Editing Sacha Distel (section)

==Career==
Distel was the son of Russian-French émigré Léonide Distel who was born in [[Odessa, Ukraine]] and French-Jewish pianist Andrée Ventura (1902–1965), born in [[Constantinople]].<ref name="telegraph obit">{{cite news |title=Sacha Distel |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1467623/Sacha-Distel.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |access-date=27 November 2018 |date=22 July 2004}}</ref> His uncle was bandleader [[Ray Ventura (pianist)|Ray Ventura]].<ref name="Harris">{{cite web |last1=Harris |first1=Craig |title=Sacha Distel |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sacha-distel-mn0000276044 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref> After Ventura settled in Paris with his orchestra Les Collégiens, Distel gave up piano and switched to guitar.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.myspace.com/sachadistelofficiel |title=La découverte du bebop |website=Sacha Distel Official Myspace |access-date=2 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803132856/http://blogs.myspace.com/sachadistelofficiel |archive-date=3 August 2009|df=dmy-all }}</ref>

During his career, Distel worked with [[Kenny Clarke]], [[Jimmy Gourley]], [[Lionel Hampton]], [[Slide Hampton]], [[Bobby Jaspar]], [[Barney Kessel]], [[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]], [[Pierre Michelot]], [[Bernard Peiffer]], [[Henri Renaud]], [[Fats Sadi]],  [[Art Simmons]], [[Martial Solal]], [[René Urtreger]], and [[Barney Wilen]].<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book |editor-last=Kernfeld |editor-first=Barry |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |year=2002 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/newgrovedictiona0001unse_w1m0/page/618/mode/2up?q=distel |isbn=978-0-3336-9189-2 |page=619 |volume=1 |edition=2nd}}</ref>

As well as his musical career he also did some acting, primarily on French television. He had a cameo appearance in the 1960 film ''[[Zazie dans le Métro]]''. He appeared in "Fallen Angels" by Noel Coward on British television in 1974.