{{Short description|French musician}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|date=November 2023}} '''Didier Levallet''' (born 19 July 1944, in Arcy-sur-Cure, France) is a French jazz double bassist, composer, arranger and leader.<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=256}}</ref>
A self-taught bassist, Levallet made his professional debut in Paris in 1969,<ref>{{cite book| first1=Ian| last1=Carr| first2=Digby| last2=Fairweather| first3=Brian| last3=Priestley| title=The rough guide to jazz| publisher=Rough Guides Ltd| isbn=1-84353-256-5| year=2004| page=[https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/472 472]| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/472}}</ref> working with such artists as Ted Curson, Johnny Griffin, Kenny Clarke, Mal Waldron, Hank Mobley, Archie Shepp, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Harry Beckett and Didier Lockwood.<ref name="LarkinJazz"/>
Levallet was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra from 1997 to 2000<ref>{{cite web |title=ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ |url=http://www.onj.org/fr/onj-daniel-yvinec |accessdate=2010-08-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709005429/http://www.onj.org/fr/onj-daniel-yvinec/ |archivedate=2010-07-09 }}</ref> He has also served as an educator at the L’École Nationale de Musique in Angoulême, and regularly hold workshops and music concerts in Cluny, France.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Brotherhood of Breath}} {{Authority control}}
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