PAUL VERNON CHESTER

Manouche Maestro

Louis 'Loulou' Gaste

September 9, 1937 ~ Swing, Paris
Django Reinhardt (g solo)
acc. by Louis Gaste (g); Eugène d'Helemmes (b)
St-Louis Blues
Boucin' Around

During his adolescence, Louis Gasté discovered jazz recently imported into France by American troops at the end of the first world war. He also learned the banjo and in 1929 he became one of the first professional musicians with the Ray Ventura's Orchestra - His Collegians as Banjoist/Guitarist. Ray Ventura played a significant role in popularizing jazz in France in the 1930s but fled the Nazi's Jewish persecution in 1941 to Brazil.

Loulou Gasté, Jerry Mengo, Louis Vola, Philip Brun

Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/composer (Doggy in the Window), died aged 88

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