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François Jeanneau

saxophones, flute · 1935 · Paris

Parisian saxophonist, flutist, and composer, trained on flute at the Conservatoire, who began at the Club Saint-Germain in 1960 and played with Jef Gilson and François Tusques. First director of the Orchestre national de jazz in 1986, he received the Django Reinhardt Prize in 1980.

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