Jacky June

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

Career highlights

Jacky June was born in Brussels, Belgium, and began studying piano at the age of 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, 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]. He died at Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.
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.

;Jam Session, Polyvox Acetate

;The Kot Jazzmen, private recording

;Jazz Vivant, The Jump College Orchestra, private recording

;Jacques Pelzer, private recording

;Jam Session on the Radio, Radio 55 blues Radio Broadcast
;Sidney Bechet with The Jump College Band, Air Hot AVG

;Jam Session on the Radio

;Jazz Vivant, Leon "Bodash" Demeuldre Quintet, Session 2, private acetate

;Fats Sadi with the Jump College Orchestra, Stereo a Gogo, Volume V

;Jump College Orchestra, MediaGolden Evergreens in super stereo