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Michel Gaudry
French jazz musician

Michel Gaudry

Intro
French jazz musician
Genres
Music

Michel Gaudry (September 23, 1928, Eu, France - May 29, 2019, Saint-Lô) was a French jazz double-bassist.

Gaudry learned clarinet and piano as a child before switching to bass. Following studies at the Geneva Conservatory, he played with Michel Hausser, beginning his professional career in 1955. In the latter half of the 1950s he worked with Billie Holiday, Quentin Jackson, Carmen McRae, and Art Simmons. He was very active in the early 1960s, playing with Elek Bacsik, Kenny Clarke, Sonny Criss, Stephane Grappelli, Bud Powell, Stuff Smith, and Billy Strayhorn, as well as continuing a longtime slot as a member of Jack Diéval's group. In the 1970s, he played with Gérard Badini's group, Swing Machine, and was a regular performer at the Grande Parade du Jazz in Nice. In the 1980s he played with Jimmy Owens and Irvin Stokes.

In his later life, he dedicated himself to the history of World War II occupation of Normandy.