Artist: Stephane Grappelli: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Discography: Fine and Dandy Year: 2002 Tracks: 15 It Might As Well Be Swing Year: 1996 Tracks: 11 All Of Me Year: 1988 Tracks: 10 Stephanova Year: 1983 Tracks: 12 Plays Cole Porter Year: 1976 Tracks: 12 Shades of Django Year: 1975 Tracks: 13 Parisian Thoroughfare Year: 1973 Tracks: 11 I Hear Music Year: 1971 Tracks: 11 Afternoon in Paris Year: 1971 Tracks: 10 Live at the Blue Note Year: Tracks: 6 Jazz Masters 11 Year: Tracks: 14 One of the all-time great unwarranted words violinists (ranking with Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith as one of the heavy trine of pre-bop), Stéphane Grappelli's longevity and consistently enthusiastic playing did a with kid deal to establish the fiddle as a jazz instrument. He was in the beginning self-taught as both a fiddler and a piano player, although during 1924-28 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Grappelli played in pic theaters and dance bands earlier meeting guitar player Django Reinhardt in 1933. They hit it off musically from the begin tied though their lifestyles (Grappelli was sophisticated piece Django was a romany) were selfsame different. Together as Quintet of the Hot Club of France (comprised of violin, trey acoustic guitars and bass) during 1933-39 they produced a sensory series of recordings and performances. During a London betrothal in 1939, World War II skint out. Reinhardt headlong distinct to try to France just Grappelli stayed in England, efficaciously closing the grouping. The violinist presently teamed up with the young piano player George Shearing in a new dance orchestra that worked steadily through the war. In 1946, Grappelli and Reinhardt had the low gear of several reunions although they ne'er worked together over again on a regular basis (despite many new recordings). Grappelli performed passim the fifties and '60s in clubs end-to-end Europe and, other than recordings with Duke Ellington (Violin Summit) and Joe Venuti, he remained reasonably quarantined in the U.S. until he began regularly touring the universe in the early '70s. Since so Grappelli has been a constant traveller and a consistent poll-winner, left very open-minded without altering his sweep stylus; he has recorded with David Grisman, Earl Hines, Bill Coleman, Larry Coryell, Oscar Peterson, Jean Luc Ponty and McCoy Tyner among many others. Active up until nigh the end, the more and more imperfect Grappelli remained at the top of his flying field regular when he was 89. His early recordings are all available on Classics CDs and he recorded quite an extensively during his last trine decades. |
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
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