André Persiany (November 19, 1927,

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- January 2, 2004, Paris) was a French

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pianist. Persiany's father taught him violin and piano as a child, and by 1945, he had formed his own ensemble. He was a member of the Be Bop Minstrels with

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and

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in 1947, then played with

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, Eddie Bernard, Bill Coleman,

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. In 1969, he returned to Paris, and held a residency as the pianist at Le Furstenberg from 1970 to 1988. His associations in the 1970s included

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, and

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. Persiany's son Stéphane Persiani became a double-bassist.

References

*Michel Laplace, "André Persiany". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed.

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