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Roger Guérin (; 9 January 1926,
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) was a French
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trumpeter and singer. Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and
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at the
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and won a first prize there as a teenager. He began working professionally in 1947, playing with
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,
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, Bernard Peiffer,
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. Guérin played at the 1958
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with a youth ensemble, and played in Les Double Six in 1959, later returning to this group. He replaced
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in
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'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
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. Guérin has over 150 album credits to his name. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt in 1959.


Discography


As sideman

With the
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'' (Atlantic, 1962) * '' Handle with Care'' (Atlantic, 1963) * ''
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* ''Jimmy Raney Visits Paris'' (Dawn, 1958) * ''Guitaristic'' (Swing, 1974) * ''The Complete Paris Sessions'' (Vogue, 1984) With others *
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, ''Mickey Baker Plays Mickey Baker'' (Versailles, 1962) *
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, ''Pierre Barouh'' (Disc'Az 1966) *
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, ''French Jazz'' (Bally, 1956) * Claude Bolling, ''Les Succes de La Nouvelle Orleans'' (Club Francais, 1958) *
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, ''Plays Andre Hodeir'' (Philips, 1956) *
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, ''Line for Lions'' (RDC, 1993) * Jack Dieval, ''Jack Dieval & Paris Jazz Quartet'' (Concert Hall, 1968) *
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, ''Benny Golson and the Philadelphians'' (United Artists, 1959) * Michel Hausser, ''Up in Hamburg'' (Columbia, 1960) * Bobby Jaspar, ''Revisited'' (Inner City, 1980) *
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, ''Lausanne 1960'' (TCB, 1994) * Eddy Louiss, ''Flomela'' (Dreyfus, 1996) *
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, ''Round About a Bass'' (Mercury, 1963) *
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, ''Claude Nougaro'' (Philips, 1966) *
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, ''Django Reinhardt et Son Quintette'' (Decca, 1966) *
Martial Solal Martial Solal (23 August 1927 – 12 December 2024) was a French jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria on 23 August 1927, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, ...
, ''Martial Solal Big Band'' (Gaumont, 1981) *
Lucky Thompson Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. Although John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano sa ...
, ''Lucky Sessions'' (Vogue, 1992)


References

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