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Francis Dreyfus dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 29 June 2010
French producer, label owner and music publisher Francis Dreyfus has died, aged 69.
Through his record and publishing companies, Dreyfus worked with the likes of David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens, and produced albums by big French artists like Alain Bashung and Christophe. Since the early nineties he concentrated on jazz releases, and worked with the likes of Marcus Miller, Steve Grossman, Richard Galliano and Alan Stivell. He also helped set up SPPF, the French independent labels collecting society.
But Dreyfus is probably best known for his long association with Jean-Michel Jarre. He published Jarre’s seminal album ‘Oxygene’, and worked with the electronica icon of a range of recording and concert projects.
Paying tribute to Dreyfus yesterday, SPPF Director General Jerome Roger said, according to Billboard: “Way before anyone, [Dreyfus] had a global vision of the work of a music producer”.
