Jacky June


Jacky June was a Belgian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.

Career highlights

Jacky June began studying piano at age six. In 1943, he joined the Henry Van Bemst Orchestra. After World War II, June founded and directed his own jazz orchestra at the Hotel Cosmopolite Bruxelles. He also played with Hot Club de Belgique and the Kot Jazzmen, the latter from which, in the 1950s, his Jump College Orchestra emerged. In 1951, he performed with Roy Eldridge at Jazzclub La Rose Noire. Jazz critics compared June's style to that of Sidney Bechet and Benny Carter, both with whom June recorded, along with René Thomas, :de:Jean Blaton|Jean Blaton, Peanuts Holland, Don Byas and Léon Demeuldre in 1965, and perhaps in 1967 and 1971. In the 1950s, his Jump College Orchestra fronted Charles Trenet and Marlene Dietrich at the Knokke Casino and Sidney Bechet at the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
The Kot Jazzmen was founded during the Nazi occupation of Belgium. At that time, a number of Brussels musicians went into hiding and got together in a tiny four-story building on the Rue des Moineaux. The house became famous as Le Kot. The group included:
June was the grandson of Otto Junne, music publisher who acquired the publishing firm Schott frères in 1889.

Selected discography

;Jam Session, Polyvox Acetate
  1. "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball"
  2. "Dinah"
  3. "Out of Nowhere"
  4. "I've Found a New Baby"
  5. "Don't Be That Way"
  6. "Blues"
  7. "Refrain sauvage," Vivian Gray
  8. "Boogie Woogie"
  9. "Blues"
;The Kot Jazzmen, private recording
  1. "Ladies lullaby"
  2. "Night Ramble"
;Jazz Vivant, The Jump College Orchestra, private recording
  1. "Sophisticated Lady"
  2. "Red Top"
;:fr:Jacques Pelzer|Jacques Pelzer, private recording
  1. "Buzzy"
  2. "Pennies from Heaven"
  3. "Marionette"
  4. "Lady Bird"
  5. "How High the Moon"
;Jam Session on the Radio, Radio 55 blues Radio Broadcast
;Sidney Bechet with The Jump College Band, Air Hot AVG
  1. "St. Louis blues"
;Jam Session on the Radio
  1. "Lady Be Good"
  2. "Basin Street Blues"
  3. "Perdido"
  4. "St. Louis Blues"
;Jam Session on the Radio
  1. "Lester Leaps In"
  2. "The Man I Love"
  3. "Tea For Two"
  4. "Body and Soul"
  5. "How High the Moon"
;Jazz Vivant, Leon "Bodash" Demeuldre Quintet, Session 2, private acetate
  1. "Denison Swing"
  2. "Ellington Medley"
  3. "Kansas City Stride"
  4. "Rock-a-Bye Basie"
  5. "The Sheik of Araby"
  6. "Slider"
;Fats Sadi with the Jump College Orchestra, Stereo a Gogo, Volume V
  1. "Flamingo"
  2. ":de:Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schön|Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schön"
  3. "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
  4. "Bonsoir Jolie Madame"
  5. "How High the Moon"
  6. "Stranger in Paradise"
  7. "Winter in Madrid"
  8. "Orange Colored Sky"
  9. "When the Saints Go Marching In"
  10. "The Last Night"
  11. "Far Away"
;Jump College Orchestra, MediaGolden Evergreens in super stereo
  1. "Satin Doll"
  2. "These Foolish Things"
  3. "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  4. "Royal garden Blues"
  5. "Laura"
  6. "Caravan "
  7. "Mack the Knife"
  8. "The Man I Love"
  9. "Deep Purple"
  10. "Nuages"
  11. "Mood Indigo"
  12. "Take the 'A' Train"