François Guin

François Guin (born May 18, 1938, in Contres) is a French jazz musician and bandleader.

Guin is a musical polymath, having learned violin, piano, voice, trombone, trumpet, and flute. As a trumpeter, he worked with Marc Laferrière in 1957, then switched to trombone to work with Raymond Fonsèque from 1959 to 1962. During this time he also played with Christian Chevallier, Jacques Denjean, Jacques Hélian, and Daniel Janin. Later in the 1960s he worked with Duke Ellington, Luis Fuentes, Michel Legrand, and Gerry Mulligan. In the 1970s, he played with Bill Coleman and Claude Bolling, 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 Moustache and Georges Brassens. In 1985 he took a position as a pedagogue at the Châteauroux conservatory, remaining there until 1997.

References

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

French jazz bandleaders

French jazz trombonists

French jazz trumpeters

Male trumpeters

French jazz singers

French male singers

Living people

21st-century trumpeters

1938 births

21st-century French male musicians

French male jazz musicians

Black & Blue Records artists