Guy Lafitte
Guy Lafitte was a French jazz saxophonist.Career
A native of Saint-Gaudens, France, he worked with Mezz Mezzrow from 1951–1952 and Big Bill Broonzy in 1951. In 1954 he made Paris his home and worked with Lionel Hampton and Emmett Berry. He also worked with Bill Coleman and Wild Bill Davis.Discography
As leader
- Blue and Sentimental
- Les Classiques du Jazz Vol. 2 with Andre Persiany
- Melodies
- Sax: 10 Succes
- Sax and Strings
- Jambo!
- Blues
- Blues in Summertime
- Sugar and Spice
- Corps et Ame
- Happy!
- Live in France with Arnett Cobb
- Three Men On a Beat with Wild Bill Davis
- Joue Charles Trenet
- Lotus Blossom with Wild Bill Davis
- The Things We Did Last Summer
- Sax Connection
- Crossings with Pierre Boussaguet
- Au HCF Paris
- Tenor Abrubt: The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions with Arnett Cobb
- Nice Jazz 1978
As sideman
With Bill Coleman
- Jazz at Pleyel
- Saint Louis Baby
- Them Their Eyes
- Mainstream at Montreux
- Really I Do
With others
- Emmett Berry, Emmett Berry and His Orchestra
- Claude Bolling, French Jazz
- Milt Buckner, Midnight Slows Vol. 7
- Buck Clayton & Peanuts Holland, Club Session
- Jack Dieval, Jazz Aux Champs-Elysees
- Golden Gate Quartet, The Golden Gate Quartet
- Golden Gate Quartet, Spirituals
- Lionel Hampton, Recorded in Paris 1956
- Mezz Mezzrow, Swingin' with Mezz
- Sammy Price & Emmett Berry, 1956 Boogie-Woogie a La Parisienne
- Brother John Sellers, Blues and Spirituals
- Brother John Sellers, Brother John Sellers
- Lucky Thompson, Nothing but the Soul
