Jacques Delors

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/jacques-delors-former-european-commission-president-dies-aged-98

A jazz fan who saw Charlie Parker in Paris in 1949.

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Mike Zwerin, 2005:"A variety of very different people had in common being turned around by Bird - Jack Kerouac, Clint Eastwood, Louis Malle, Astor Piazzolla, Boris Vian, Freddie Heineken, Donald Fagen, Allen Greenspan, Donald Justice and Jacques Delors, the former prime minister of France." Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/09/arts/listening-to-bird-still-flying.html

 

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"Jacques Delors à propos de jazz"

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i14181206/jacques-delors-a-propos-de-jazz 

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Jacques Delors: Hommage à Dizzy Gillespie. 1993

Jacques Delors: Dizzy notre copain. In: Le Journal du Dimanche, [date?]

Jacques Delors: Raising jazz up to Dizzy heights. In: The European, 2001, p.14-17

Source:  https://archives.uclouvain.be/atom/index.php/hommage-a-dizzy-gillespie