Jacques Gauthé (12 June 1939, Gaujac - 10 June 2007, Gaujac ) was a French

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reedist. Gauthé studied under Claude Luter and

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as a teenager, and formed his own band in 1957, which played with

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, Mezz Mezzrow, Albert Nicholas, Lucky Thompson, and Benny Waters. In the 1960s he formed a new ensemble, the Old Time Jazz Band, which included Enzo Mucci and Claude Tissendier as sidemen. In 1972, he relocated to

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, where he played at

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and worked with Alvin Alcorn, Wallace Davenport, Freddie Kohlman, Freddy Lonzo, Louis Nelson, Steve Pistorius, and

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References

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

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauthe, Jacques French jazz saxophonists French male saxophonists French jazz clarinetists French emigrants to the United States French male jazz musicians 1939 births 2007 deaths Stomp Off artists 20th-century French male musicians 20th-century French saxophonists