Guy Longnon

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Guy Longnon (July 16, 1924 – February 1, 2014) was a French jazz trumpeter, arranger and music pedagogue active in the jazz scene of Marseille.

Longnon played with Raymond Fol, Don Byas, Sidney Bechet, Mezz Mezzrow, Russell Moore, Claude Luter, Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Guy Lafitte, André Persiany, Albert Nicholas, , and Moustache from the beginning of the 1950s. In the field of jazz, he was involved in sixty recording sessions between 1950 and 1958; he also performed in the orchestras of Michel Attenoux and , and in Paris with Boris Vian. In this time he also wrote film music for the short films (1951) and (1952).

Longnon created a jazz class on the initiative of Pierre Barbizet at the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Regional (CNRR) in Marseille in 1963. Among his pupils were Pierre Christophe, , Bruno Angelini, Gérald Bataille, Caparros Jose, Gérard Sumian, Justice Olsson and Jean-Marc Padovani. Philippe Renault, who succeeded Guy Longnon at CNRR in Marseille in 1992, founded the jazz group D6, which recorded a tribute album in honor of Longnon in 2013, Kind of Guy.

Guy Longnon is the uncle of Jean-Loup Longnon.