# Marc Danval

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{{Short description|Belgian journalist and author (1937–2022)}}
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'''Marc Sevenants''' (18 February 1937 – 22 September 2022),<ref>[https://www.rtbf.be/article/la-rtbf-en-deuil-marc-danval-est-parti-rejoindre-les-legendes-du-jazz-qu-il-cherissait-tant-11072324 La RTBF en deuil : Marc Danval est parti rejoindre les légendes du jazz qu'il chérissait tant] {{in lang|fr}}</ref> better known by the [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym) of '''Marc Danval''', was a Belgian journalist, author, artist and columnist, who wrote about Belgian food and jazz. In his early career he also worked as an actor.

== Biography ==
Born Marc Sevenants, Marc Danval was respectively the son and the grandson of the pianists, composers and teachers at the [Royal Conservatory of Brussels](/source/Royal_Conservatory_of_Brussels), [Fernand](/source/Fernand_Sevenants) (1901–1992) and [José Sevenants](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Sevenants) (1868–1946). After beginning his career as an actor in the late 1950s, he changed his name to the stage name Danval - a reference to his mother Marthe Danvoie's maiden name - in order to avoid confusion with his cousin, [Maurice Sevenants](/source/Maurice_Sevenants), who was also interested in becoming actor. Danval performed in many Brussels theatres, including the [Royal Park Theatre](/source/Royal_Park_Theatre) and the [Théâtre royal des Galeries](/source/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_royal_des_Galeries) before ending his career in 1961.

During those same years, Danval also started working as a jazz columnist. He began his radio career during his military service in 1958, presenting several special broadcasts for troops. In the 1960s he began presenting jazz programmes at [RTBF](/source/RTBF) (Belgian Radio and Television) and [Radio Luxembourg](/source/Radio_Luxembourg). Latterly he was best known as the producer and host of the RTBF program ''La troisième oreille'' <ref>This broadcasting replaced ''25, 50, 75'' of [Nicolas Dor](/source/Nicolas_Dor) in 1998</ref> which presents rare [78](/source/78_rpm), [45](/source/45-rpm_record) and [33](/source/33_RPM) rpm recordings. He also worked as journalist in the specialized and general press,<ref>Particularly in ''Les cahiers du jazz'', magazine established in 1959 by [Frank Ténot](/source/Frank_T%C3%A9not) and [Lucien Malson](/source/Lucien_Malson)</ref> and regularly hosted jazz concerts in Belgium and abroad.

Besides his regular columns, Marc Danval was the author of poetry (''Parmi moi seul'', a performance called ''Les poètes du jazz''), biographies of [Sacha Guitry](/source/Sacha_Guitry), [Robert Goffin](/source/Robert_Goffin) and [Toots Thielemans](/source/Toots_Thielemans), and articles for the ''Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie''.

During his career, Danval’s reputation in the jazz world allowed him to meet renowned musicians including [Louis Armstrong](/source/Louis_Armstrong), [Miles Davis](/source/Miles_Davis), [John Coltrane](/source/John_Coltrane) and [Chet Baker](/source/Chet_Baker). These encounters are evoked in his poetry collection ''Parmi moi seul''.

In 2006 the ''Société belge des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs'' ([SABAM](/source/SABAM)) awarded Danval the “Django d’Or” for his leading role in Belgium’s jazz scene.

== Marc Danval Collection ==
Source:<ref>Fonds Marc Danval on the [Music Division's website of the Royal Library of Belgium](/source/Royal_Library_of_Belgium) http://www.kbr.be</ref>

Over the course of his career, Marc Danval developed a large collection of recordings, particularly rich in Belgian jazz. He acquired his first 78 RPM recording at the age of nine. It was a cover of ''Boogie Woogie'' by [Pinetop Smith](/source/Pinetop_Smith) and of ''Rempart du Sud'' by [Ray Bauduc](/source/Ray_Bauduc) and [Bob Haggart](/source/Bob_Haggart) performed by [Stan Brenders](/source/Stan_Brenders), a striking figure of Belgian jazz and jazz band leader of [Institut National de Radiodiffusion](/source/Institut_National_de_Radiodiffusion).

In 2010, thanks to the support of the ''Friends of the Royal Library of Belgium'', the [Music Division of the Royal Library of Belgium](/source/Royal_Library_of_Belgium) acquired the collection. The acquisition was an important development for the Music Division and a considerable enrichment of its collections of non-classical music.<ref>Cornaz M., "Le fonds Marc Danval: une source hors du commun pour l'étude de la vie musicale à Bruxelles" (The Marc Danval Collection: an unusual source for studying the musical life in Brussels), in Brusselse cahiers : Tijdschrift van de Stad Brussel = Cahiers Bruxellois: Revue d'histoire urbaine (Urban history review), XLV, Brussels, The Archives of the city of Brussels, 2013, p.&nbsp;85-96. Downloadable on Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/22042162/Le_fonds_Marc_Danval_une_source_hors_du_commun_pour_létude_de_la_vie_musicale_à_Bruxelles</ref>

The Danval Collection holds 12,000 78, 45 and 33 RPM recordings ranging from jazz, to folk music, to French and English-language popular songs, film music, and variety shows. It also contains some 2,000 illustrated scores from the late 19th century to the 1950s, some of which feature artworks signed by [Magritte](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte), [De Greef](/source/Arthur_De_Greef_(composer)), [Henri-Valéry Vander Poorten](/source/Henri-Val%C3%A9ry_Vander_Poorten) and Jean-Dominique Van Caulaert. The Danval collection also holds over 800 works on music, 3,000 photographs (most of them signed) and 500 posters.

== Bibliography ==
* ''Le règne de Sacha Guitry'', biography, Pierre De Méyère, Brussels, 1971
* ''Bon appétit Bruxelles'', gastronomy, Collet, Brussels, 1982
* ''Parmi moi seul'', poetry, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, 1983
* ''Les poètes du jazz'', theatre, Brussels, on 5 February 1985, created by the Ivan Baudouin-Lesly Burton company, with Lesly Burton, the pianist Charles Loos and the author
* ''Cuisine traditionnelle en Hainaut'', Libro-Sciences, 1990
* ''L'énigme résolue de Verlaine à la Trappe de Forges-lez-Chimay'', C.G.R.I., 1996
* ''L'insaisissable Robert Goffin'', biography, Quorum, 1998
* ''Toots Thielemans'', biography, Racine, 2006
* ''Robert Goffin, avocat, poète et homme de jazz'', Le Carré Gomand, 2014
* ''Histoire du jazz en Belgique'', Avant-Propos, 2014

== Prizes awarded ==
* Plume d'Or de la Gastronomie (The Golden Plume of Gastronomy) in 1995
* The Golden Django for its contribution to the jazz scene in Belgium in 2006

== References ==
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