Jean-François "J.F." Jenny-Clark (12 July 1944 in Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

, France – 6 October 1998 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

) 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

Aldo Romano

Aldo Romano is a jazz drummer. He also started a rock group in 1971.-Biography:He moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but his career gained notice when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He recorded with Steve Lacy and...

 he provided the rhythm section for Don Cherry

Don Cherry (jazz)

Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...

's European quintet of 1965, recorded with Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

 and performed concerts with Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

 (around 1970) and for Jasper van 't Hof

Jasper van 't Hof

Jasper van 't Hof is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard-player.Van 't Hof was born in Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands, and began studying piano at the age of five. He was playing in jazz bands in school, and by the age of 19 was playing at jazz festivals with drummer Pierre Courbois...

's group Pork Pie (with Charlie Mariano

Charlie Mariano

Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....

) (around 1975).

As a member of Diego Masson

Diego Masson

Diego Masson is a French conductor, composer, and percussionist.The son of artist André Masson and brother of the singer and actor Luís Masson, Diego Masson studied piano and composition at the Paris Conservatoire...

s ensemble Musique Vivante he was interpreting contemporary music compositions by John Cage

John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

, Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

, Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...

, Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...

, or Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...

.

Together with Albert Mangelsdorff

Albert Mangelsdorff

Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...

 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

Joachim Kühn

-Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician....

 and Swiss drummer Daniel Humair

Daniel Humair

Daniel Humair is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy....

.

Discography

Title	Artists	Year
Togetherness	Gato Barbieri Gato Barbieri Leandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...  & Don Cherry Don Cherry (jazz) Donald Eugene Cherry was an innovative African-American jazz cornetist whose career began with a long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. He went on to live in many parts of the world and work with a wide variety of musicians.-Biography:Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and...	1965
Symphony for Improvisers Symphony for Improvisers Symphony for Improvisers is an album by Don Cherry featuring Gato Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, Karl Berger, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label...	Don Cherry	1966
New Feelings	Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini is an Italian jazz pianist and composer.He began performing at 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s Gaslini performed with his own quartet...	1966
Zodiac	Barney Wilen Barney Wilen Barney Wilen was a French tenor and soprano saxophonist and jazz composer.Wilen was born in Nice; his father was an American dentist turned inventor, and his mother was French. He began performing in clubs in Nice after being encouraged by Blaise Cendrars who was a friend of his mother...	1966
Le Départ Bande Originale du Film	Krzysztof Komeda Krzysztof Komeda Krzysztof Komeda was a Polish film music composer and jazz pianist. Perhaps best-known for his work in film scores, Komeda wrote the scores for Roman Polanski’s films Rosemary’s Baby, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Knife in the Water and Cul-de-sac...	1967
Le Nouveau Jazz	Barney Wilen	1967
Obsession	Gato Barbieri	1967
Sounds of Feeling	Joachim Kühn	1969
Bold Music	Joachim Kühn	1969
Our Meanings and our Feelings	Michel Portal Michel Portal Michel Portal is a composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist.Portal studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris...	1969
Aus des sieben Tagen	Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...	1969
Epistrophy	Steve Lacy Steve Lacy Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....	1969
Comme à la Radio	Brigitte Fontaine Brigitte Fontaine Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...	1969
Paris is Wonderful	Joachim Kühn	1970
Sans Tambours Ni Trompettes	Martial Solal Martial Solal Martial Solal is a French jazz pianist and composer, who is probably most widely known for the music he wrote for Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature film À bout de souffle .-Biography:...	1970
Orfeo Novo	Egberto Gismonti Egberto Gismonti Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...	1970
The Sun Is Coming Up	Ric Colbeck	1970
Laborintus 2	Luciano Berio Luciano Berio Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...	1970
For All It Is	Barre Phillips Barre Phillips Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....	1971
Jazzworkshop 1971	Norddeutscher Rundfunk	1971
Last Tango In Paris	Gato Barbieri	1972
Perception and Friends	Perception	1972
Bolivia	Gato Barbieri	1973
Transitory	Pork Pie	1974
Jazz a Confronto 11	Franco Ambrosetti	1974
Black Narcissus	Joe Henderson Joe Henderson Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...	1975
Three Originals	Albert Mangelsdorff	1975
Watch Devil Go	Jacques Thollot	1975
Une Bien Curieuse Planète	François Jeanneau	1975
Jazz a Confronto 15	Charlie Mariano Charlie Mariano Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....	1975
Jazz a Confronto 17 / JAC's Anthology	Ambrosetti, Griffin, Grossman, d'Andrea	1975
Jazz a Confronto 28	Paris Quartet	1975
Ad Lib	Michel Graillier	1976
Sonata Erotica	Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.- Early years:Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians on 29 September 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano...	1976
Lettres d'Amour et de Haine	Benito Merlino	1976
Ephémère	François Jeanneau	1977
Divieto Di Santificazione	Aldo Romano	1977
Invitation	Massimo Urbani	1977
Techniques Douces	François Jeanneau	1977
New Moon (Musica Records Musica Records -Discography:... )	Steve Grossman	1978
Enrico Rava Quartet Enrico Rava Quartet Enrico Rava Quartet is an album by Italian jazz trumpeter and composer Enrico Rava recorded in 1978 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:...	Enrico Rava Enrico Rava Enrico Rava , is a prolific jazz trumpeter and arguably one of the best known Italian jazz musicians. He originally played trombone, changing to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri's Italian quintet in the mid-1960s; in the late 1960s...	1978
Invitation	Siegfried Kessler	1979
Sunbird Sunbird (album) Sunbird is a studio album by pianist Gordon Beck, released in 1979 through JMS–Cream Records. This was the first time Beck worked with guitarist Allan Holdsworth, which led to two collaborative albums...	Gordon Beck Gordon Beck Gordon James Beck was an English jazz pianist.Beck was born in Brixton, London, and attended Pinner County Grammar School . He studied piano in his youth, but decided to go into a career as an engineering technical draughtsman...	1979
Il Piacere	Aldo Romano Aldo Romano Aldo Romano is a jazz drummer. He also started a rock group in 1971.-Biography:He moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but his career gained notice when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He recorded with Steve Lacy and...	1979
Around 6 Around 6 Around 6 is an album by trumpeter Kenny Wheeler recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "the sextet performs six Wheeler originals that combine together advanced swinging with fairly free explorations...	Kenny Wheeler Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....	1979
Session in Paris, vol.2 - Colour of Dream	Masahiko Togashi	1979
You Better Fly Away	Clarinet Summit	1979
In Paris vol. 2	Chet Baker Chet Baker Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...	1979
Soli Solo... Plus	Divers	1979
Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature is a work by jazz arranger George Russell originally written in 1968 and first recorded in concert in Norway on April 28, 1969 and released on the Flying Dutchman label...	George Russell Sextet	1980
En Direct d'Antibes	René Urtreger René Urtreger -Biography:Urtreger was born in Paris and began his piano studies at the age of four, studying privately first, and then at the Conservatory. He studied with an orientation toward jazz, playing in a small Parisian club, the "Sully d' Auteil." Conducted by Hubert Damisch, the Sully boasted an...	1980
Live in Montreux	Albert Mangelsdorff	1980
Michel Petrucciani	Michel Petrucciani	1981
Stress	Marius Constant Marius Constant Marius Constant was a Romanian-born French composer and conductor. Known primarily for his television soundtracks, his most widely heard score was the iconic Twilight Zone theme song....	1981
L'ombre Rouge -Bande Originale du Film	Michel Portal	1981
Dreamdrops	Michel Graillier	1982
Le Voyage Le Voyage Le Voyage is the fourth album by Paul Motian to be released on the ECM label. It was released in 1979 and features performances by Motian with Jean-François Jenny Clark and Charles Brackeen.-Reception:...	Paul Motian Paul Motian Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...	1986
Easy To Read	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1986
Unison	Jean-François Jenny-Clark	1987
Men's Land	Michel Portal	1987
Welcome	Fasoli, Wheeler, Humair, Jenny-Clark	1987
Turbulence	Michel Portal	1987
9.11 pm Town Hall	Portal, Ducret Marc Ducret Marc Ducret is a jazz, and avant garde, guitarist, self-taught, who is most well known for his work with saxophonist Tim Berne.-Selected discography:As leader2011 Tower, vol.2... , Kühn etc.	1988
Til C.	Grand Orchestre Bekummernis	1988
Just Friends	Helen Merrill Helen Merrill Helen Merrill is an internationally known jazz vocalist.Merrill's recording career has spanned six decades and she is popular with fans of jazz in Japan and Italy as well as in her native United States...	1989
From Time to Time Free	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1989
Live au Thèâtre de la Ville	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1989
La Petite Bouteille de Linge	John Greaves John Greaves (musician) John Greaves is a British bass guitarist and composer, best known as a member of Henry Cow and his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad...	1990
Land	Claudio Fasoli Claudio Fasoli Claudio Fasoli is an Italian saxophonist and original member of the jazz fusion group Perigeo.Since then he has released a number of solo albums, some for Soul Note.-References:...	1990
Destroy	Blue Ensemble	1990
Assolutamente	Jean Schwarz	1990
Years Old	Georges Paczynski	1991
Autumn in Paris	Masahiko Togashi	1991
Sans Titre	Mudai Trio	1992
Ternaire	Friedman, Humair, Jenny-Clark	1992
Carambolage	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1992
Euro African Suite	Joachim Kühn Joachim Kühn -Biography:Kühn was a musical prodigy and made his debut as a concert pianist, having studied classical piano and composition with Arthur Schmidt-Elsey. Influenced by his elder brother, clarinetist Rolf Kühn, he simultaneously got interested in jazz. In 1961 he became a professional jazz musician....  and Ray Lema Ray Lema Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga, known as Ray Lema, is a Congolese musician born March 30, 1946 in Lufu-Toto, Bas-Congo Province.Lema is a pianist, guitarist, and songwriter. He worked for the National Ballet of Zaire, as it was then called, and in 1979 was invited to the United States by the...	1992
Domaines	Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...	1992
A Winter's Tale	Tony Hymas Tony Hymas Anthony 'Tony' Hymas is an English keyboard player, pianist, composer and is well known for being a founding member of Ph.D. He is a very versatile musician and contributes in different styles of music....  / Jacques Thollot	1992
Nemo	Rémi Charmasson	1993
Sokoa Tanz	Blue Ensemble	1993
Usual Confusion	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1993
The Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark Collection	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1993
Canto	Jean Schwarz	1993
Open Architecture	Humair, Bergonzi, Jenny-Clark	1993
Seventy	Charlie Mariano	1993
Le Vivre	Nelly Pouget	1993
Any Way	Michel Portal	1993
Surrounded 1964 - 1987	Daniel Humair Daniel Humair Daniel Humair is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy....	1994
Half a Lifetime	Fredy Studer et Christy Doran	1994
Levin'Song	Paczynski, Levinson, Jenny-Clark	1994
Dernier Carat	Jenny-Clark, Adam, Guédon	1994
Les Jardins du Casino	Harry Beckett Harry Beckett Harold Winston "Harry" Beckett was a British trumpeter and flugelhorn player.-Biography:A resident in the UK since 1954, Harry Beckett had an international reputation. In 1961, he played with Charles Mingus in the film All Night Long. In the 1960s he worked and recorded within the band of bass...	1995
Un Ciel de Traine	Philippe Ducourtioux	1995
Europeana	Mike Gibbs w/ Joachim Kühn	1995
Robert Kaddouch sur France-Musique	Robert Kaddouch	1995
Dolorès	Jean-Louis Murat Jean-Louis Murat Not to be confused with Jean-Paul MaratJean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire.- Albums :...	1996
Anniversary	Flavio Ambrosetti	1996
Musique de l'Opéra de Quat'Sous	Kühn - Humair - Jenny-Clark	1996
Versions Jane	Jane Birkin Jane Birkin Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...	1996
Tomorrowland	Jasper Van't Hof	1996
Quatre Fois Trois	Daniel Humair	1997
Takiya ! Tokaya !	Jean-Marc Padovani	1997
French Touch	Richard Galliano Richard Galliano Richard Galliano is a French accordionist.-Biography:He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father Lucien, an accordionist originally from Italy, living in Nice.After a long and intense period of study Richard Galliano (born December 12, 1950,...	1998
Triple Entente	Kühn / Humair / Jenny-Clark	1998
Concerts Inédits	Richard Galliano	2000
A Demain	Frédéric Escoffier	2001
Solo	Jean-François Jenny-Clark	2003