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Jacky Samson (April 11, 1943, in Paris – October 3, 2012) was a French jazz double-bassist.

Career

Samson studied bass in Versailles. He was the bassist in Georges Arvanitas's trio for nearly thirty years starting in 1965, playing with Dexter Gordon, Hank Mobley, and Albert Nicholas, among others. Outside of this association, he also performed or recorded in the 1960s and 1970s with François Biensan, Milt Buckner, Jimmy Dawkins, Maynard Ferguson, François Guin, Slide Hampton, Michel Hausser, Guy Lafitte, and Jean-Claude Naude. Later in his career, he became a professor in Orly.

Death

He died on October 3, 2012, in Précy-sous-Thil, Côte-d'Or, France.

References

1. "Jacky Samson". www.jazzhot.net. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
2. Heath, Jimmy; McLaren, Joseph. I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0199-1.
3. McGregor, Elizabeth Vihlen (2016-06-23). Jazz and Postwar French Identity: Improvising the Nation. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-2877-1.
4. "Jacky Samson 1940-2012". organissimo forums. 9 October 2012. Retrieved 2020-02-27.

• Michel Laplace, "Jacky Samson". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.

• French jazz double-bassists
• French male double-bassists
• Musicians from Paris
• French male jazz musicians
• 1943 births
• Living people