SERGE GAINSBOURG (1928/1991) & BORIS VIAN (1920/1959): A - Lot 118

SERGE GAINSBOURG (1928/1991) & BORIS VIAN (1920/1959): A cornet à piston belonging to the jazz and dance club "Le Tabou", located at 33 rue Dauphine in Paris. Inaugurated on April 11, 1947, this Parisian club quickly became a favorite meeting place for night owls and intellectuals. A Mecca for existentialists. Among the first musicians to perform there was Boris Vian, who founded a small jazz orchestra with his brothers. Juliette Gréco recited poems by Raymond Queneau and sang songs by Jacques Prévert. When Boris Vian died in June 1959, pianist Henri Renaud gave Serge Gainsbourg his first trumpet à Piston and Juliette Gréco this cornet à piston, because it was with these trumpets that Vian accompanied Gainsbourg or Juliette Gréco when they performed their first songs on the Tabou stage. The instruments are engraved with the words "Boris Vian & Serge Gainsbourg - Le Tabou 1953". In original case. Historic piece. As is.