Actor
Ray Ventura
April 16, 1908 · Paris, France
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.
Often works with
Gaby Morlay
2 titles together
Quadrille, Le Billet de mille
Lucien Baroux
2 titles together
Adventure in Paris, Le Billet de mille
Danièle Parola
2 titles together
Adventure in Paris, Adventure in Paris
Julien Carette
2 titles together
Adventure in Paris, Le Billet de mille
Gisèle Préville
2 titles together
Adventure in Paris, Adventure in Paris
Georges Bever
2 titles together
Adventure in Paris, Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
