Search - Artist/Band: Raymond Fol

• Name: Raymond Fol
• Birthday: 04/28/1928
• Birth Place: Paris, France
• Died: 05/01/1979
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Bop

Title	Release
Echoes of Harlem	05/01/2007
Jazz in Paris: Echoes of Harlem	2007
Jazz in Paris: Les Four Saisons	07/16/2002

Along with his brother Hubert, French pianist Raymond Fol made significant contribution to European jazz in the '50s,'60s and '70s. He started playing traditional jazz in a band with his brother and Boris Vian from 1945 to 1947. The Fols also played in The Be Bop Ministrels for two years, after which Raymond Fol worked with Jean-Claude Fohrenbach and then Django Reinhardt from 1949-1951. He recorded with Reinhardt the next year. Fol also recorded and played with Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges, Dizzy Gillespie, Sidney Bechet, Guy Lfitte and Stephane Grappelli in the '50s and '60s. He toured Europe with Gillespie in 1952. Fol played in Rome for a year in 1958, and led a trio at the Mars Club in Paris in 1961, occasionally doubling on celesta. He was a guest soloist with the Ellington orchestra in 1969 and 1974, and worked with Ellingtonians Paul Gonsalves in 1970 and Cat Anderson in 1977. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide