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Stéphane Grappelli (French pronunciation: [stefan ɡʁapɛli]; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands.
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Jazz violin and jazz violinists began to appear in groups in New Orleans in the early 1900s. Early ragtime orchestras often included violin and the big bands of Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Earl Hines, and others had violin sections – though the violin was not usually utilized as an improvising instrument. It was in the late1920’s and ’30s, that indiv...
Stéphane Grappelli was the son of an Italian nobleman (a scholar and philosopher), and his French wife, who died when Stéphane was 5 years old. At the death of his wife, Grappelli’s father left him with acclaimed dancer, Isadora Duncan, who enrolled young Stéphane in her dancing school. When Duncan left France for America shortly after, Grappelli w...
Grappelli began lessons on the violin at age 12. He was also was very interested in the street violinists and started modeling his playing after them. He was trained at the Paris Conservatory and graduated with a medal in 1920.
Grappelli began busking at the age of 15, and played in pit orchestras and hotel orchestras. Interested in all kinds of music, in 1928 he heard jazz violinist, Joe Venuti, when solo jazz violinists were rare. In 1931 he met gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Reinhardt and Grappelli formed one of the first all-string jazz bands, Quintette du Hot...
Classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, a great admirer of Grappelli’s improvisation skills, once commented, "Stéphane is like one of those jugglers who send 10 plates into the air and recovers them all.” His jazz style largely self-taught, Grappelli’s playing mixed a lyricism and fast (hot) swing that made him a living legend of jazz in France as well...
Throughout his career, Grappelli played on hundreds of recordings, including sessions with Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, and Claude Bolling, jazz violinists Jean-Luc Ponty, and Stuff Smith, pop singer Paul Simon, orchestral conductor André Previn, guitar player Joe Pass, cello player Yo Yo Ma, and fiddler Mark O’Connor, to name just a few. Grappe...
Stéphane Grappelli continued performing and staging concerts around the world well into his 80s. On his 85th birthday, he was asked if he was considering retirement. Grappelli replied, "Retirement! There isn't a word that is more painful to my ears. Music keeps me going. It has given me everything. It's my fountain of youth." Top photo by Allen War...
May 17, 2018 · Recognition and Collaboration. Selected discography. Sources. The only virtuoso violinist in jazz history to inspire four generations of musicians, Stephane Grappelli has achieved international renown as much for his longevity as a public performer as for his distinctive improvisatory style.
Nov 29, 2023 · French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. Photo: Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty.
Stephane Grappelli is a legendary jazz violinist (ranking alongside Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith and Stuff Smith as one the three greats of pre-bop). His perseverance and enthusiastic playing helped establish the violin’s status as a jazz instrument.
Sep 20, 2017 · Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.
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Violinist and pianist Stéphane Grappelli was born in Paris. Largely self-taught as a musician, he also briefly attended the Paris Conservatoire. After working in silent cinemas and dance bands in the 1920s he joined the Gregorians big band, initially as pianist but later focusing on violin.
