Louis de Vries

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Levie "Louis" de Vries
Birth nameLevie de Vries
Born(1905-01-06)January 6, 1905
Groningen, Netherlands.
DiedSeptember 5, 1935(1935-09-05) (aged 30)
Zwolle, Netherlands.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Jazz Musician
  • Trumpeter
InstrumentsTrumpet
Years activeuntil 1935
Wall painting by Leo Mineur, after a drawing by Peter Pontiac.

Levie "Louis" de Vries (January 5, 1905, Groningen - September 5, 1935, Zwolle) was a Dutch jazz trumpeter.[1][2]

Louis de Vries was the eldest son of amateur trumpeter Arend de Vries. Just like his brothers Jacob (1906-1976) and Izaac and his sister Clara Johanna Suzanna, Louis was taught to play the trumpet by his father. He played as a teenager with the Tuschinski Theatre Orchestra. This was an orchestra which played music during silent films shown in the famous Tuschinski movie theater in Amsterdam until the Nazi occupation 1940-1945. Owner and managing director was Abraham Tuschinski.

In the second half of the 1920s Louis de Vries worked with the , Marek Weber and The Ramblers together with his brother Jacob. In 1930 he played with Ben Berlin and in 1931-1932 with . From 1933 onwards he worked with his brother once more, almost up until his death. In 1935 he played with Valaida Snow in England. On his way to a concert in Groningen on 31 August 1935, he got involved in a car accident as a result of which he died on 5 September 1935.

His sister Clara Johanna Suzanna de Vries (Schoonhoven, 31 December 1915 - Auschwitz, 22 October 1942) was a well-known Dutch jazz trumpeter and from 1938 onwards until her death in 1942 the bandleader of an all-women jazz band, The Rosian Ladies.[3][4][5][6]

After a visit to the Netherlands, Louis Armstrong remarked: "That Louis de Vries, he had a sister Clara with a ladies-band. Oh boy, she could play that horn".[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ https://www.jazzhelden.nl/action/front/history?start=1920
  2. ^ http://www.r-jam.nl/portfolio/louis-de-vries-door-peter-pontiac/
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Chiel Zwinkels, Vries, Clara de, in: Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, 18/02/2015
  4. ^ H. Langeweg, ‘Clara de Vries’, Doctor Jazz Magazine (april 1975) 25-29.
  5. ^ Clara Johanna Suzanna de Vries, Jewish Monument
  6. ^ Clara de Vries, Jewish Cultural Heritage Rotterdam.

References[]

  • Wim van Eyle, "Louis de Vries". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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