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J.-F. Jenny-Clark

real name Jean-François Jenny-Clark

Toulouse, France

J.-F. Jenny-Clark is credited on 510 releases across 107 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1966–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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510

Credits

107

Albums

7

Decades active

21

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Biography

French jazz double bass player, born 12 July 1944 in Toulouse, France, died 6 October 1998 in Paris, France.
Jean-François "J.F." Jenny-Clark was a French double bass player who appeared, estimated as one of the most important bass players of European jazz.
Together with drummer Aldo Romano he provided the rhythm section for Don Cherry's European quintet of 1965, recorded with Steve Lacy and performed concerts with Keith Jarrett (around 1970) and for Jasper van't Hof's group Pork Pie (with Charlie Mariano) (around 1975).
As a member of Diego Masson's Ensemble Musique Vivante he was interpreting contemporary music compositions by John Cage, Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, or Vinko Globokar.
Together with Albert Mangelsdorff he led the German-French jazz ensemble, 1984 to 1987. Since 1985 Jenny-Clark was mainly working in an acclaimed trio with German pianist Joachim Kühn and Swiss drummer Daniel Humair.

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510 releases · 107 albums · active 1966–2025

  • Performance · 618
  • Other credits · 10

Studios: Studio Davout · Tonstudio Bauer · Studio Acousti · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

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