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Stéphane Grappelli
One of jazz's most revered heroes, innovative French violinist Stéphane
Grappelli firmly established the violin as a jazz instrument in partnership with
gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. Styling a new kind of string music born of the
streets, the pair brought a different form of swing to jazz in the Quintette du
Hot Club de Paris and Grappelli's free-form playing came to influence many
younger artists from different musical genres, even playing on Pink Floyd's
'Wish You Were Here' album.
Born in Paris to a French mother and an Italian father, he studied dance with
Isadora Du...
Bye Bye BlackbirdToots Thielemans and Stéphane Grappelli
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Careless LoveStéphane Grappelli and Svend Asmussen
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She's Funny That WayStéphane Grappelli
Improvisations
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Bye Bye BlackbirdStéphane Grappelli and Yehudi Menuhin
Strictly for the Birds
2:55
Sheik of Araby
Boulou Ferré, Stéphane Grappelli and Django ReinhardtI Got Rhythm
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Honeysuckle RoseQuintet of the Hot Club of France, Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt
Quintet Du Hot Club De France (paris-Londres 1935-1938)
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