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Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens
(Ray Ventura et ses Collegiens)
Active from 1928 to the mid-1960s, the Ray Ventura et Ses Collégiens orchestra
imported jazz to France, subtly combining it with chanson, thanks to its
songwriters, composers, orchestrators, musicians and singers, who brought us
standards such as "Tout va très bien madame la marquise" and "Qu'est-ce qu'on
attend pour être heureux? Born in Paris on April 16, 1908, pianist Raymond
Ventura was twenty years old when he founded an orchestra to introduce jazz, as
practiced in the United States, to France. What began as a repertoire of mimed
songs in sketch form evolved into a more soph...
