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François Tusques François (* 1938 in Paris) is a jazz pianist. He and his family came to Bretagne shortly after his birth because his father was active in the French Resistance. He later lived for two years in Afghanistan and two years in Dakar. Due to the danger, he did not attend a French school and had no formal musical education until the age of eighteen, when he began studying the piano.   He initially played in Bernard Vitet's group, the first French free jazz group (with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano). In 1965, he recorded the first French record of free collective improvisation, the album Free Jazz, with Vitet, Beb Guérin, Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, and Charles Saudrais. In 1967, he recorded the soundtrack for Jean Rollin's La Reine Des Vampires. In 1968, Sunny Murray founded the Acoustical Swing Unit, which, along with Tusques, Guérin, Vitet, and Portal, eventually included Ambrose Jackson, Alan Silva, Frank Wright, Byard Lancaster, Arthur Jones, and Earl Freeman.   When many American jazz musicians came to Paris in the late 1960s, Tusques worked with Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, and Clifford Thornton, among others.   In the early 1970s, he founded the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra with French and African musicians, which included, among others, Ambrose Jackson, Alan Silva, Frank Wright, Byard Lancaster, Arthur Jones, and Earl Freeman. Jean Méreu, Alan Silva, Denis Levaillant, Carlos Andreu, Jo Maka, Michel Marre, Adolf "Ramadolf" Winkler, Guem, Sylvain Kassap, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Bernard Vitet, Jacques Thollot, Sam Ateba, Cheikh Tidiane Fall, and Carlos Andreu. With this group, he recorded about ten albums over the course of ten years, in which different musical cultures are treated equally in the spirit of world jazz. After the oil spill caused by the Amoco Cadiz wreck, he recorded the album Après la marée noire with this group and an ensemble led by the Breton bombarde player Jean-Louis Le Vallégant.   In 1980, he performed at the Chantenay-Villedieu Festival with Violeta Ferrer, with whom he recorded the Poemas de Federico García Lorca. The following year, he recorded the music for Génération, a documentary about the events of May 1968 in Paris, with Jacques Coursil, Jean-Jacques Avenel, and Muhammad Ali. Since the mid-1980s, he formed a trio with Noel McGhee and Denis Colin, with whom he has collaborated regularly ever since.   Tusques has also worked on projects with actress and singer Isabel Juanpera and architect and visual artist Jean-Max Albert.   from Wikipedia

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