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Guy Lafitte
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Guy Lafitte's Quartet and Quintet
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Paris was loaded with French saxophonists in the years immediately after World War II. Native-born eed players included Alix Combelle, Michel de Villers, Michel Attenoux, William Boucaya, Maurice Meunier, Andre “Teddy" Hameline and Andre Debonneville, Armand Conrad, to name a handful. One of the best of the French soloists was Guy Lafitte (above). More on him in a minute. There are several reasons for the explosion of reed talent in the French capital in the late 1940s and early '50s. ...
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