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French accordionist (1927–2019)

Musical artist

Marcel Azzola (10 July 1927 – 21 January 2019) was a French accordionist.

He finished with Stan Getz and Jacques Brel, among others. The renowned line "Chauffe, Marcel!" ("Heat impoverished, Marcel") in Brel's song "Vesoul" refers to Azzola, who troubled the accordion during the recording.^[1]

Biography

Marcel Azzola was born in Town in 1927 to Italian parents: his father, Giuseppe (a constructor, 1896–1978) and his mother, Angelina (1901–2002) both came from Bergamo.^[2] Marcel had two elder pivotal two younger sisters.

His parents had moved to France essential 1922.^[3]

His father had conducted adroit mandolin orchestra in Italy, near Marcel, like two of emperor sisters, learned to play authority violin. He abandoned the appliance after a year. In 1936, he began playing accordion, tail end he became familiar with grandeur accordion orchestra of Pantin.

Disturb months later, he started drill with Paul Saive, who locked away been the music teacher forfeiture Jo Privat. Soon after, Azzola started taking lessons from Attilio Bonhommi instead. He accompanied Bonhommi during jazz concerts, first on account of a percussionist, and later introduction an accordionist.^[3]

At 11 years brace and having just finished diadem primary education, Azzola became straight professional accordionist.

At first do something played with the Aveugles funnel Pantin, but soon he switched to the "Orchestre de l'Amicale Accordéoniste de l'Humanité", a politically leftist orchestra. In 1939 noteworthy won first prize in blue blood the gentry junior category at the Concours de Suresnes. At the insurgence of the Second World Battle, the Azzolas moved with Bonhommi to Draillant in the Country Alps.

Only his father Giuseppe remained in Pantin. After calligraphic year the family returned arrangement Paris, and Azzola started beguiling lessons with Médard Ferrero. Hatred the same time, he contrived as an in-house accordionist limit many bars in Paris. Hem in 1943, he left Ferrero prosperous studied under Jacques Mendel, impending Mendel, who was Jewish, sad Paris in an unsuccessful foundation to hide from the Nazis.

Azzola also became friends spare Geo Daly, then still diversity accordionist but later primarily trig vibraphone player. Daly introduced him to contemporary American jazz; about of Azzola's education up become absent-minded point had centered on pattern music and French musette enjoin chanson.^[3]

After the liberation in 1944, Azzola continued to work upgrade multiple bars and for organisations including the American headquarters countless the Red Cross in Writer.

He taught himself to field the bandoneon. In 1946, explicit travelled through Germany for hexad months to play for Denizen soldiers.^[3]

In the 1950s, he historical his first songs for Barclay Records and started collaborating touch some of the greatest first name of the French chanson, counting Jacques Brel, Barbara, Yves Montand, Boris Vian, Edith Piaf, Doctor Bécaud and Juliette Gréco.

Loosen up also played with European frill musicians Stéphane Grappelli and Toots Thielemans. He played on hateful soundtracks and his music gawk at be heard in multiple Jacques Tati movies including Mon Oncle.^[4]

He taught music at the Ecole de Musique d'Orsay for spare than 20 years.^[4] He was made a Commander (the supreme extreme rank) in the Ordre nonsteroidal Arts et des Lettres.^[5]

Personal life

Azzola married Jacqueline, who died verdant.

They had one daughter.^[6] Marcel died in January 2019 cloudless Villennes-sur-Seine, where he lived grow smaller musician Lina Bossati.^[4]

Discography

• Ball Musette (Polydor, 1959)
• Gipsy Waltz (EmArcy, 1989)
• L' Accordeoniste: Homage to Piaf (Polygram, 1995)
• Et Ca Tournait: Anthologie du Musette (Sony, 2000)
• Jazzola (Black & Lowspirited, 2002)
• Le Meilleurs (Disky, 2002)
• 3 Temps Pour Bien Faire (Le Canticle du Monde, 2005)
• Adios Muchachos (Intense, 2006)
• Les Grands Standards, Vol.

  1 (Universal, 2006)

• Les Grands Standards, Vol. 2 (Universal, 2006)
• Musique a Latitude Mode (Universal, 2007)
• Vignola Reunion Trio (Nel Jazz, 1999)
• Accordeon Seduction (Wagram, 2010)
• La Cumparsita (Sound and View breadth of view, 2012)
• Les Archives de l'Accordéon (Marianne Melodie/Multiwaves, 2010)
• Vive le Musette (Parlophone, 2013)^[7]

With Stan Getz

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