André Paquinet

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André Paquinet (October 1, 1926, Arcueil - July 5, 2014)[1] was a French jazz trombonist.

Paquinet's father was Guy Paquinet, and early in his life André played in his father's ensemble. He then worked with , Jacques Hélian, Claude Bolling, Michel Legrand, and Fred Gerard in the 1950s. In 1957, he founded a trombone duo with Benny Vasseur; they recorded and worked together throughout the 1960s. He also worked extensively as a sideman in the 1960s, for Dany Doriz, André Hodeir, and François Guin. In 1967 he worked with Jean-Claude Naude for the first time, returning again to collaborate several times in the early 1970s. Around 1970 he played with Roy Eldridge, Slide Hampton, and Ivan Jullien; from 1973 to 1977 he was in Berlin, working with .[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "OBITUARIES: January 2015" (PDF). Cadence Jazz Magazine. Retrieved December 29, 2019.
  2. ^ Michel Laplace, "André Paquinet". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. passim.
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