Beb Guérin
Appearance
Bernard "Beb" Guérin (December 22, 1941, La Rochelle - November 14, 1980, Paris) was a French jazz double-bassist.
Beb Guérin first began playing bass at age 23, working in the 1960s with Sonny Criss, Jacques Coursil, François Tusques, Alan Silva, and Claude Delcloo later in the decade, as well as with free jazz groups in Paris clubs. In the early 1970s he worked with Ambrose Jackson, Steve Lacy, Sunny Murray, Sonny Sharrock, Archie Shepp, Alan Shorter, and Clifford Thornton, and worked frequently with Michel Portal for most of the 1970s.[1]
References
- ^ Michel Laplace, "Beb Guerin". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.