Jacques "Jack" Diéval (born December 21, 1920,

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) was a French

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pianist, composer, and bandleader. Diéval's parents were also jazz musicians, who led an ensemble known as the DéDé Jazz Band. He studied music at the Douai Conservatory with Victor Gallois, and was playing professionally in

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from age 14. After working briefly in 1942 at Tunis Radio, he relocated to Paris,"Impro non stop", in ''88 notes pour piano solo'',

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, Neva Editions, 2015, p. 156-157. where he worked with

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from 1943 to 1946. After the war he worked with

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, Noël Chiboust, Bill Coleman,

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, James Moody, and

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, and founded his own quintet in 1953, whose sidemen included Bill Tamper on trombone and Jean-Claude Fohrenbach on saxophone. In the 1970s he played with Roger Guerin and

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, and worked on compositions, including 1973's ''Le Serpent Vert''.

References

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

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