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Stephan Grapelli: Life And Love Of Jazz
Stephan Grapelli: Life and Love of Jazz
When jazz erupted in America, its fault lines spread at an astonishing rate. (The music was being played in the Yokohama, Japan, as early as 1920.) The first country where the music really took root abroad and fed a significant influence back to America was France, where the Gypsy guitar of Django Reinhardt and the mellifluous, swinging violin of Stephane Grappelli took flight. Along with Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith and Claude Williams, Grappelli defined the role of swing jazz violin.
Grappelli was born Jan. 26, 1908, in Paris. He had some formal training, but was largely self-taught, playing piano, then violin, from 1927, for silent pictures and in dance bands. A backstage jam session with Reinhardt, in which the two experimented with the already established guitar/violin style of Venuti and Eddie Lang, led to the formation of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, which performed and recorded until 1939. The Hot Club recordings,......
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