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Stéphane 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...