Benoît Charvet

Benoît Charvet (born March 14, 1938 in Algiers ) is a French jazz musician ( double bass ) and sound engineer.

He discovered music when he was twenty. He learned the piano , switched to the guitar , which he played for five years. When the singer Hugues Aufray was looking for a bass player, Charvet seized the opportunity to learn the basics of the new instrument. The fact that he already mastered the piano and the guitar helped him. He later went to Paris, where he played with jazz musicians such as Mal Waldron , Lee Konitz & René Thomas . Henri Texier recommended the young musician as a substitute bass player to saxophonist Michel Roques , who built up his own trio - with Franco Manzecchi on drums . With this trio, Charvet toured many European festivals such as in Montreux. In parallel, he provided other musicians such as Kenny Clarke , Hal Singer , Nathan Davis , Dexter Gordon , Joe Henderson , Hank Mobley , Ted Curson , Dizzy Reece , Charles Tolliver . The Charvet-Manzecchi tandem was considered one of the most important and successful rhythm groups in France in the late 1960s.

Charvet gave up making music and has been a sound engineer since the 1980s .

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