Gregor (musician)
Krikor Kélékian, better known as Gregor, was an Ottoman-French jazz bandleader of Armenian origin.
Gregor founded a group called the Gregorians in France in 1928, whose sidemen included Philippe Brun, Edmond Cohanier, and Lucien Moraweck, and which made some early recordings. In 1929-1930 he founded the Revue du jazz, the first publication to cover jazz music in France. In 1930 he led a large ensemble on a tour of South America and recorded in Buenos Aires; his bands in the early 1930s included sideman such as Alix Combelle, André Ekyan, and Michel Warlop. He died in Malente, Germany, in 1971.
