Jo Privat (15 April 1919 – 3 April 1996) was a French

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

ist and composer. Privat was born at

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, Paris. He played for many years at Balajo, a musette club in Paris where he worked with

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani people, Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Belgium, Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist and composer in France. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe ...

, the Ferret Brothers, Didier Roussin and Patrick Saussois. Privat composed about five hundred works, influenced by bagpipes,

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culture and American jazz. He died at Savigny-le-Temple and was cremated on April 12. His ashes were buried in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Privat, Jo 1919 births 1996 deaths Jazz accordionists French accordionists Folk jazz musicians French male composers 20th-century French composers 20th-century accordionists 20th-century French male musicians French male jazz musicians