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Marcel Zanini
Marcel Zanini was born 1923 in France. In the early fifties Zanini (tenor-sax, …) played with Jean-Pierre Lindenmeyer, Léo Missir, Willy Molinetti, und Gilbert Gassin as a resident in the famous jazzclub “la chistera” in Marseille. In the fifties Marseille was a real mecca for french jazzfans. Hip clubs like „le Hot Club“, or „le Saint James“ and musicians like Georges Arvanitas, Robert Pettinelli, Louis Belloni, Henri Byrss, Alain Fougeret, Gaston Ménassé, Roger Luccioni and Zanini built the core of the legendary “Jazz Côte Sud”. From classic jazz to be bop and modern jazz, all stiles were included. Zanini belonged to the classical jazz spectre. During his season in New York from 1954 to 58 he was studying his idols like Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Lester Young,...
A trip in the popular genre with the french cover of Carlos Imperial’s „Ne vem que nao tem/Tu veux, tu veux pas- (also famous cover by Brigitte Bardot)“ in 1970 proved to be his big break. With nearly 1 million sold records he entered in the hall of fame of french showbiz. Hitsingles like “Ras Le Bol“ followed.
After more than 30 fortyfives and a few albums in cooperation with artists like Milt Buckner, Sam Woodyard and his son Marc-Edouard Nabe, a famous french author, he still keeps on playing on stage.
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