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André Ekyan
André Ekyan is credited on 267 releases across 66 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
267
Pressings credited
66
Albums
7
Decades active
11
In collections
Biography
André Ekyan (born André Echkyan; October 24, 1907, Meudon - August 1972, Alicante, Spain) was a French jazz reedist. Ekyan was the leader of a jazz ensemble at the club Le Perroquet in Paris late in the 1920s. in the 1930s, he played with Jack Hylton, Gregor, and Tommy Dorsey, and recorded with Django Reinhardt for several years. Other associations include work with Tommy Benford, Jacques Butler, Benny Carter, Frank Goudie, Coleman Hawkins, Mezz Mezzrow, Bobby Nichols, Joe Turner, and Ray Ventura.
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Credited work
267 releases · 66 albums · active 1951–2019
- Performance · 844
- Other credits · 18
Studios: Parelies Audio Visuel · Chicago Civic Opera House · Théâtre Edouard VII, Paris · Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Volume 3
1958
The Django Reinhardt Anthology
2009
Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934-53
2003
Jazz Masters Of The Sax
1983
Django's Music
1974
Djangologie 19
1971
Newly Discovered Masters
1960
In Memoriam 1908-1954
1955
Django Reinhardt
1953
Djangologie 18 (1949-1950)
The Hawk In Europe: 1934-1937
1988
Volume 3 "Inédits"
1972
Django Reinhardt 2
1955
Frequent collaborators
- Django Reinhardt
- Various
- Coleman Hawkins
- Django
- Hawkins
- André Ekyan Son Saxo Et Ses Cordes
- Coleman Hawkins All Stars
- Django Et Compagnie
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