Sylvain Beuf (born April 6, 1964, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Beuf studied classical music in Orsay and jazz music at CIM with Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Bernard Maury, and Claude Tissendier among others. He is a prolific composer and leads ensembles of several sizes which play regularly at international jazz festivals. In 1993, he won the Django Reinhardt award for French musician of the year. He is now the director of the jazz department at the conservatoire de Versailles. Musicians he has worked with include Martial Solal, René Urtreger, Michel Legra…
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