André Ekyan
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Emerging from Meudon, France, André Ekyan honed his craft as a reedist and quickly became a central figure in Paris’s jazz scene, directing a house band at the Le Perroquet club toward the end of the 1920s. Throughout the 1930s he expanded his reputation by performing with prominent leaders such as Jack Hylton, Gregor and Tommy Dorsey, while maintaining a multi-year recording partnership with the…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
