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Stéphane Grappelli
(Stephane 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...
Wish You Were HerePink Floyd and Stéphane Grappelli (Stephane Grappelli)
Wish You Were Here
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I Can't Give You Anything But LoveStéphane Grappelli and Joe Venuti (Stephane Grappelli)
Stephane Grappelli & Friends
8:32
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)Stéphane Grappelli and Barney Kessel (Stephane Grappelli)
Stéphane Grapelly: 1935-1940
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Exactly Like YouDjango Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (Stephane Grappelli)
Parisian Swing
2:31
It Had to Be YouDjango Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (Stephane Grappelli)
Stephane Grappelli & Friends
2:54
Hot LipsDjango Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli (Stephane Grappelli)
Stephane Grappelli & Friends
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