Hubert Rostaing

Hubert Rostaing was a French jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist. Born in Lyon, he grew up in Algiers, where he learned to play clarinet and saxophone. After moving to Paris, Rostaing took the place of Stéphane Grappelli in Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France and performed with them on and off from 1940 to 1948. Roastaing then worked as a bandleader, performing in collaboration with André Hodeir, among others. Outside jazz, he also performed rock and roll and classical music. In the last part of his life, he worked as a composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and music director on 53 films and television series before his death from liver cancer in Paris.