Birthday

1923-07-23

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Biography

Claude Luter (23 July 1923 – 6 October 2006) was a jazz clarinetist who doubled on soprano saxophone. Luter was born and died in Paris. He began on trumpet, but switched to clarinet. He might be best known for being an accompanist to Sidney Bechet when he was in Paris, but he also worked with Barney Bigard and French writer and musician Boris Vian. Source: Article "Claude Luter" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.