Alain Romans

Alain Romans ( born January 13, 1905 in Częstochowa, † 1989 in Paris) was a native of Poland, French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader.

Alain Romans first learned violin and studied in Leipzig, Berlin and Paris; his teachers belonged to, inter alia, Vincent d' Indy. After his studies he turned to jazz, appeared in the early 1930s in Paris at the foundation of the Hot Club de France and worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt.

In 1930, he began his career as a ragtime pianist at the Cabaret Oceanic; 1931/32 he worked with André Ekyan, Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt and Alix Combelle Croix du Sud. 1935 made ​​recordings under his own name for Pathé with Arthur Briggs, Reinhardt and Michel Warlop. In the 1930s, he also played with Frank "Big Boy" Goudie; From 1935, he worked with a private orchestra. In 1938 he performed with Django Reinhardt, violinist Bela Rex and drummer Bert Marshall at Princes. In the 1940s and 1950s, he continued working with his own ensembles, including engagement with the Boeuf sur le toit. In 1954 he introduced his band Alain Romans et ses Rythmes, which existed until the early 1960s.

Besides his work as a bandleader Romans wrote music for twelve films; his most famous soundtrack for Jacques Tati's Mr. Hulot 's Holiday 1953 with the song "Quel Temps Fait- Il A Paris? ", as well as for the Tati film My Uncle (1958). His first contribution to a film he wrote in 1934 for the film Zouzou by Marc Allégret. In 1959, he worked as a film composer on the film y'en a marre by Ivan Govar with; In 1960 he wrote the music for Un couple ' by Jean -Pierre Mocky.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (excerpts ) on: Extraits the original tape of the film de Jacques Tati. Philips / Polygram undated, recorded music no. 836983-2