Jean-Claude Pelletier (Piano)
269 Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France

French jazz pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Jean-Claude Pelletier began his music studies at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris aged just ten years old. He studied piano, music theory and harmony at the Conservatoire until 1948. After playing in jazz orchestras and with his own trio, he worked as an arranger for the Columbia label in 1956 then for Vogue in 1958. In the 1960s his orchestras accompanied a number of popular singers including Annie Fratellini, Guy Béart, Rosy Armen, Line Renaud and Georgette Plana. He composed scores for more than 20 films and TV series, including Le Paria, a.k.a. Diamond Rush (1969) starring Jean Marais.

Alfred Farrugia – Piano
269 Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France

Pianist Alfred Farrugia worked with both harmonica player Claude Garden and singer Antoine (Pierre Antoine Muraccioli) in the 1960s. Not to be confused with the composer and conductor of the same name specializing in wind band repertoire.

Marcel Blanche (Batterie)
271 Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France

Drummer Marcel Blanche played with some of the greatest French jazz talent as well as visiting American frontmen such as Sidney Bechet and Barney Kessel. Like his neighbours at 269 Av. Daumesni, Blanche played with both Claude Garden and the Jean-Claude Pelletier Trio.

Paul Rovère – Contrebasse
271 Av. Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France

Another jazz musician living in this little corner of Paris, bassist Paul Rovere completes the rhythm section of the Claude Garden band! He too played with the creme de la creme of the American (Lionel Hampton, Jackie McLean, etc) and French (Guy Lafitte, René Urtreger, Barney Wilen, Martial Solal, etc) jazz glitterati, as well mainstream personalities like Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel.

Henri-Charles Richard and Richard Puydorat (PRODUCTEURS ET PRESENTATEURS DE L’O.R.T.F.)
3bis Rue du Colonel Oudot, 75012 Paris, France

Two writers at the same address isn’t unusual, but something makes you think that this is really one person (with two names). Henri-Charles Richard mostly adapted novels for the theatre and radio, including Peter Cheyney’s eponymous novel Robert Le Flon at the Théâtre des Noctambules. While Richard Puydorat adapted work for television.

Jean Claudric (CHEFS D’ORCHESTRES)
7bis Rue du Colonel Oudot, 75012 Paris, France

Arranger, conductor, and songwriter Jean Claudric worked with many of the greats in French light-entertainment music, most notably Enrico Macias, Charles Trenet, and Mireille Mathieu. He was involved as an arranger and conductor in the Eurovision Song Contest on multiple occasions and for various countries (including the first and only Moroccan participation in 1980).

Xavier Smati (ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
16 Bd Soult, 75012 Paris, France

In WW2 Xavier Smati was a popular opera singer in Vichy France, the Southern area that was ruled by a collaborationist government during the Nazi occupation. He took roles in Carcassonne, Albi and was first bass at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. After the war his powerful bass-baritone voice was a regular presence on the stage of the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

Lino Pirollo – Accessoires vibra timbales
9 Rue Ernest Lefébure, 75012 Paris, France

Percussionist Lino Pirollo worked with both the French jazz guitarist Marcel Bianchi and singer-songwriter Georges Brassens, playing glockenspiel on his 1963 release Georges Brassens Dit Par Denise Benoit. In the 1970s, like other Parisian instrumentalists, Pirollo tried his hand at Library Music, composing the track Nez Au Vent for the 1972 Chappell release Telecineradio Volume 18.