French drummer, born in Grenoble (France) on March 30, 1943. Also Doctor of Letters and Humanities at the Sorbonne – Paris IV – with his thesis "La Genèse du Rythme et l’anthropologie gestuelle". He built his career playing in France, during the 60s, in Parisian jazz clubs, with many American and french musicians such as Phil Woods, Art Farmer, Tony Scott, Mal Waldron, Freddy Reed, Sonny Criss, Hampton Hawes, Bill Coleman, Pierre Michelot, Henry Texier, Michel de Villers etc. In 1984 he founded a trio that would last for twelve years, with pianist Jean-Christophe Levinson and legendary bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark.