{"id":1637,"date":"2022-06-05T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meta-sillon.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2022-06-05T15:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T15:02:50","slug":"georges-sellers-and-le-jazz-marseillais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meta-sillon.com\/?p=1637&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Georges Sellers and “Le Jazz Marseillais”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Georges Sellers (1907-1987, real name Germain Blanc) was a french multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, arranger and bandleader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of Marseilles origin<\/strong>, he played and orchestrated several operettas of the interwar years, and he led and played the accordion in his band “le Jazz Marseillais”. He is noted for working with Vincent Scotto<\/strong> on his operettas from Marseilles. He was the conductor of the scores for the films of Marcel Pagnol<\/strong>. In occupied France, Georges Sellers led the big operetta hits at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/strong>, then in the 1950’s with his orchestra in various venues in Paris and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georges Sellers has recorded a lot of music, in particular for the HMV\/Gramophone record label in the 1930’s. Here we are presenting an extract from a piece from the operetta “Marseille, mes amours” composed by Sellers in 1938. This track is performed by Marcel V\u00e9ran (vocal) and the band “Le Jazz Marseillais”<\/strong>. Another version of this piece, with other performers, can be found on the compilation “Vive les op\u00e9rettes marseillaises, 110 refrains populaires de Vincent Scotto et Georges Sellers (1930-1945)”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Musically, it is a sung tango played by a small dance orchestra. Of particular interest is the presence of the accordion, which plays the role of a bridge between the traditional bandoneon of the tango and the popular french accordion, which Georges Sellers himself played expertly. Was he the accordion player on this side? We shall probably never know…<\/p>\n\n\n\n