.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.