Trombonists · b. 1938

François Guin

French conductor and trumpeter

Born: 18 May 1938
Contres
Country: France
Record labels: Black & Blue

Biography

François Guin is a jazz musician who plays trombone. François Guin was born on 18 May 1938 in Contres. The music is usually filed under jazz. Record labels: Black & Blue. Honours include Prix Django Reinhardt (1970) and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

François Guin (born May 18, 1938, in Contres) is a French jazz musician and bandleader. Guin is a musical polymath, having learned violin, piano, voice, trombone, trumpet, and flute. As a trumpeter, he worked with Marc Laferrière in 1957, then switched to trombone to work with Raymond Fonsèque from 1959 to 1962. During this time he also played with Christian Chevallier, Jacques Denjean, Jacques Hélian, and Daniel Janin. Later in the 1960s he worked with Duke Ellington, Luis Fuentes, Michel Legrand, and Gerry Mulligan. In the 1970s, he played with Bill Coleman and Claude Bolling, and led his own ensemble, Four Bones, which was formed in 1967 and continued into the 1990s. Late in the 1970s he played in Les Petits Français with Moustache and Georges Brassens. In 1985 he took a position as a pedagogue at the Châteauroux conservatory, remaining there until 1997.

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