André Ekyan
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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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
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
Frequent collaborators
- Django Reinhardt
- Various
- Coleman Hawkins
- Django
- Hawkins
- André Ekyan Son Saxo Et Ses Cordes
- Coleman Hawkins All Stars
- Django Et Compagnie