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Place of Birth: 9th arrondissement of Paris, Île-de-France, France
About François Jeanneau
- François Jeanneau (born June 15, 1935, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Jeanneau studied flute under René Leroy at the Paris Conservatory, but was an autodidact on saxophone.
- He began playing professionally in 1960 at the Club Saint Germain, then worked in the big band of Jef Gilson and in a sextet with François Tusques.
- In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was a member of the band Triangle (fr).
- He won the Prix Django Reinhardt in 1980 and was the first leader of the Orchestre National de Jazz in 1986.
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