Jacques Gauthe

Jacques Gauthé (12 June 1939, Gaujac - 10 June 2007, Gaujac ) was a French jazz reedist.

Gauthé studied under Claude Luter and Sidney Bechet as a teenager, and formed his own band in 1957, which played with Don Byas, Mezz Mezzrow, Albert Nicholas, Lucky Thompson, and Benny Waters. In the 1960s he formed a new ensemble, the Old Time Jazz Band, which included Enzo Mucci and Claude Tissendier as sid… More