Frank Ténot

Person in charge of press, pataphysician and critical of Jazz, Frank Ténot (Mulhouse, October 31st 1925 - Paris, January 8th 2004) directed many publications during his long association with Daniel Filipacchi.

He was at the origin with Filipacchi of the phenomenon “Salut the buddies” with the beginning of the year 1960, his activities went from the radio to the edition.

Biography

He discovers the Jazz in Bordeaux where he becomes in 1944 president of the Hot club. Installed in Paris after the war, it is at the same time employed there with the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and sub-editor to the review Jazz Hot , at the side of Boris Vian with which it discovers the 'Pataphysique.

In the years 1950, it binds with Filipacchi, press photographer, and enters with him to the review Jazz Magazine that the two men will end up repurchasing.

They then animate on Europe 1 the emission “ For those which like the jazz ”, then “ Salut the buddies ”, whose enormous success near youth involves the publication of the review of the same name and makes it possible the two associated ones to create an press group to which Him , Pariscope , Union or Photo belonged. They will repurchase Paris-Match in 1976 before joining Matra and taking the control of Hachette by creating the press group Hatchet-Filipacchi .

With its accomplice Daniel Filipacchi, it was even tested as lyric writer. They wrote together a text whose author is “officially” some Frank Daniel , entitled Count Basie and sang by Henri Salvador on an air, precisely, of Count Basie: Lil' Darlin' .

Ténot, in its eclecticism pataphysic, produced with the Olympia, in the concerts of Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong or Sylvie Vartan, he was president of Europe 1 during several years, contributed to create Europe 2 , chaired a management company, had founded the Éditions of the Forester , held a regular heading in Jazz Magazine (of which there remained director) and in Jazzman , had become “Provéditeur” of the Collège of' Pataphysique, had created a “Ténot Foundation” (based with Marnay, village of which it was city council man), and had contributed, with Jean-François Bizot, to create the Parisian radio station TSF 89.9 , devoted to the jazz which it liked, and all its life illustrated defended.

He was mayor of the Marnay-on-Seine of 1995 to 2001.

Frank Ténot wrote its autobiography, “I wanted to know some more” (1997).

Writings

Dictionary of the Jazz 1967
private Radios, pirate radios 1977
Jazz encyclopoche 1977
the jazz 1983
Boris Vian Jazz in Saint-Germain 1993
I wanted to know 1997 more of it
Frankly speaking 2002

External bond

Biography of Bessie Smith

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