Swing Parade, based in Nice, has been performing regularly for
the last ten years on the French Riviera's most famous jazz scenes,
away from the traditional media circle.
Its reputation was built from the early beginning, at private parties, popular march (New Orleans Styles) and reached new heights with performances at prestigious jazz festivals such as Nice, Juan Les Pins, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Nuremberg, and TV appearances in France, Canada, Germany and Switzerland.
Against all the fashions, and "trends", the seven members of the group are building, without any complex, all their repertoire, solely, on Louis Armstrong and Sydney Bechet's music.
Success happens wherever they play, and the title of last album that the members this "endangered specie" has produced "Swing that Music" is also their motto.
On this album, they play their own arrangements on standards such as: "Washboard wiggles, Dream a little dream, Georgia cabin, Moulin à café, That's a plenty, Ory's Creole trombone, Bye bye blues, Cornet Shop suey, West End Blues, Suey, When it's sleepy time down south".
For your concerts, Ceremonies, Private Parties, cocktails, the
musicians (sax, trumpet, trombone, banjo/guitar, piano, bass,
drums), will perform the biggest success of Louis Armstrong and
Sydney Bechet, as well as New Orleans Standards (Petite
Fleur, Dans les rues d'Antibes,
Hello Dolly, etc…)
For marketing or sports shows, fairs, inaugurations, the musicians
(soprano sax, trumpet, trombone, banjo, Soubassophone, drum),
specialists of New Orleans March will entertain your guests in
a joyful spirit.
Our repertory consists of at least 200 titles. There is a strong likelyhood that you will find in it some of your favourites. To help you pick the numbers you would like to hear us play here below is a selected list of some of the more popular tunes.
After you’ve gone, Ain’t she sweet, Alexander’s ragtime band, All of me, As-tu le cafard, At the Jazz band ball, Autumn leaves (les feuilles mortes), Basin street blues, Bill Bailey, Black bottom, Blueberry hill, Blues march, Blue Moon, Bourbon street parade, Bye bye blackbird, Caravan, Careless love, C’est si bon, Charleston, Chicago, China boy, Chinatown, Christopher Colombus, les Copains d’abord, Dans les rues d’Antibes, Doctor Jazz, Down by the riverside, Do you know what it means to miss New-Orleans, Etoile des neiges, Everybody loves my baby, Franky and Johnny, Georgia on my mind, Hallelujah, Hello Dolly, High society, Honeysuckle rose, I can’t give you anything but love, Indiana, In the mood, It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing, It’s a long way to Tipperary, Jada, Jingle bells (vive le vent), Jazz me blue, Just a closer walk with Thee, a Kiss to build a dream on (pub Sony), Lady be good, La vie en rose, Le marchand de poissons, Les oignons, Lullaby of Birdland, Mack the knife, Madame Becassine, Margie, Maryland my Maryland, Mood indigo, Moonlight serenade, Moulin a café, Muskrat ramble, My man (c’est mon homme), Night and day, Night train, Nobody knows the trouble I have seen, Nobody knows you when you’re down and out (le millionnaire), On the sunny side of the street, Over the rainbow, Passport to paradise, Peanut vendor, Petite fleur, the Preacher, Premier bal, Promenade aux Champs-Elysées, Que reste-t-il de nos amours, Rose de picardie, Rosetta, Royal garden blues, Saint James infirmary, Saint Louis blues, September song, the Sheik of Araby, Si tu vois ma mère, Struttin' with some barnecue, Summertime, Swanee, Swanee river, Sweet Georgia Brown, Swing low sweet chariot, Take the A train, Them their eyes, Tiger rag, Watermelon man, What a wonderful world, When it’s sleepy time down south, When the saints go marching in, When you are smiling, Whispering (ah si j’avais un franc cinquante), Who’s sorry now, Work song (Sing-Sing), Yes sir that’s my baby, You rascal you (vieille canaille)... etc…etc…
Please note the musicians in the band will be happy to play any requested tune not featured, in the above list, in the typical New Orleans idiom.
Frédéric D'HULSTER (trumpet)
Born in 1966 in Nice, enters National Academy of Music at an early age and quickly gains recognition in trumpet and cornet playing as well as harmony, fugue, counterpoint and style. Starts playing jazz with the Academy Big Band then studies musicology at University and obtains a master. Gains experience as a player with the following orchestras, Be Bop quintet, varieties bands, classical baroque duets, traditional folk music (with wich he tours the world) and concerts with the Nice and Monte Carlo Philharmonic, writes and arranges music for theatre and modern ballet (notably for the american choreographer Suzan Buirge).
Gérard BREAUDAT (soprano and alto saxophone)
Born in 1943 Aube, starts his career at the early age of 13 with his first band and plays for the dances of his region. Follows tuition in Troyes from '58 to '61. A long time fan of Sidney Bechet and the soprano sax, he starts a successful jazz band wich reaches national radio fame and plays in all the major parisian jazz clubs in the early sixties. Moves to Nice, sets up a new band and has since featured in all the main festivals and venues.
Didier HUSSENOT (slide trombone and piano)
A parisian born in 1943, studies classical piano and harmony at the famed National Paris Conservatory and after obtaining a prize starts cabaret work and clubdates with singers. Later discovers the trombone and after tuition with a known jazz player works in Paris with various band notably the well known "Haricots rouges". Becomes vice-president of the "Jazz Club de France" and starts a new band called the "Coroco Steel Band" wich accompanies the likes of Bill Coleman, M. Saury, M. Zanini. Moved to Nice where he has since worked with several local bands on club dates and festivals.
Louis MONTAGNE (banjo and guitar)
Born in Nice in1933 from a family of musicians, starts mandolin playing with master Chiarabelli and leads the Mandolin Society of Nice for several years with wich he gives many performances in and around the county. Discovers guitar playing on the radio from Django Reinhart and the famous Freddy Green of the Basie Big Band. He soon starts playing rythm guitar for the various local bands and then switches to traditional four-strings banjo in later years, to fulfill his old dream of playing dixieland and New Orleans music in a Brass Band.
Daniel CHAUVET (double bass and sousaphone)
Born in 1945, starts playing guitar at an early age and the electric bass on an american forces base in Evreux with their band. Between 1970 and 1980 he works with Bill Coleman on tour in Morroco where he studies stand-up bass and works with ethnic groups. Moves back to Rouen where he starts a band and plays most venues between there and Paris. Moves to the Riviera where he joins a local band and is a regularhouse-musician for the after-hours jam-sessions of the jazz-festival hotels in Juan les Pins where he meets and plays with most of the big names. Learns the sousaphone and starts playing with the local dixiebands.
Stefan MAY (piano)
Born in 1936, he grew up in a musicians family, learn the piano and the organ (first organ concert at the age of 15). Pianist at the Raoul Breton Editions, he worked with Charles Aznavour, Gilbert Bécaud, Charles Trénet and Henri Salvador, playing with all the cabaret singers at the "Galerie 55", "Le port du salut" and "Chez Suzy Solidor" and fall in love with the "New Orleans" jazz style. Now, he teaches piano, gives jazz and chamber music concerts.
Marc ANDREIS (Drums)
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