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Aldo Romano
Aldo Romano
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Daniel Humair
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François Jeanneau
François Jeanneau
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Claudio Fasoli
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Enrico Rava
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Louis Sclavis
Louis Sclavis
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Michel Portal
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Martial Solal
Martial Solal
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Dominique Pifarély
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Pietro Tonolo
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Sylvain Beuf
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André Ceccarelli
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Claude Barthélémy
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Jean-Marc Padovani
Jean-Marc Padovani
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Bernard Lubat
Bernard Lubat
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Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine
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Richard Galliano
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Glenn Ferris
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Vincent Peirani
Vincent Peirani
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Alain Jean-Marie
Alain Jean-Marie
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Jef Gilson
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Jean-Michel Pilc
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Brotherhood of Breath
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Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot
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Nguyen Le
Nguyen Le
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René Urtreger
René Urtreger
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Paul Motian
Paul Motian
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David Friedman
David Friedman
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
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Michel Graillier
Michel Graillier
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Saheb Sarbib
Saheb Sarbib
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John Abercrombie
John Abercrombie
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Joachim Kühn
Joachim Kühn
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Ron McClure
Ron McClure
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Miroslav Vitouš
Miroslav Vitouš
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Tony Oxley
Tony Oxley
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Jean-Luc Ponty
Jean-Luc Ponty
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Cameron Brown
Cameron Brown
American musician
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Xavier Desandre Navarre
Xavier Desandre Navarre
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Jasper van 't Hof
Jasper van 't Hof
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Perry Robinson
Perry Robinson
American musician
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Alan Silva
Alan Silva
American musician
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Dave Holland
Dave Holland
British musician
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Han Bennink
Han Bennink
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Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer
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Dave Liebman
Dave Liebman
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Un Drame Musical Instantané
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Jim Pepper
Jim Pepper
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Ellery Eskelin
Ellery Eskelin
musician
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Didier Malherbe
Didier Malherbe
French saxophonist
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Trilok Gurtu
Trilok Gurtu
Indian musician
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Jean-Jacques Birgé
Jean-Jacques Birgé
avant-garde composer, film director, sound designer, multimedia author, record producer, synthesizer player and multi-instrumentalist
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Noah Howard
Noah Howard
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Henri Texier
French musician

Henri Texier

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Henri Texier (born 27 January 1945) is a French jazz double bassist.

At the age of sixteen, fascinated by the double bass, Texier became a self-taught bassist, crediting Wilbur Ware most as an influence. He formed his first group with Georges Locatelli, Alain Tabar-Nouval, Jean-Max Albert and Klaus Hagel, inspired by the music of Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. In spite of an almost absence of recorded documents this group represents one of the first expressions of free jazz in France (1965).

Throughout the 1970s Texier remained active in Europe on the jazz scene, performing with musicians such as Gordon Beck, John Abercrombie and Didier Lockwood, among others. In 1982 he formed a quartet with Louis Sclavis. With the trio Romano-Sclavis-Texier, he collaborated in three albums having for theme Africa as seen by the photographer Guy Le Querrec: Carnet de routes, Suite africaine and African Flashback.