Ray Ventura

Productor, Actor, Compositor, Escritor

16 de abril de 1908 — 29 de marzo de 1979 (70 años)
Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel.

Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade.

One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war.

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  • En caso de desgracia
    En caso de desgracia1958
  • Deshojando la margarita
    Deshojando la margarita1956
  • Americanos en Montecarlo
    Americanos en Montecarlo1951
  • French Touch
    French Touch1952
  • El capitán Fracassa
    El capitán Fracassa1961
  • Without Leaving an Address
    Without Leaving an Address1951
  • Iremos a París
    Iremos a París1950
  • We Will Go to Deauville
    We Will Go to Deauville1962
  • Manos asesinas
    Manos asesinas1955
  • Los amantes del río Tajo
    Los amantes del río Tajo1955
  • And Satan Calls the Turns
    And Satan Calls the Turns1962
  • Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
    Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!1961
  • Beast at Bay
    Beast at Bay1959
  • Le roi Pandore
    Le roi Pandore1950
  • The Murderer Knows the Score
    The Murderer Knows the Score1963
  • El juego de los espías
    El juego de los espías1966
  • Where Are You From, Johnny?
    Where Are You From, Johnny?1963
  • Le crâneur
    Le crâneur1955
  • Companions of the Night
    Companions of the Night1953
  • Mademoiselle Has Fun
    Mademoiselle Has Fun1948

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