Fred Adison
Albert Lapeyrère, better known as Fred Adison (September 15, 1908, BordeauxAugust 25, 1996, Nice), was a French jazz and light music vocalist, drummer, and bandleader. He studied piano and violin before switching to drums. This troupe toured France and based itself in Paris in 1931, where it scored silent short films by Charlie Chaplin and others.
Fred Adison
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- Name
- Fred Adison
- Birth Name
- Albert Henri Lapeyrère
- Born
- 15 September 1908
- Birthplace
- Bordeaux, France
- Died
- 25 August 1996
- Occupation
- * Conductor
- Full name
- Albert Henri Lapeyrère.
- Nationality
- France.
- Fields
- jazz.
- Languages
- French.
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Albert Lapeyrère, better known as Fred Adison (September 15, 1908, BordeauxAugust 25, 1996, Nice), was a French jazz and light music vocalist, drummer, and bandleader. He studied piano and violin before switching to drums. This troupe toured France and based itself in Paris in 1931, where it scored silent short films by Charlie Chaplin and others.
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Alongside the orchestras of Ray Ventura and Jacques Hélian, Adison's band (often billed as Fred Adison and His Collegians) was one of the principal French backing groups for singers and films in the 1930s. Adison also recorded copiously, and released many 78 rpm commercial recordings during this time. After the onset of World War II, he toured with Django Reinhardt in September–October 1940, and continued writing music for film. He was imprisoned in a Nazi war camp in 1943. Following the war, he led a new big band. In 1952, Charles Spiessert, owner of Cirque Pinder, hired Fred Adison to conduct the circus orchestra, a position he held until 1962. He accompanied Luis Mariano and Gloria Lasso during this time and recorded several albums of circus music. Following this, Adison went into semi-retirement, occasionally playing with small ensembles and dance orchestras on television.
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• Name — Fred Adison • Birth Name — Albert Henri Lapeyrère • Born — 15 September 1908 • Birthplace — Bordeaux, France • Died — 25 August 1996 • Citizenship — French • Occupation — * Conductor • composer • singer
Filmography
Filmography
• À nous deux, madame la vie (1937) • Kora Terry (1940) • Le Studio en folie (1946) • Dinner for Two (1947)
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- 1.Archives de la commune de Bordeaux, section 3, acte de naissance , année 1908 (page 179/256) (avec mention marginale de décès)
- 2.Fred Adison et son Orchestre. data.bnf.fr.
- 3.Décès de Fred Adison. L'Humanité. 1996-08-28.
- 4.Guerre 1939-1945. Réception donnée en l'honneur d'un retour. Galerie Roger-Viollet.
- 5.Fred Adison - Biographie. www.dutempsdescerisesauxfeuillesmortes.net.
- 6.Pinder en Touraine. chez-alice.fr.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- Les grands orchestres de music-hall en France : souvenirs et témoignages. Filipacchi. 1984. 2850184918.
- Cent ans de chanson française. Éditions du Seuil. 1981. 978-2-0200-2915-5.
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