Jean-François Pauvros

Jean-François Pauvros is a French electric guitarist and improviser, born in 1947. A former teacher who started out playing at dances, he made his name in the 1970s with No Man's Land (1976), a duo record with percussionist Gaby Bizien that, by the musicians' own account, was made without knowledge of the British improvisers of the time. The record later appeared in Nurse With Wound's list of influences. Pauvros played in the group Catalogue with trumpeter Jac Berrocal and later formed Marteau Rouge with Jean-Marc Foussat and Makoto Sato.