Francois Jeanneau
François Jeanneau (born 15 June 1935, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer.
Jeanneau studied flute at the Conservatoire de Paris under René Le Roy, but is self-taught on saxophone. He began playing professionally in 1960 at the Club Saint-Germain in Paris, then worked in the big band of Jef Gilson and in a sextet with François Tusques. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a member of the band Triangle. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt in 1980 and was the first leader of the Orchestre National de Jazz in 1986.
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