François Guin

François "Frick" Guin (born May 18, 1938 in Contres , Loir-et-Cher department ) is a French jazz trombonist, flutist and composer.

In 1968 he founded "Francois Guin et les Swingers", with whom he performed every evening at Club St.Germain in Paris. He played with Cat Anderson and the Duke Ellington Big Band (as the only Frenchman, in October 1969 at the Paris Jazz Festival ). In the 1970s and 1980s he had the group "Francois Guin et les Four Bones" (album of the same name in 1977 by Black and Blue and "Blues - Mouth Harpe with Four Bones and Swingers" and "Haneda" as well as several records under his own name in the 1970s on the Riviera Label, among others with Paul Gonsalves ) with trombonists ("Bones") Benny Vasseur , Christophe Vilain, Guy Arbion as well as rhythm section and Philippe Duchemin on the piano. They toured in Europe and also in Africa up to the Congo (1972/3). They played a repertoire across jazz history with a focus on his role model Duke Ellington (but also with compositions by Charles Mingus ). He also played in Claude Bolling's Big Band in the 1980s . Since then he has had other groups of his own and organized his own big band.

In 1970 he received the Prix ​​Django Reinhardt and in the same year he won the jazz hot magazine poll for best French trombonist.

literature

• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler Encyclopedia of Jazz in the 70s, Horizon 1976.

Remarks

1. ↑ He also played with his Four Bones at the celebration event for Ellington's 70th birthday in the Alcazar