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Benoît Quersin was one of the most influential bassists of the Belgian jazz scene in the post-bop era.
He played and recorded with numerous American soloists, such as Chet Baker, Lucky Thompson, Zoot Sims, Lee Konitz, Blossom Dearie, etc...
He also was active on the French and European jazz scene in general, playing with a.o. Barney Wilen, Henri Renaud, Jimmy Gourley, René Urtreger, Sacha Distel, Martial Solal, etc...
He often was associated with René Thomas, Bobby Jaspar, Francy Boland, Daniel Humair, Jacques Pelzer, etc...
He appears on numerous albums, until the sixties.
Then, he briefly was the manager of a club in Brussels, the Blue Note. He also did some jazz radio shows on the Belgian radio RTB.
He spent the last years of his life in Africa (in Zaïre mostly) doing research as an ethno-musicologist and recording hours of music, some of which was released on several albums.
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