In an archival show from 1990, Piano Jazz celebrates the centennial of Stephane Grappelli, one of the jazz world's greatest violinists. Grappelli... Stephane Grappelli On Piano Jazz Piano Jazz ...

Stéphane Grappelli was a bit of an uncle to me, a suave, elegant, exuberant, fun-loving figure who was probably the best ambassador for the violin we've ever had. When he got on a stage, he wouldn't ...

American musicians Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Claude Williams and Joe Venuti tucked the instrument under their chins in the very early days of jazz. But it was a European, Stephane Grappelli, who ...

Ben Powell has been playing the violin for a very long time. “Really in the womb my mother was teaching and I started playing when I was two," Powell said. "But I didn’t really start reading music ...

Mark O'Connor, a disciple and protege of the late Parisian jazz fiddler Stephane Grappelli, keeps the flame alive, playing the music of the legendary Hot Club of France and re-creating the master's ...

Django Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz guitarist whose centennial fell early on this year’s calendar, infuriated his closest friend and best collaborator, Stephane Grappelli, with stereotypically Gypsy-ish ...

Alyn Shipton is joined by Martin Taylor, who played with the great French violinist for several years, to discuss the long recording career of Stephane Grappelli. Show more Looking back on the long ...

The British audiophile record label Linn has a sub-imprint called Echo. This imprint is dedicated to the re-release of older label titles. It is from this considerable loam of music that these two ...

Guitarists inspired by the gypsy jazz playing of the legendary Django Reinhardt are ten-a-penny but violinists emulating the jaunty, joie-de-vivre-oozing, style of Stephane Grappelli, the other star ...

Grappelli was a French swing violinist who formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s. ByJohn Wilson BBC Radio 4's Front Row A long-lost recording of virtuoso jazz violinist Stephane ...

In 1979 an exciting performance was captured of a trio of masters, Stephane Grappelli on violin, Joe Pass on Guitar and Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass (also known by the abbreviation NHOP).

Piano Jazz celebrates the centennial of the grandfather of the jazz violin: Stephane Grappelli. Born in Paris in 1908, Grappelli grew up very poor — his mother died when he was 4 and he spent time in ...