AIME BARELLI

Aime Barelli was a French jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader from the 1940s to the 1990s. He worked with many artists and eventually led his own group which performed with Dizzy Gillespie in 1948. He played informally with Sidney Bechet and Charlie Parker in the late 1940s and with Django Reinhardt in 1952. Starting in 1966, he led his own ensemble in Monte Carlo. He passed away in Monte Carlo in 1995 at the age of 78