François Jeanneau has been played on NTS in shows including Arp, featured first on 12 April 2014. Songs played include Le Cyclope and Le Gorille.

François Jeanneau is a french saxophonist, born june 15 1935 in Paris

Studied piano classically and at university (Musicologie teaching diploma awarded in 1977) Was awarded the Django prize by the Académie du Jazz (1980) Was the chief of the first ONJ (Orchestre National de Jazz) Has had lengthy collaborations with avec J.P. Celea : J. Thollot’s quartet, duos, groups with Daniel Humair and F. Jeanneau, then with D. Pifarély and F. Laizeau, created the group “Passagio” (with W. Reisinger, A. Angster, F. Kübler). Toured world-wise and recorded (81-83) with John Mc Laughlin’s band. Played with Jeanneau’s, E. Louiss’, D. Levallet’s and Anouar Brahem’s orchestras. In 1997, with J.M. Larché he composed the music for an opera based on Anthony Burgess’ “Mozart Et Amadeus” (libretto by P. Gumplowicz), then formed Wolf Gang Trio with J.M. Larché and J.L. Matinier (Coutances, Besançon, Rome Festivals…) as well as an octet for the Orléans Festival 99 (WGT + J. Di Donato a string quartet). In 2000 he founded a quartet with Larry Schneider, F. Méchali and F. Laiseau Since 1985, he’s been working on various project with D. Pifarély : formed an acoutic duo (‘Poros’ CD, ECM), played in France and abroard (shows in Japan, London, Batz, Vienne, Milan, Munich…) he created various projects around this duo with D. Visse, D. Humair, L. Sclavis, F. Corneloup…