- Born
- Died
- Jean Pierre Gebler was born in 1938 in Uccle, Belgium. He died on December 27, 2006 in Linkebeek, Flanders, Belgium.
- In 1959 he decided to settle down in Portugal and with local musicians founded the first Portuguese jazz orchestra, performing on a regular basis, in quartet, at the Hot-Club of Portugal.
- He picked up his saxophone again in 1982 and appeared with Jacques Pelzer and Jacques Pirotton at the Cascais Jazz Festival (Portugal).
- In 1963, leading the Hot-club of Portugal quartet, he appeared at the festival of Comblain-la-Tour (Belgium). Returning to Portugal, he performed with Gerry Mulligan, Dexter Gordon and Pony Poindexter. In 1967 he moved back to Belgium, and, for economical reasons, decided to drop his musical activities.
- In 1962, he participated, with Milou Struvay, in the creation of the soundtrack of the first movie of the Portuguese new wave, "O Balarmino", by Fernando Lopes.
- In 1958 he joined the band of Jacques Pelzer and Benoît Quersin, with whom he appeared on the historical LP "Jazz in Little Belgium" with Milou Struvay (tp), Joel Van Drogenbroek (piano) and Vivi Mardens (drs). During that period he also recorded the soundtrack of a Belgian movie (Venice Prize) by Luc De Heusch, and met his friend and accomplice Marc Danval, who starred in the movie.
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