François Tusques (born January 27, 1938 in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

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) is a French

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

pianist. Tusques played a significant role in the emergence of a community of

free jazz Free jazz is an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during ...

musicians in France.

Discography

* ''Free Jazz'', with

Bernard Vitet Bernard Vitet (26 May 1934 – 3 July 2013) was a French trumpeter, multi-instrumentist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France (1964) together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit (1972) and Un Drame Musical Inst ...

Beb Guérin Bernard "Beb" Guérin (December 22, 1941 in La Rochelle – November 14, 1980 in Paris) was a French jazz double-bassist. Beb Guérin first began playing bass at age 23, working in the 1960s with Sonny Criss, Jacques Coursil, François Tusques, Ala ...

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

François Jeanneau François Jeanneau (born June 15, 1935, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Jeanneau studied flute under René Leroy at the Paris Conservatory, but was an autodidact on saxophone.Michel Laplace, "Francois Jeanneau". '' The ...

, 1965. * ''La Maison Fille du Soleil'',with

Don Cherry Donald Stewart Cherry (born February 5, 1934) is a Canadian former ice hockey player, coach, and television commentator. Cherry played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, and later coached the team for five se ...

, Beb Guérin,

Jean-François Jenny-Clark Jean-François "J.F." Jenny-Clark (12 July 1944 in Toulouse, France – 6 October 1998 in Paris) was a French double bass player. He was estimated as one of the most important bass players of European jazz. Allmusic credits/ref> Together with drum ...

, 1965. * ''Le Nouveau Jazz'', with

Barney Wilen Bernard "Barney" Jean Wilen (4 March 1937 – 25 May 1996) was a French tenor and soprano saxophonist and jazz composer. Life Wilen was born in Nice, France; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began ...

Aldo Romano Aldo Romano (born 16 January 1941) is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a rock group in 1971. Biography He was born in Belluno, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in P ...

, 1967. *''François Tusques – La Reine des Vampires -

Eddy Gaumont Eddy Gaumont, born Édouard Jean-Marie Émile Gaumont on August 14, 1946 in Cayenne, died on November 22, 1971 in Paris, was a drummer of jazz and free-jazz. Biography Eddy Gaumont is the sixth of nine siblings. He is the son of the politici ...

plays violin, 1967'' * ''Sunny Murray'', concert ''live'' with l'Acoustical Swing Unit, 1968. * ''

Big Chief "Big Chief" is a song composed by Earl King in the early 1960s. It became a hit in New Orleans for Professor Longhair in 1964,Berry/Foose/Jones, ''Up from the Cradle of Jazz''. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2009, p. 148. featuring a ...

'', Acoustical Swing Unit, 1969. * ''Piano Dazibao'', 1970 - Futura Ger 14 * ''The Panther and the Lash'', with

Clifford Thornton Clifford Edward Thornton III (September 6, 1936 – November 25, 1989) was an American jazz trumpeter, trombonist, activist, and educator. He played free jazz and avant-garde jazz in the 1960s and '70s. Career Clifford was born in Philadelphia. ...

, Beb Guérin, Noel McGhee, 1970. * ''Dazibao n°2'', 1971 - Futura Ger32 * ''Intercommunal Music'' with

Sunny Murray James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray (September 21, 1936 – December 7, 2017) was an American musician, and was one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming. Biography Murray was born in Idabel, Oklahoma, where he was raised by an ...

Alan Silva Alan Silva (born Alan Lee da Silva; January 22, 1939 in Bermuda) is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player. Biography Silva was born a British subject to an Azorean/Portuguese mother, Irene da Silva, and a black Bermudian fat ...

, Beb Guérin, Steve Potts, Alan Shorter, Bob Reid, Louis Armfield, 1971. * ''Répression'', with

Colette Magny Colette Magny (31 October 1926 – 12 June 1997) was a French singer and songwriter. A charismatic performer who did not record until her thirties, her work encompassed blues, jazz, protest songs, experimental music and spoken word recordin ...

, 1972. * ''Dansons Avec Les Travailleurs Immigrés'', with Michel Marre, Claude Marre, Carlos Andreu,

Denis Levaillant Denis Levaillant (born 3 August, 1952) is a French composer, pianist and writer based in Paris, France. He has orchestrated more than twenty musical shows including ' and composed more than 120 musical works worldwide. Levaillant has been recogniz ...

, 1974. * ''Ça Branle Dans la Manche'', with Serge Utgé-Royo, 1975. * ''Le piano préparé'', 1977. * ''Après la marée noire - Vers une Musique Bretonne Nouvelle'' with Jean-Louis Le Vallégant, Gaby Kerdoncuff, Philippe Le Strat, Tanguy Ledore, Ramadolf, Michel Marre, Samuel Ateba, Carlos Andreu, Jo Maka, Kilikus, 1979. * ''Poemas de Federico Garcia Lorca'' with Violeta Ferrer, 1980. * ''Le Musichien'', with Carlos Andreu, Ramadolf, Kilikus, Sylvain Kassap, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Yegba Likoba,

, Danièle Dumas, Sam Ateba, Tanguy Le Doré, Jean-Louis Le Vallégant, Philippe Le Strat, 1983. * ''Génération'', music for the documentary by Daniel Edinger, 1988. * ''Le Jardin des Délices'', 1992. * ''Blue Phédre'', 1996. * ''Blues Suite'' with

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Denis Colin Denis Colin is a French bass clarinettist and composer, born in Vanves, 24 July 1956. After studying clarinet at the conservatoire in Versailles, he turned to jazz, making appearances with Steve Lacy, François Cotinaud and Alan Silva. He was ...

, 1998. * ''Arc Voltaic'', with Carlos Andreu, Didier Petit,

, Danièle Dumas, 2003. * ''Topolitologie'', with

, 2010. * ''Near the Oasis'', with

Sonny Simmons Huey "Sonny" Simmons (August 4, 1933 – April 6, 2021) was an American jazz musician. Biography Simmons was born on August 4, 1933 in Sicily Island, Louisiana. He grew up in Oakland, California, where he began playing the English horn. (Along w ...

, 2011. * ''L'étang Change (Mais Les Poissons Sont Toujours Là)'', 2012 * ''La Jungle Du Douanier Rousseau'', with Alexandra Grimal, Sylvain Guérineau, 2014. * ''Le Fond De L'Air'', with Pablo Cueco, Myrtha Pozzi, 2014. * ''Le Chant Du Jubjub'', with Isabel Juanpera, Itaru Oki, Claude Parle, 2015.

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