.DEL'S JAZZ BIGUINE BONUS.

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78rpm RITMO n°17

.ORCHESTRE DEL'S JAZZ BIGUINE.

°MANGOZO° °MADININA°

Dirigé par Eugène Delouche

source: http://listentoyourears.blogspot.com


In 1931’s Paris, Eugène Delouche, a clarinettist born in Martinique in 1909, was Stellio’s equal in spreading the beguine.
After World War II he founded RITMO, the label on which he recorded his own 78’s, giving free rein to his creative imagination in jazz and the music of the Caribbean. 

Jean-Pierre MEUNIER

While my researches into 78 rpm, I once found this very graphic and beautiful red sleeve from an old and obscure label called Ritmo. You probably remember of it as I used it for the artwork of the namesake 'Ritmo' compilation.
On this same cover was wrote in French 'The most tipical French West-Indies orchestras are recording on Ritmo'. As I had never heard about it before, this was  enough to really excite my curiousity.

I unfortunately didn't find any record from the label until last week when, travelling into the great blog Listen To Your Ears owned by Yoyo, I came across this doubly interesting post ! First I was finally able to discover some productions from this label, and moreover the artist released was the Del's Jazz Biguine, orchestra wich I had already found another record, an exellent Biguine-Jazz on 78 rpm also. This one has been compiled in the 'Dirty Caribbean Jazz vol°02'.

As It was making a lot of sense to share this record here, Yoyo allowed me to post it.
So check 'Mangozo' and 'Madinina', both sides of this fantastic early 50s 78 rpm recording where figured David Martial at his very beginning.

'MANGOZO' (Samba) / RIT. 140

(L.P. d'Inez)
Guitare Solo: Don Baretto

Orch: Del's Jazz Biguine
Direction: Eugène Delouche
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'MADININA' (Biguine) / RIT. 137

(Delouche - Boislaville)
Chantée par: David Martial
Guitare Solo: Don Baretto
Orch: Del's Jazz Biguine
Direction: Eugène Delouche
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EUGÈNE DELOUCHE (1909-1975)

Eugène Passion Delouche was born on March 28, 1909 in the town of Marigot (formerly Fonds d’Or). He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Fort-de-France and began working as a drawer with his father, architect in Martinique.

Very young, he has the love of music and learned the violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra "L'Aurore" directed by Daniel Danjou. But he soon adopted the clarinet after hearing Stellio who became his model. When this one is going to Paris in late April 1929, Delouche succeeded him at the Cinema Gaumont of Fort-de-France. And it is then Stellio who will brings him to Paris in October 1931 to take his place for one year at La Boule Blanche. Delouche then played in Tunisia and then in Rome.

In 1935, he is in Martinique for the Tricentenary festivities. Back in Paris in late 1935, he started the saxophone and get interested in jazz without abandoning the beguine. During the war, alongside the music, he worked as a specialized worker in a famous organ builder. He restarted his work as a musician full time after the Liberation.

In 1951, Eugene Delouche creates RITMO, his own 78 rpm record label. He is again in the West Indies for 1953s Carnival. At his death in Paris on August 9, 1975, at the age of 66 years, he worked as a taxi driver.

Eugène Delouche left us a rich phonographic production, spread from 1932 to 1953, comparable in importance to Stellio's one. With his band "Del's Jazz Biguine", including the guitarist Pollo Malahel and the pianist from Martinique René Leopold, he recorded some pure gems of the Beguine. It is also the composer of many masterpieces of the West Indian valse, which he had made a specialty.

.LES MAINS NOIRES FINISH #1st !.

I've been glad, happy and very honored to learn yesterday that I finish first of the 'Wax On Film' photo contest organized by Jamison Harvey of Flea Market Funk and Eilon Paz of the acclaimed vinyl documentary photo site Dust & Grooves.

This picture represent Hephaestus wich, in Greek mythology, is the god of fire, forges and volcanoes but also an divine inventor and a creator of magic items. Film photography realised at home, in 2008, with Long Exposure & Superposition techniques.

Many thanks to them and to the judges for this great opportunity to show part of my work !

This pictures has been used in September 2009 to illustrate the 'Press It' compilation about HipHop never released on Vinyl. If not done yet, have a listen here !

Y12W13 .ORCHESTRE LÉARDÉE DU CÉLÈBRE BAL COLONIAL DE LA RUE BLOMET - EDAMYSO

The most of you probably already know and remember this great song from Lola Martin compiled by Hugo Mendez (Sofrito-UK) in the great compilation 'Tumbélé' released on SoundWay Records.
Here is the 1st version composed and played by Ernest Léardée and his orchestra in November 1930 in Paris, and released the same year on Salabert record.

Deep, sensitive and touching document from the very beginning of the French Caribbean music in Paris, this fantastic part of the patrimony has been compiled by the over interesting label 'Frémeaux & Associés' on a double cd only.

Check 'Edamiso'

extract from 'Biguine, Valse et Mazurka Creoles (1930-1943) Vol 2'

ERNEST LÉARDÉE (1896-1988)

From the little people of Fort-de-France, Ernest Léardée lost his mother at age of 6 and his father at 9 years old. He was raised by his sister Yaya and start practicing very early all kinds of small jobs. A carpenter, Marius Collat​​, introduced him to music and taught him the violin. The boy is not long to accompany him in the ball of Martinique. Léardée became an apprentice hairdresser while continuing to play the violin in the orchestra of Leon Apanon. He soon earns enough money to start on his own.

In 1919, Stellio comes from Guyana and hired him to play with him at the Gaumont Cinema in Fort-de-France. In April 1929, is the departure for Paris. But Léardée soon left Stellio to form his own orchestra Bal Blomet. He records his first records in 1930 on Salabert. He then abandoned the violin to start playing clarinet and tenor saxophone. He opens successively several cabarets in Paris (l’Élan Noir, le Mirage…).

In February 1938 he went on tour in Germany, Austria and Hungary. In May 1940 he is in Lille when the Germans invaded France. He retired in the Yonne department during the four years of Occupation. From the Liberation Ernest Léardée restarts his musical activity as a conductor in numerous Parisian cabarets, dance halls of the Marne, Province's balls, beach resorts in the summer...

In the '50s and '60s, he participates in the new vogue for Cuban and Latin American rhythms: Cha cha cha, Mambo, Baïon, Samba, Guaracha, Rampa ... which he recorded several records. He retired in 1970 at Fontenay-sous-Bois, where he died in April 1988. Ernest Léardée also led a casino in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, he founded a music publishing, he is the interpreter of a television commercial for a brand of rice, and left to SACEM more than three hundred compositions.

Don't forget to check out Frémeaux's official website by clicking on the above logo and to support contemporary music by buying records !

054° .SALSITA CON SWING. selected and mixed by PHILIPPE NOEL

 

Insatiable globetrotter, dj, digger and owner of the great blog Canicule Tropicale,
Philippe Noël kindly sent me from his hometown Montreal a impeccable mix of Latin records he
collected while several trips around the planet.



Here are an hour that will delight Salseros as much as music lovers.


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orquesta carnaval swing - descarga colombiana
ray barretto - swing la moderna
sexteto miramar - serrana
los bravo - se fundio el bombillo
los yogas - coco may may
rafa y su combo - san jose
ray perez - descarga en la septima
ray barretto - ska cha
la pesada - cumbia y tambo
los univox - cumbia del pescador
fredy y sus afros - magdalena
los platinos - aquarius
ray perez - adios
sexteto miramar - a las seis
ray perez - el pescador
conjunto miramar - tuyo soy
rafa y su combo - vete
sexteto miramar - miramar descargando
los latinos - humo dorado

Please don't forget to have a look and a listen to Philippe's great blog HERE ! !!