Roger Guérin (9 January 1926,

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– 6 February 2010,

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) was a French jazz trumpeter and singer. Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and

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at the Paris Conservatory and won a first prize there as a teenager. He began working professionally in 1947, playing with Aimé Barelli, Django Reinhardt, Don Byas, Hubert Fol, James Moody,

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, Bernard Peiffer, Fats Sadi, Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke, Blossom Dearie, Martial Solal, Michel Legrand and

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. Guérin played at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival with a youth ensemble, and played in

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in 1959, later returning to this group. He replaced

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in Quincy Jones's Big Band in 1960. He worked on the soundtrack to the film ''Paris Blues'' in 1961 with

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. He worked extensively as a vocalist for Michel Legrand. Guérin has over 150 album credits to his name. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt in 1959.

Discography

As sideman

With the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band * ''

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'' (Atlantic, 1962) * ''

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'' (Atlantic, 1963) * '' Now Hear Our Meanin''' (Columbia, 1966) With Andre Hodeir * ''The Paris Scene'' (Savoy, 1957) * ''Anna Livia Plurabelle'' (Philips, 1966) * ''Bitter Ending'' (Epic, 1972) With Jimmy Raney * ''Jimmy Raney Visits Paris'' (Dawn, 1958) * ''Guitaristic'' (Swing, 1974) * ''The Complete Paris Sessions'' (Vogue, 1984) With others * Mickey Baker, ''Mickey Baker Plays Mickey Baker'' (Versailles, 1962) * Pierre Barouh, ''Pierre Barouh'' (Disc'Az 1966) * Claude Bolling, ''French Jazz'' (Bally, 1956) * Claude Bolling, ''Les Succes de La Nouvelle Orleans'' (Club Francais, 1958) * Kenny Clarke, ''Plays Andre Hodeir'' (Philips, 1956) *

Michel De Villers Michel De Villers (July 13, 1926, Villeneuve-sur-Lot - October 25, 1992, Mont St. Aignan) was a French jazz reedist and bandleader. De Villers learned to play alto saxophone as a teenager, and later expanded to clarinet and baritone saxophone. He ...

, ''Line for Lions'' (RDC, 1993) *

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, ''Jack Dieval & Paris Jazz Quartet'' (Concert Hall, 1968) *

, ''Benny Golson and the Philadelphians'' (United Artists, 1959) * Michel Hausser, ''Up in Hamburg'' (Columbia, 1960) * Bobby Jaspar, ''Revisited'' (Inner City, 1980) * Quincy Jones, ''Lausanne 1960'' (TCB, 1994) * Eddy Louiss, ''Flomela'' (Dreyfus, 1996) * Pierre Michelot, ''Round About a Bass'' (Mercury, 1963) *

Claude Nougaro Claude Nougaro (, oc, Claudi Nogaròu; 9 September 1929 – 4 March 2004) was a French songwriter and singer. Life and career Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher, Liette ...

, ''Claude Nougaro'' (Philips, 1966) * Django Reinhardt, ''Django Reinhardt et Son Quintette'' (Decca, 1966) * Martial Solal, ''Martial Solal Big Band'' (Gaumont, 1981) * Lucky Thompson, ''Lucky Sessions'' (Vogue, 1992)

References

* Roger Guérinat Allmusic {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerin, Roger 1926 births 2010 deaths French jazz trumpeters Male trumpeters 20th-century French musicians 20th-century trumpeters 20th-century French male musicians French male jazz musicians Les Double Six members