Dany Doriz, born Daniel Dorisse, is a Paris vibraphonist and bandleader in the line of Lionel Hampton, and since 1970 the proprietor and artistic director of the Caveau de la Huchette, the jazz cellar at 5 rue de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter. He was born on September 7, 1941, in Boissy-Saint-Léger, southeast of Paris. He trained in classical saxophone, piano and percussion, and at sixteen he committed to the vibraphone and to jazz after his teacher Geo Daly played him a Hampton record. He turned 85 in September 2026 and still plays: the Caveau's November 2026 calendar lists his Fathers & Sons programme with the tenor saxophonist Michel Pastre for November 17.

French Wikipedia says that in 1958 and 1959 he was already working in Paris, at the cellar Les Trois Mailletz, beside the clarinetist Albert Nicholas, the trumpeter Peanuts Holland, the saxophonists Don Byas and Benny Waters and Dominique Chanson. English Wikipedia lists Mickey Baker, Bill Coleman, Memphis Slim and Tete Montoliu among the leaders he served as a sideman in the late 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1960s he led his own groups, with collaborators that English Wikipedia names as Gérard Badini, Charles Barrié, Al Jones, Michel Sardaby and Yannick Singery. A seven-inch record from 1961, Billie's Bounce, billed to the Dany Doriz Quintet, has the violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and the clarinetist Jean Tordo with Paul Racotonirina on piano, Roland Cez on bass and Gérard Huge on drums, and French Wikipedia says the quintet with Ponty and Gérard Badini played the Grande Nuit du Jazz at the Salle Wagram in Paris and the Zurich festival. Memphis Slim chose him for concerts and a recorded jam session, and Stéphane Grappelli later took him on tour.

Under his own name he also led a dance-band-flavoured big band in the 1960s and 1970s, issued on the French label Homère. Discogs lists the 1969 LP Son vibraphone et sa grande formation (Homère HO 5006), a bossa nova-tinged set that includes "Début juin" and "Si Dominique était là", and Jazz pour la danse (Homère HO 5017, 1974), with the singer Daniel Huck on four tracks, the saxophonist Bob Garcia, the trombonist Benny Vasseur and his own pieces "Huchette in the Groove", "Fanfreluche" and "Dorizuck". The big-band tracks were recorded in 1973 and the small-group tracks in 1974.

The Caveau became the centre of his career. French Wikipedia dates his taking charge of the club to January 1970, and the club's own site says he has presided over it since 1970. The club says it has had a jazz band every night since 1946, and its sign and set appear in La La Land. Records taped there in the late 1970s include a February 1977 session with the organist Lou Bennett (released on EMI France in 1991) and a May 1977 night with the organist Wild Bill Davis, drummer Kenny Clarke on two tracks and the tenor saxophonist Stéphane Guérault (issued by Laserlight in 1997, and by EMI in 2002 under the title Swing & Shout, billed to Davis). With Davis and the drummer Michel Denis he formed the trio Swing System D, recorded live in Limoges on March 17, 1978 (two Jazzmosphere LPs, JZ 79.01 and 79.02), and on March 21 and 22, 1979 he recorded Cave's Blues at the Caveau with the trumpeter Bill Coleman (Jazzmosphere JZ 79.03). Around the same time he played with the Dutch Flashback Quartet, on A Touch of Swing (Philips, 1979) and on their live set from the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague on July 12, 1981 (Polydor, 1982). French Wikipedia adds that in 1982 he formed a big band in the American tradition.

Hampton is the thread through the rest. French Wikipedia says Doriz met him in New York in 1975 and toured with him in 1976 with Hampton's big band, the two sharing one vibraphone, and that the tour ended with a concert at the Caveau. Discogs credits Doriz on vibraphone on one track of Hampton's Ring Dem Vibes (Blue Star, 1976), an album that also has Gérard Badini on tenor saxophone, and the Caveau's site says he is the only player who shared the stage with Hampton on the same vibraphone, in duo with the Hampton band. In the 1990s he made a run of Paris sessions for Black & Blue and the Big Blue label: My Favorite Vibes (November 25 and 26, 1993, with Eddie Jones on bass, Duffy Jackson on drums, the pianist Georges Arvanitas and the guitarist Thomas Möckel), This One's for Basie (November 13 and 14, 1994, with Arvanitas, Jones and Butch Miles), Memories of You: Lionel and Benny (November 6 and 7, 1995, as co-leader with the clarinetist Bob Wilber) and Jazzola (February and March 1999, with the accordionist Marcel Azzola, the guitarist Marc Fosset, Arvanitas, the bassist Patricia Lebeugle and the drummer Richard Portier). Jazz Hot gave him its cover in September 1997, on the vibraphone issue, and in 1998 he created the Caveau de la Huchette Swing Show, a revue of some twenty-five musicians, singers and dancers.

The 2000s and later are his big-band and anniversary years. With the vocal trio Sweet System he recorded Jazz Fever (Black & Blue, February and March 2004, with his son Didier Dorise on drums and Claude Tissendier arranging) and won the Grand Prix du Jury at the Juan-les-Pins Revelations contest in 2004. On the New Jersey Road (Futura, recorded September 26 and 27, 2005) is a trio record with the pianist Philippe Duchemin and Patricia Lebeugle, made after an American tour. In 2007 he featured on Manu Dibango's Sidney Bechet tribute Hommage à la Nouvelle-Orléans (Cristal Records), and the Dany Doriz Big Band recorded Live at the Méridien for the Hampton centenary (Black & Blue). In 2014 came Scott Hamilton Plays with the Dany Doriz Caveau de la Huchette Orchestra (Frémeaux & Associés, FA 599) with the tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton, and a big-band album with Dibango and the trumpeter Ronald Baker with a cover drawn by Cabu (Frémeaux, FA 8504). Frémeaux also issued the Caveau anthology (2017) and his own three-CD Anthologie Dany Doriz All Stars 1962-2021 (FA 5787), which the Caveau's site says won a 2021 Hot Club de France prize on its reissue. In 2022 came Fathers & Sons: The Lionel Hampton / Illinois Jacquet Ceremony (Frémeaux, FA 8598), which pairs him with Michel Pastre and their sons, the organist César Pastre and Didier Dorise; the Caveau's site credits it with the Académie du Jazz prize for classic jazz for 2022 and a "Choc" in Jazz Magazine for February 2023.

Doriz plays Lionel Hampton's instrument in Hampton's idiom: fast, bluesy and harmonically alert swing vibraphone, with a repertoire built on Hampton ("Midnight Sun", "Air Mail Special", "Flying Home", "Hamp's Boogie Woogie"), Basie, Ellington and Goodman, and a handful of his own tunes, among them "Fanfreluche", "Good Vibes" and "Huchette in the Groove". French Wikipedia describes a personal, quick style and a sense of harmony that give the vibraphone its standing as a solo instrument, and a 2006 Jazzman piece quoted there praises his talent for improvising, his swing and his readiness to give young musicians a chance. Jazz Journal's review of Fathers & Sons calls his playing nimble and crystalline. AllMusic lists his style as vibraphone and marimba jazz. His working life divides between the bandstand and the Caveau, where he is artistic director, but his records and the partners on them (Bill Coleman, Scott Hamilton, Wild Bill Davis, Bob Wilber, Marcel Azzola) are mainstream and swing-era jazz throughout.