Ray Ventura
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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Fotos
Filme (29)
It's All Brazil
1997 · Self
Night Fun
1992 · Producer
Our Men in Bagdad
1966 · Producer
L'assassin connaît la musique...
1963 · Self (uncredited), Producer
We Will Go to Deauville
1962 · Music
And Satan Calls the Turns
1962 · Producer
Love Is My Profession
1958 · Producer
Forgive Our Trespasses
1956 · Producer
Plucking the Daisy
1956 · Producer
Le Crâneur
1955 · Producer
Lovers' Net
1955 · Producer
Companions of the Night
1953 · Producer
Femmes de Paris
1953 · Self
One Hundred Francs Per Second
1953 · Self
Desperate Decision
1952 · Producer
French Touch
1952 · Producer
Monte Carlo Baby
1951 · Ray Ventura, Producer
Without Leaving an Address
1951 · Producer
Le Roi Pandore
1950 · Producer
We Will All Go to Paris
1950 · Self, Producer
Une femme par jour
1949 · Producer
Mademoiselle Has Fun
1948 · Self
Whirlwind of Paris
1939 · Self
Feux de joie
1939 · Self
Beautiful Star
1938 · Orchestrator
Quadrille
1938 · Lui-même (as « Ray Ventura et ses collégiens »), Orchestrator
Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
1936
Adventure in Paris
1936
Le Billet de mille
1935 · Musician
