INGRID JENSEN
Ingrid Jensen has been hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation. As a sought-out teacher, collaborator, and soloist, it is easy to see why the New York Times calls her “as versatile as she is vigorous.”
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AL STRONG
Summer Jazz Jam curated by trumpeter Al Strong in the cocktail bar and lounge.
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Jørgen Ryg was born on August 11, 1927 in Copenhagen, Denmark and was the son of the opera singer and barber Evald Asger Ryg Kristiansen and the pianist Ellen Kirstine Ryg.
Over the course of his career Jørgen recorded several jazz albums but is best known for his comical monologues on stage. He appeared in 37 films between 1954 and 1978. He won the Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as adjutant Mühlhauser in Lenin, You Rascal, You.
Ryg was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1979. He was declared healthy the following year, but suffered a severe relapse when he appeared in the Tivoli revue in the summer of 1981. He collapsed with a bleeding stomach ulcer and had to give up work for the rest of the season.
Trumpeter, composer, comedian and actor Jørgen Ryg, was admitted to the Finsensinstituttet in Copenhagen and died on August 28, 1981 at the age of 54.
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Robert De Kers was born Robert De Keersmaeker on August 10, 1906 in Antwerp, Belgium. He learned to play piano as a child, and began playing jazz with local musicians while in his teens. He was the pianist for the Bing Boys in 1924-1925, then picked up trumpet.
As a trumpeter Robert toured Italy with the Jeff Candrix Band, brother of Fud Candrix, and played there with Carlo Benzi and David Bee’s Red Beans. Later in the 1920s he was associated with Harry Flemming and Josephine Baker.
The 1930s saw him working with Jean Robert and Jean Omer in addition to leading his own ensemble, the Cabaret Kings, which toured Europe. He continued recording into the 1950s, also working as an arranger and composer; he led bands in the United States, and Germany following World War II and was later head of the Wurlitzer Company’s Belgian operations.
Trumpeter and bandleader Robert De Kers died on January 16, 1987 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Peter Packay was born Pierre Paquet on August 8, 1904 in Brussels, Belgium and lived with his family in China for part of his childhood, but returned to Belgium in 1912. As a teenager he was crippled in one arm by an accident, but decided to learn to play trumpet anyway at age 20, joining the Varsity Ramblers.
He co-founded a band called Red Beans with David Bee and served as its principal composer of originals. Bee left the group and was replaced by Robert De Kers, and Packay remained its leader until its dissolution in 1929. In the 1930s he formed another group, Packay’s Swing Academy, which played with Coleman Hawkins among others. He also did arrangements for bandleader Billy Arnold.
As a composer, Packay’s works included Alabama Mamma, The Blue Duke, Dixie Melody, and Lullaby for a Mexican Alligator. Following World War II he gave up performance to concentrate on composition and arrangement for songs like Jazz in the Rain, One Day and Grey Skys.
Trumpeter, arranger, and composer Peter Packay died on December 26, 1965 in Westende, Flanders, Belgium.
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