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Benny Bennet
(CHEFS D’ORCHESTRES)
8 Rue Aristide Bruant, 75018 Paris, France

Born in Venezuela, Benny Bennet was an American latin-jazz bandleader, who mostly worked in France. He moved to the US when he was two years old, developing his skills as a trumpeter and percussionist in his youth. Bennet moved to France to study at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. In his early years in France he joined Hubert Fol and his Be-bop Minstrels, and would go on to record with Don Byas, Roy Eldrige, James Moody, and Clifford Brown. After forming his own orchestra, he toured throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and then led the orchestra at the Moulin Rouge in Paris for 3 years. Known as the King of Mambo in France, he released a number of excellent singles in the 1960s on Vogue Records. He returned to the US in 1967, and was a waiter at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.