Stéphane Grappelli
By Stuart Kremsky
Looking back at his long career in the front ranks of jazz improvisers, the ebullient and elegant violinist Stéphane Grappelli noted that he was proud of having performed alongside some of the greatest pianists in the history of the music. Grappelli had played with them all, from Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Errol Garner and Oscar Peterson, to modernists like Martial Solal and McCoy Tyner. But the man who continued to perfect his art throughout his life and whose improvisations could attain, in Whitney Balliett’s words, “a controlled ecstasy,” is invariably remembered as the counterpart to the innovative guitarist Django... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Paris, France
- Genre:
- Jazz, Swing
- Birthdate:
- 01/26/1908
- Death date:
- 12/01/1997
