Guy Patrick Paquinet (August 13, 1903,

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trombonist. Paquinet played in an army band in the early 1920s, then worked with Paul Gason,

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, became a noteworthy jazz performer in his own right.

References

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

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