Biography
Les Haricots Rouges
Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 1987
Members: Gérard Tarquin, Gilbert Leroux, Patrick Geoffroy, Jean François Rabre, Pierre Jean, Alain Poisson, Claude Fontaine, Daniel Barda, Jérôme Etcheberry, Michel Senamaud, Christophe Deret, Jean Dufour (2), Alain Huguet, Denis Carterre, Norbert Congrega
Les Haricots Rouges is a French group of New Orleans jazz and dixieland, formed in 1963.They have sold over one million albums worldwide in fifty year career (two millions with cassettes and vinyl), and celebrated their fifty years of existence in 2013, with the release of a new album ("French Melodie"s). A new album was released in 2020.
Many French trad jazz musicians have been members of this renowned group over their long career.