Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French saxophonist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-Claude Fohrenbach
- Jean-Claude Fohrenbach (January 5, 1925, Paris - March 30, 2009, Villiers-le-Duc) was a French jazz saxophonist. Fohrenbach learned clarinet, piano, tenor saxophone, and violin as a child, concentrating on tenor sax once he began playing full-time in the mid-1940s.
- Early in his career he played with Eddie Bernard and Django Reinhardt before landing a regular gig at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris as the leader of a seven-piece ensemble from 1949 to 1951.
- After this residency he worked with Claude Bolling, Jack Diéval, Jonah Jones, and Martial Solal in the early and mid-1950s.
- In the 1960s he performed with Georges Arvanitas, Eric Dolphy, and Sonny Stitt, but quit performing between 1966-1972.
- Beginning in the late 1970s he worked as an educator, teaching jazz improvisation.
- He was the keyboard and saxophonist of the singer Jean Ferrat during the composer's career.
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