Ray Ventura

Known for ProductionBorn 1908-04-16Died 1979-03-29Paris, France

Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris, France – 29 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel. Ventura was born to a Jewish family. In 1925 he was the pianist for the Collegiate Five, which recorded as the Collegians for Columbia beginning in 1928 and for Decca in the 1930s. A year later he led the band, and it became a dance orchestra resembling a big band. His sidemen included Alix Combelle, Philippe Brun, and Guy Paquinet. In the early 1940s he led a big band in South America and in France during the rest of the decade. One of his band's popular songs from 1936 was "Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise" in which the Marquise is told by her servants that everything is fine at home except for a series of escalating calamities. It was seen as a metaphor for France's obliviousness to the approaching war. Source: Article "Ray Ventura" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

Le Billet de mille

Cinépanorama

Whirlwind of Paris

Beautiful Star

L'assassin connaît la musique

Numéro un

Our Men in Bagdad

Femmes de Paris

French Touch

Adventure in Paris

La Chance aux chansons

Monte Carlo Baby

Night Fun

Love Is My Profession

Without Leaving an Address

Plucking the Daisy

Companions of the Night

Samedi soir

Forgive Our Trespasses

One Hundred Francs Per Second

We Will Go to Deauville

Quadrille

Le Roi Pandore

Une femme par jour

Feux de joie

Desperate Decision

We Will All Go to Paris

And Satan Calls the Turns

Le Crâneur

Mademoiselle Has Fun

Lovers' Net