Ray Ventura

Produsent, Skuespiller, Komponist, Manusforfatter

16. april 1908 — 29. mars 1979 (70 år)
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.

Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Kjent for

  • Love Is My Profession
    Love Is My Profession1958
  • We Will All Go to Monte Carlo
    We Will All Go to Monte Carlo1951
  • French Touch
    French Touch1952
  • Plucking the Daisy
    Plucking the Daisy1956
  • Captain Fracasse
    Captain Fracasse1961
  • Without Leaving an Address
    Without Leaving an Address1951
  • Lovers' Net
    Lovers' Net1955
  • We Will All Go to Paris
    We Will All Go to Paris1950
  • We Will Go to Deauville
    We Will Go to Deauville1962
  • Je suis un sentimental
    Je suis un sentimental1955
  • 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
  • Stop Train 349
    Stop Train 3491963
  • The Murderer Knows the Score
    The Murderer Knows the Score1963
  • Companions of the Night
    Companions of the Night1953
  • Our Men in Bagdad
    Our Men in Bagdad1966
  • Where Are You From, Johnny?
    Where Are You From, Johnny?1963
  • Le crâneur
    Le crâneur1955

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