Raymond Droz (January 23, 1934,
La Chaux-De-Fonds - June 29, 2000,
Zurich) was a Swiss
jazz trombonist, arranger, and bandleader.
Droz won first prize at the first Zurich Jazz Festival in 1951 as a trombonist. In the next few years he played with
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and with his own
Dixieland jazz band, and in 1956-1957 worked in
Lausanne as a radio technician. He toured with his own bands, which included as sidemen
Charly Antolini,
Jean-Pierre Bionda,
Raymond Court
Raymond Court (born December 2, 1932, Lausanne) is a Swiss jazz trumpeter.
Court began playing trumpet late in his teens and by age 20 was playing in Raymond Droz's band (1952-1956). He played later in the 1950s with Flavio Ambrosetti and Kurt Wei ...
, and
Pierre Favre. Between 1958 and 1964 he was a member of the orchestra of
Kurt Edelhagen in
Cologne, then became the first trombonist to be part of the radio entertainment orchestra of
Schweizer Radio DRS, where he contributed many arrangements and compositions. He also arranged for the
Ted Haenzi Big Band. He performed with
Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
He played with Charlie Barnet (1947), Count Basie (1948–51), Duke ...
at the Montreux Jazz Festival and in Switzerland with small ensembles. In 1985, he resigned from the DRS orchestra after health problems, but still played occasional sessions. He also worked with
Heinz Kretzschmar
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(1960),
Bill Ramsey (1965),
Buck Clayton (1966),
Rex Stewart (1966),
Othella Dallas
Othella Dallas (September26, 1925 November28, 2020) was an American dancer and jazz singer. After working in Paris and Zurich, she opened a dance school in Basel's Gundeldingen quarter in 1975, where she taught the Dunham technique.
Life and ca ...
(1967),
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(1979) and
New Zurich Jazztett
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(1981).
References
*"Raymond Droz". ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.
Barry Kernfeld
Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians.
Education
In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U ...
.
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1934 births
2000 deaths
Swiss jazz trombonists
Swiss jazz bandleaders
20th-century trombonists