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Stéphane Grappelli
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French jazz violinist (1908–1997)
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Stéphane Grappelli was a French male musician associated with jazz, swing, and gypsy jazz. His musical style is also described as continental jazz and French. He was born on January 26, 1908, and died on December 1, 1997.
Grappelli is credited with three works in Open Library records, including *Stephane Grappelli Violin Play-Along Volume 15* and *Grappelli Story*. Crossref data lists five works for the author. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with jazz, violin, gypsy jazz, swing, and jazz violin. The artist has 120,750 listeners and 843,218 playcounts on that platform.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Stephane Grappelli Violin Play-Along Volume 15
- Grappelli Story
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1908-01-26
- Active to
- 1997-12-01
Discography
- Star Eyes / That Old Black Magic / Blue Skies / Heavenly Music / I Cried For You / Confessin1948
- Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir1960
- Two of a Kind1965
- Le toit de Paris1969
- I Remember Django1970
- Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelly1971
- Afternoon in Paris1971
- Hommage à Django Reinhardt1972
- Paris Encounter1972
- Jealousy: Hits of the Thirties1973
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 120,750
- Total plays
- 843,218
Tags
Stéphane Grappelli (26 January, 1908 – 1 December, 1997) was a pioneering jazz violinist who founded with Django Reinhardt in 1934 the "Quintette du Hot Club de France", it was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his 80s. For the first three decades of his career, he was billed using a gallicised spelling of his last name, Grappelly, reverting to "Grappelli" in 1969. <a href="htt
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0
· 2010 · cited 16,968x
- A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood
· 2003 · cited 14,370x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,574x
- Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2010 · cited 10,046x
- Spontaneous Initiation of Atrial Fibrillation by Ectopic Beats Originating in the Pulmonary Veins
· 1998 · cited 6,206x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1908-01-26 ) 26 January 1908, Paris , France
- Died
- 1 December 1997 (1997-12-01) (aged 89), Paris, France
- Genres
- Swing , continental jazz , gypsy jazz
- Occupation
- Musician
- Instruments
- Violin, piano, saxophone, accordion
- Formerly of
- Django Reinhardt , Quintette du Hot Club de France , Yehudi Menuhin , Oscar Peterson , David Grisman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stéphane
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- Gypsy jazz
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- MPS Records
- Image
- Stephane Grappelli Allan Warren.jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
Show 8 more facts
- Commons category
- Stéphane Grappelli
- date of birth
- 1908-01-26
- date of death
- 1997-12-01
- name in native language
- Stéphane Grappelli
- member of
- Quintette du Hot Club de France
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- P8168
- John R. McBride
- social media followers
- 7760
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Stéphane Grappelli ( French pronunciation: [stefan ɡʁapɛli]; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.
For the first three decades of his career, he was billed using a gallicised spelling of his last name, Grappelly, reverting to the Italian spelling Grappelli in 1969. The latter is used when referring to the violinist, including reissues of his early work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stéphane Grappelli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.