Roger Guérin was a French

France

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 jazz

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 trumpeter and singer.

Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and cornet

Cornet

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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

Django Reinhardt

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, Don Byas

Don Byas

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, Hubert Fol, James Moody

James Moody (saxophonist)

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, Benny Golson

Benny Golson

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, Bernard Peiffer

Bernard Peiffer

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, Fats Sadi, Lucky Thompson

Lucky Thompson

Eli "Lucky" Thompson was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist...

, Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke

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, Blossom Dearie

Blossom Dearie

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, Martial Solal

Martial Solal

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, Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

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 and André Hodeir

André Hodeir

André Hodeir was a French violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist.-Biography:André Hodeir was born in Paris. His initial training was as a classical violinist and composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he took Olivier Messiaen's analysis class, and won first prizes in...

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Guérin played at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival

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 with a youth ensemble, and played in Les Double Six

Les Double Six

Les Double Six was a French vocal jazz group established in 1959 by Mimi Perrin. The group established an international reputation in the early 1960s. The name of the group was an allusion to the fact that the sextet used overdubbing techniques to achieve twelve-part singing...

 in 1959, later returning to this group. He replaced Clark Terry

Clark Terry

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 in Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones

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

Louis Armstrong

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 and Dizzy Gillespie

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. He worked extensively as a vocalist for Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

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Guérin has over 150 album credits to his name. He won the Prix Django Renhardt in 1959.