Born : August 11, 1928 in Joinville le Pont, France.

French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He begins his music studies at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris at the age of 10 in 1938. He studied piano, music theory and harmony there until 1948. After playing in jazz orchestras, he worked as an arranger for the Columbia label in 1956 then for Vogue in 1958. He has arranged for cinema, television or popular music. He died on October 8, 1982.