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Stéphane Grappelli

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Year of Birth:1908
Year of death:1997

Biography

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In the twenties played Stephane Grappelli (1908) as a violinist and pianist in bars and clubs in Paris. There he met guitarist Django Reinhardt, with whom he founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. This was one of the first jazz bands whose members played only stringed instruments. Their music was a unique mix of gypsy music and jazz improvisation and formed the basis for the gypsymore

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  • Stephan Grappelly
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