François Guin (born May 18, 1938, in Contres) is a French

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musician and bandleader. Guin is a musical polymath, having learned violin, piano, voice, trombone, trumpet, and flute. As a trumpeter, he worked with

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in 1957, then switched to trombone to work with

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from 1959 to 1962. During this time he also played with Christian Chevallier, Jacques Denjean,

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, and Daniel Janin. Later in the 1960s he worked with

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, Luis Fuentes,

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, and

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., . In the 1970s, he played with Bill Coleman and

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, and led his own ensemble, Four Bones, which was formed in 1967 and continued into the 1990s. Late in the 1970s he played in Les Petits Français with

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and

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. In 1985 he took a position as a pedagogue at the

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conservatory, remaining there until 1997.

References

*Michel Laplace, "François Guin". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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