Stéphane Grappelli

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Minor Swing 04:05 Tools
Nuages 04:29 Tools
Djangology 03:26 Tools
Alabamy Bound 02:50 Tools
Daphne 00:00 Tools
Django 04:56 Tools
Time After Time 00:00 Tools
Solitude 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Are You In The Mood? 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 03:09 Tools
Soft Winds 00:00 Tools
Tears 00:00 Tools
Le Tien 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Cheek To Cheek 03:08 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Anything Goes 00:00 Tools
Like Someone In Love 00:00 Tools
The Nearness of You 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Pent Up House 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
The Lady Is a Tramp 00:00 Tools
Sweet Chorus 00:00 Tools
It's All Right With Me 00:00 Tools
H.C.Q. Strut 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me 00:00 Tools
You'd Better Go Now 00:00 Tools
Them There Eyes 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
Love's Melody 00:00 Tools
Swing Guitars 00:00 Tools
Insensiblement 00:00 Tools
Shine 00:00 Tools
Just One Of Those Things 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 00:00 Tools
The Folks Who Live On The Hill 00:00 Tools
You Took Advantage of Me 00:00 Tools
Dans la vie 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
Moonlight In Vermont 00:00 Tools
Manoir De Mes Reves / Daphne 00:00 Tools
Tea For Two 00:00 Tools
Flamingo 00:00 Tools
Queenie 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans 00:00 Tools
S-H-I-N-E 00:00 Tools
She's Funny That Way 00:00 Tools
I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Souvenir De Villingen 00:00 Tools
Hot Lips 00:00 Tools
How About You 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
Chicago 00:00 Tools
'S Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Dinah 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me / I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be Happy 00:00 Tools
My Heart Stood Still 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love 00:00 Tools
Tangerine 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
I'm Coming Virginia 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopie 00:00 Tools
Marie 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man River 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues 00:00 Tools
Blues For Django And Stephane 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You 00:00 Tools
Oriental Shuffle 00:00 Tools
You Are The Sunshine of My Life 00:00 Tools
Night and Day 00:00 Tools
Manoir De Mes Reves 00:00 Tools
It Might As Well Be Spring 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
Misty 00:00 Tools
La Chanson Des Rues 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
Tiger Rag 00:00 Tools
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
Miss Otis Regrets 00:00 Tools
Takin' a Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
La Mer - Beyond The Sea 00:00 Tools
I've Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean A Thing 00:00 Tools
Joy 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere 00:00 Tools
Let's Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Lover Come Back To Me 00:00 Tools
It's You or No One 00:00 Tools
Chasing Shadows 00:00 Tools
Swing 42 00:00 Tools
Et Maintenant 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
Pick Yourself Up 00:00 Tools
(I Like New York In June) How About You 00:00 Tools
Easy To Love 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know 00:00 Tools
Afternoon In Paris 00:00 Tools
I Won't Dance 00:00 Tools
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 00:00 Tools
You Better Go Now 00:00 Tools
I Saw Stars 00:00 Tools
Love Song 00:00 Tools
Fine and Dandy 00:00 Tools
Avalon 00:00 Tools
I Hear Music 00:00 Tools
My Heart Belongs To Daddy 00:00 Tools
In The Still Of The Night 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
It Had To Be You 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
You're The Top 00:00 Tools
I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
Stephane's Tune 00:00 Tools
Milou 00:00 Tools
My One And Only Love 00:00 Tools
Daphné 00:00 Tools
All of Me 00:00 Tools
You've Got A Thing 00:00 Tools
Fiddle Blues 00:00 Tools
Some Of These Days 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Gallerie St. Hubert 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Belleville 00:00 Tools
Birth Of The Blues 00:00 Tools
Swing from Paris 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Adelaide Eve 00:00 Tools
Stephen's Blues 00:00 Tools
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Parisian Thoroughfare 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 00:00 Tools
Sugar 00:00 Tools
Noel Brings The Swing 00:00 Tools
Lover, Come Back to Me 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blackbird 00:00 Tools
Pent-Up House 00:00 Tools
Liza 00:00 Tools
I Found A New Baby 00:00 Tools
Over the Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Dungeon 00:00 Tools
Danny Boy 00:00 Tools
Limehouse Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
Tournesol 00:00 Tools
Sing Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Nature Boy 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Be The Same 00:00 Tools
Amanda 00:00 Tools
Ultrafox 00:00 Tools
Long Ago And Far Away 00:00 Tools
Isn't She Lovely 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 00:00 Tools
A Fine Romance 00:00 Tools
Slow En Ré Majeur (I'll Be Around) 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You 00:00 Tools
Halleluyah 00:00 Tools
St. Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Valse Du Passe 00:00 Tools
Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 00:00 Tools
You're the Cream in My Coffee 00:00 Tools
Clouds 00:00 Tools
Fascinatin' Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Just A Gigolo 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave Me 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love 00:00 Tools
Ballade 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves 00:00 Tools
I've Got The World On A String 00:00 Tools
Baby 00:00 Tools
Have you Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
You were only passing by 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Coltrane 00:00 Tools
Conversation 00:00 Tools
Are You in the Mood 00:00 Tools
Swing 39 00:00 Tools
Two Cute 00:00 Tools
Rain Check 00:00 Tools
Stompin' At Decca 00:00 Tools
Improvisation On Tchaikowsky's " Pathetique " 00:00 Tools
Jamie 00:00 Tools
China Boy 00:00 Tools
Time on My Hands 00:00 Tools
But Not For Me 00:00 Tools
Memories 00:00 Tools
Smoke Rings 00:00 Tools
Blue Drag 00:00 Tools
Dear Ben 00:00 Tools
Believe It, Beloved 00:00 Tools
La Chanson De Rue 00:00 Tools
Jive Bomber 00:00 Tools
All God's Children Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
What A Difference A Day Made 00:00 Tools
Illusion 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me 00:00 Tools
Dany 00:00 Tools
Walking In A Dream 00:00 Tools
Exactly Like You 00:00 Tools
Shine (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Mack the Knife 00:00 Tools
Gary 00:00 Tools
Tribute to Mani 00:00 Tools
Hit the Road Jack 00:00 Tools
Paramount Stomp 00:00 Tools
Les Valseuses 00:00 Tools
Three Little Words 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started (live) 00:00 Tools
French Resolution 00:00 Tools
Manhattan 00:00 Tools
Oh! Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Flower For Kenny 00:00 Tools
Mystery Pacific 00:00 Tools
Tabou 00:00 Tools
It Was So Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Moonglow 00:00 Tools
Denise 00:00 Tools
Rolls 00:00 Tools
The Continental 00:00 Tools
Didn't We 00:00 Tools
Swing '42 (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
I Never Knew 00:00 Tools
My Sweet 00:00 Tools
Souvenirs 00:00 Tools
Pick Yourself Up (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
I Remember Django 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) 00:00 Tools
Anna 00:00 Tools
Swanee River 00:00 Tools
Zelda 00:00 Tools
Don't Worry 'Bout Me 00:00 Tools
Ol' Man River (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Jitterbug Waltz 00:00 Tools
Blues De La Pluie 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
Little Peace In C For U 00:00 Tools
So Long 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady Be Good (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
The Sheik of Araby 00:00 Tools
Nice Work If You Can Get It 00:00 Tools
Fly-Tox 00:00 Tools
Hungaria 00:00 Tools
Light 00:00 Tools
Old Man River 00:00 Tools
Black and White 00:00 Tools
Medley: 'S Wonderful / Someone To Watch Over Me / I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 00:00 Tools
Alexander's Ragtime Band 00:00 Tools
Andree 00:00 Tools
Paganini Caprice 5 00:00 Tools
Nuages / Daphne (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Viens au creux de Mon epaule 00:00 Tools
My Blue Heaven 00:00 Tools
I've Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
L'internationale 00:00 Tools
Riviere 00:00 Tools
Them Their Eyes 00:00 Tools
Rose Room 00:00 Tools
Sweet Chorus Live In Paris 1992 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Chanson Des Rues (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Georgia on my mind 00:00 Tools
How About You? 00:00 Tools
Mean To Me 00:00 Tools
Nagasaki 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two (Live) 00:00 Tools
Chicago (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Stephane's Blues 00:00 Tools
Moonlight Walks 00:00 Tools
H. C. Q. Strut 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
If I Were a Bell 00:00 Tools
Out Of Nowhere (from Deconstructing Harry) 00:00 Tools
Double Scotch 00:00 Tools
The Girl from Ipanema 00:00 Tools
Slow En Re Majeur I'll Be Around 00:00 Tools
You Make Me Feel So Young 00:00 Tools
Lambeth Walk 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' That Man 00:00 Tools
(I Like New York in June) How About You ? 00:00 Tools
Pentup House 00:00 Tools
Ton Doux Sourire 00:00 Tools
Crazy Blues 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Talk Of The Town 00:00 Tools
Camelia 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell 00:00 Tools
Aime-Moi 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side of the Street 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves (Live) 00:00 Tools
St Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Autumn In New York 00:00 Tools
I Hear The Music 00:00 Tools
Margie 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me / I Got Rhythm (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing the Rest of your Life 00:00 Tools
Lookin' At You 00:00 Tools
Chattanogga Choo Choo (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Oh Lady Be Good 00:00 Tools
Blue Ribbon Rag 00:00 Tools
My Serenade 00:00 Tools
I Would Do Anything for You 00:00 Tools
I Thought About You 00:00 Tools
In The Mood 00:00 Tools
What Am I Here For? 00:00 Tools
Nuages, Daphne 00:00 Tools
Viper's Dream 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Red-O-Rey 00:00 Tools
Django's Castle 00:00 Tools
Tournesol (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad and that ain't good 00:00 Tools
More Than You Know (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Folks On The Hill 00:00 Tools
Angel's Camp 00:00 Tools
Peanut Vendor 00:00 Tools
Brick Top 00:00 Tools
Just You, Just Me 00:00 Tools
Blue River 00:00 Tools
Let's Fall In Love - Live 00:00 Tools
Medley: I'm Thru With Love / I'll Never Be The Same / I Can't Give You Anything But Love 00:00 Tools
Nocturne - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Amanda (Live) 00:00 Tools
Opportunity 00:00 Tools
Galerie Des Princes 00:00 Tools
My Melancholy Baby 00:00 Tools
Confessin' 00:00 Tools
Poursuite 00:00 Tools
Vous, Qui Passez Sans Me Voir 00:00 Tools
Don't get around much anymore 00:00 Tools
Louise 00:00 Tools
Just the Two of Us 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Jeanne 00:00 Tools
S'Posin' 00:00 Tools
Lover Man - Oh, Where Can You Be 00:00 Tools
Mr. P.C. 00:00 Tools
Nuages / Daphne 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
What Are You Doing For The Rest Of Your Life 00:00 Tools
Copa Cola 00:00 Tools
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 00:00 Tools
I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 00:00 Tools
Running Wild 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah 00:00 Tools
Marno 00:00 Tools
You're Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
Sweet Chorus (Live In Paris 1992) 00:00 Tools
Little Star 00:00 Tools
More 00:00 Tools
Sunny Skies 00:00 Tools
Makin Whoopee 00:00 Tools
Bill Street Blues 00:00 Tools
I Found a New Baby (Live) 00:00 Tools
Wave 00:00 Tools
Nuage 00:00 Tools
What Am I Here For 00:00 Tools
I’ve Found a New Baby 00:00 Tools
That Tune 00:00 Tools
Camille 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
Paganini Caprice 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 00:00 Tools
Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) 00:00 Tools
Perugia 00:00 Tools
Time After Time - live 00:00 Tools
Billets Doux 00:00 Tools
Fiddle's Blues 00:00 Tools
Out of Nowhere (Live) 00:00 Tools
In a Sentimental Mood 00:00 Tools
Barniana 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love - Alternate 00:00 Tools
Smoke Rings And Wine 00:00 Tools
Sysmo 00:00 Tools
Blues For Django And Stéphane 00:00 Tools
After You’ve Gone (1937 Version) 00:00 Tools
The Talk Of The Town 00:00 Tools
Bluebirds In The Moonlight 00:00 Tools
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Live 00:00 Tools
Swingin' With DJango 00:00 Tools
Sweet Chorus (Live) 00:00 Tools
Georges 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad 00:00 Tools
Miss Annabelle Lee 00:00 Tools
Rolls - Bof Les Valseuses 00:00 Tools
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue, Just You 00:00 Tools
Moon Glow 00:00 Tools
That Old Black Magic 00:00 Tools
No Points Today 00:00 Tools
My Foolish Heart 00:00 Tools
You Go To My Head (Live) 00:00 Tools
Stephanova 00:00 Tools
Bicyclette 00:00 Tools
Medley: Nuages, Daphne 00:00 Tools
Pic-nic 00:00 Tools
Norwegian Dance 00:00 Tools
It's Only Paper Moon (Live) 00:00 Tools
Moonlight In Vermont (Live) 00:00 Tools
'Deed I Do 00:00 Tools
Boléro de Django (Troublant Boléro) 00:00 Tools
I've Had My Moments 00:00 Tools
Are You In The Mood? - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Echoes of France 00:00 Tools
By All Means 00:00 Tools
Baubles, Bangles And Beads 00:00 Tools
Blues For Georges 00:00 Tools
Billet Doux 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
When I Look At You 00:00 Tools
Weep No More, My Lady 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me - Alternate 00:00 Tools
Nightwind 00:00 Tools
Oh! By Jingo 00:00 Tools
Menuet pour Menuhin 00:00 Tools
Chapeau Blues 00:00 Tools
Baubles, Bangles, and Beads 00:00 Tools
Looking at You 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Is to Miss New Orleans 00:00 Tools
No More Blues 00:00 Tools
Ebb Tide 00:00 Tools
Shangri-La 00:00 Tools
Tune Up 00:00 Tools
Deed I Do 00:00 Tools
Fulton Street Samba 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
The Folks Who Live On The Hill (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sue - Just You 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale - Live 00:00 Tools
Sonny Boy 00:00 Tools
Three O'Clock In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Waltz For Queenie 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Paper Moon - live 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous For Words 00:00 Tools
I Didn'T Know What Time 00:00 Tools
Restless Girl 00:00 Tools
Skip It 00:00 Tools
Appel Indirect 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Adèle 00:00 Tools
Et Maintenant (Live) 00:00 Tools
You Made Me Love Me 00:00 Tools
Tornerai (J'Attendrai) 00:00 Tools
TBWS 00:00 Tools
Appel Direct 00:00 Tools
Wendy 00:00 Tools
H C Q Strut 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
What is this thing called love ? 00:00 Tools
Flonville 00:00 Tools
Les Feuilles Mortes 00:00 Tools
Interprétation "swing" du premier mouvement du Concerto en Ré mineur de J. S. Bach 00:00 Tools
Emotion 00:00 Tools
I'Ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 00:00 Tools
Desert Sands 00:00 Tools
I Got Rythm 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 00:00 Tools
Clopin Clopant 00:00 Tools
California, Here I Come 00:00 Tools
Made For Isaac 00:00 Tools
Please Be Kind 00:00 Tools
DJango's Tiger 00:00 Tools
Yours Is My Heart Alone 00:00 Tools
Theme From The Summer Of '42 00:00 Tools
Passe 00:00 Tools
Parlez-Moi D'Amour 00:00 Tools
You Say You Care 00:00 Tools
Minor Swing - Live 00:00 Tools
Christmas Swing 00:00 Tools
Aint Misbehavin 00:00 Tools
Golden Green 00:00 Tools
I Want To Talk About You 00:00 Tools
Chansons des rues 00:00 Tools
Camélia 00:00 Tools
It's Wonderful 00:00 Tools
Improvisation sur le premier mouvement du Concerto en Ré mineur de J. S. Bach 00:00 Tools
Star Dust 00:00 Tools
Medley: Someone To Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Stardust (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Coal Black Mammy 00:00 Tools
Stephane Blues 00:00 Tools
Minor Blues 00:00 Tools
Manoir des Mes Rêves/Daphne 00:00 Tools
Paradise 00:00 Tools
La Mer 00:00 Tools
A Flower Is a Lovesome thing 00:00 Tools
Tendrement 00:00 Tools
Irma La Douce 00:00 Tools
Valse Du Passé 00:00 Tools
The Good Life 00:00 Tools
Tornerai 00:00 Tools
I Love New York in June 00:00 Tools
Rosetta 00:00 Tools
Armando's Rumba 00:00 Tools
Nuages - Daphne 00:00 Tools
There'll Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Jive At Five 00:00 Tools
Milou En Mai 00:00 Tools
Lady, be Good!: Oh, lady, be good! 00:00 Tools
Stéphane's Tune 00:00 Tools
Swing 00:00 Tools
Memories Of You 00:00 Tools
Ménilmontant 00:00 Tools
Jeepers Creepers 00:00 Tools
What a Difference a Day Makes 00:00 Tools
Errol 00:00 Tools
Billy 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You - live 00:00 Tools
It Had to Be You - 1938 00:00 Tools
Nuages/Daphne 00:00 Tools
Soft Wings 00:00 Tools
Someday Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
I Love You 00:00 Tools
Oh, Lady, Be Good 00:00 Tools
Revoir Paris 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Rhythm: Lady, be Good!: Oh, lady, be good! 00:00 Tools
On The Sunny Side/Street 00:00 Tools
Improvisation On Tchaikowsky's "Pathétique" Andante 00:00 Tools
Honeysucle Rose 00:00 Tools
Claire 00:00 Tools
Stardust (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Lonely Street 00:00 Tools
I Can't Recognise the Tune 00:00 Tools
Jealousy 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm - live 00:00 Tools
Pennies from Heaven (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Ojos Negros 00:00 Tools
Venupelli Blues 00:00 Tools
Charleston 00:00 Tools
The Birth Of The Blues 00:00 Tools
Manoir De Mes Rêves / Daphne 00:00 Tools
swing '42 00:00 Tools
I Remember April 00:00 Tools
There's a Small Hotel 00:00 Tools
Ballade (Theme principal) 00:00 Tools
Runnin' Wild 00:00 Tools
Les valseuses - After Bertrand Blier's Film 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves (Take 10) 00:00 Tools
A Gal In Calico 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You (Take 7) 00:00 Tools
Musette For A Magpie 00:00 Tools
Tournesol (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Embraceable You / Liza 00:00 Tools
Mon Legionnaire 00:00 Tools
Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
Greensleeves (Take 17) 00:00 Tools
Shine - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Mon Homme 00:00 Tools
Stomping At Decca 00:00 Tools
When Day Is Done 00:00 Tools
Improvisation On Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" 00:00 Tools
Rolls (version 2) 00:00 Tools
Chattanogga Choo Choo - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Chatanooga Choo Choo 00:00 Tools
Can't Help Lovin' That Man (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Coquette 00:00 Tools
How Hight The Moon 00:00 Tools
I Can't Recognize the Tune 00:00 Tools
Stompin at Decca 00:00 Tools
Ballade (Generique De Fin) - Bof Les Valseuses 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me - Live 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is the Ocean? 00:00 Tools
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale (Live) 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon (feat. Stuff Smith) 00:00 Tools
Folks Who Lives On The Hill 00:00 Tools
Adele 00:00 Tools
Stephanie Grappelli / The Nearness Of Your 00:00 Tools
Chicago - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Ol’ Man River 00:00 Tools
Brazil 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Live Version 00:00 Tools
After Youve Gone 00:00 Tools
J'attendrai 00:00 Tools
I'm Coming Home Virginia 00:00 Tools
Oui, Pour Vous Revoir 00:00 Tools
Improvisation on Prelude in E Minor 00:00 Tools
Djangology (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean - live 00:00 Tools
Chanson Pour Louis 00:00 Tools
Facinating Rhytm 00:00 Tools
Medley: 'S Wonderful / Someone 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
A Little Love, A Little Kiss 00:00 Tools
Nocturne (1938) 00:00 Tools
Believe It Beloved 00:00 Tools
I Get A Kick Out Of You - Live Version 00:00 Tools
You Took Advantage of Me (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Here, There And Everywhere 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
The Gypsy 00:00 Tools
Blues 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup 00:00 Tools
Makin' Whoopee (CH) 00:00 Tools
Walkin' My Baby Back Home 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Love 00:00 Tools
Pick Yourself Up - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Angel's Camp - Live 00:00 Tools
Skylark 00:00 Tools
I Can't Believe That... 00:00 Tools
Chicago - Live 00:00 Tools
Medley: I'm Thru With Love / I 00:00 Tools
Ma (He's Makin' Eyes At Me) 00:00 Tools
Hesitation 00:00 Tools
Facinatin' Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Billy - 2009 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
St.Louis blues 00:00 Tools
Time After Time - Live - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Eveline 00:00 Tools
Stockholm 00:00 Tools
Saint Louis Blues 00:00 Tools
Oui pour vous revoir (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Are You In The Mood? (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
You Are Driving Me Crazy 00:00 Tools
La Fille Du Bedouin 00:00 Tools
Years Apart 00:00 Tools
Tournesol (Take 8) 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Around (Slow En Re Majeur) 00:00 Tools
Gerba 00:00 Tools
Je veux ce soir - 1937 00:00 Tools
Tigger Rag 00:00 Tools
I wonder where my baby is tonight 00:00 Tools
Thou Swell (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
J'attendrai (Tornerai) 00:00 Tools
jeanne (version 2) 00:00 Tools
Les valseuses - rolls (version 2) 00:00 Tools
Chatanooga Choochoo 00:00 Tools
Mind The Handel'S Hot 00:00 Tools
Someone To Watch Over Me / I Got Rhythm - Live Version 00:00 Tools
April in Paris 00:00 Tools
It's Wonderful - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Time After Time / Two Sleepy People / Satin Doll 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? 00:00 Tools
Depart 00:00 Tools
As Time Goes By (feat. Joes Venuti) 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love - Live 00:00 Tools
Viens au creux de mon épaule 00:00 Tools
Nuage - Daphne 00:00 Tools
Loverman 00:00 Tools
Chanson Des Rues - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Improvisation on Prelude in E 00:00 Tools
Swing '39 00:00 Tools
Manoir de mes reves (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
This Can't Be Love (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
A Girl in Calico (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Folks Who Live On The Hill 00:00 Tools
Smoke 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Paper Moon - Live - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Les Valseuses - From Music for the Film of Bertrand Blier 00:00 Tools
Chicago (Live) 00:00 Tools
A Girl In Calico 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin 04:54 Tools
Improvisation 00:00 Tools
Stephane Grappelli & Jean Luc Ponty - The Girl From Ipanema 1 00:00 Tools
They Can't Take That Away From Me 00:00 Tools
Looking at You (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Музыка из фильма Б. Блие «Вальсирующие» (Les Valseuses) 00:00 Tools
Blues for Django and Stéphane - Live 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
Heavenly Music 00:00 Tools
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Oh! Johnny, Oh, Johnny, Oh! 00:00 Tools
Liebestraum No. 3 00:00 Tools
Body & Soul 2Nd 00:00 Tools
I Can't Recognize the Tune (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me (feat. Stuff Smith) 00:00 Tools
Body And Sout (2Nd Version) 00:00 Tools
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Sunny Side Of The Street 00:00 Tools
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Noël Brings That Swing - 1941 00:00 Tools
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All God´s Children Got Rhythm 00:00 Tools
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Je Veux Ce Soir 00:00 Tools
Lilly belle may june 00:00 Tools
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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. The latter, Italian, spelling is now used almost universally when referring to the violinist – even on reissues of his early work. Grappelli was born in France at Paris' Hôpital Lariboisière, and was christened with the name Stéfano. His Italian father, marquess Ernesto Grappelli, was born in Alatri, Lazio, and his French mother, Anna Emilie Hanoque, was from St-Omer. Ernesto was a scholar who taught Italian, sold translations, and wrote articles for local journals. Stéfano's mother died when he was four, leaving his father to care for him. Though he was living in France when World War I broke out, Ernesto was still an Italian citizen, and was drafted to fight in 1914. Ernesto had written an article about dancer Isadora Duncan during his time as a journalist, and turned to her when he needed someone to care for his son. Stéfano enrolled in Duncan's dance school at the age of six, and it was here that he learned to love French Impressionist music. With the war encroaching, Duncan was forced to flee the country and turn over her château to be used as a military hospital. Ernesto, having nowhere else to turn to, entrusted Stéfano to a Catholic orphanage. Grappelli is quoted “I look back at it as an abominable memory…The Place was supposed to be under the eye of the government, but the government looked elsewhere. We slept on the floor, and often were without food. There were many times when I had to fight for a crust of bread,” and claimed that he once tried eating flies as a means of easing his hunger. Stéfano stayed at the orphanage until his father returned from the war in 1918 and brought him to live in an apartment in Barbès. Ernesto was sickened by all things Italian after serving his time in the military, so, on July 28, 1919, he brought Stéfano to city hall, pulled two witnesses off the street, and had his son nationalized as a Frenchman. Stéfano was changed to Stéphane. Stéphane began playing the violin at age 12 after his father pawned his suit to buy him a three-quarter size violin. Ernesto sent his son to proper violin lessons, but Stéphane preferred to learn on his own. Grappelli said that "“My first lessons were in the streets, watching how other violinists played…The first violinist that I saw play was at the Barbès métro station, sheltered under the overhead metro tracks. When I asked how one should play, he exploded in laugher. I left, completely humiliated with my violin under my arm.” After learning independently for a brief period of time, Ernesto enrolled Stéphane at the Conservatoire de Paris on December 31, 1920 where he would learn music theory, ear-training, and solfeggio; Stéphane graduated in 1923 with a second-tier medal. Ernesto announced that he would be remarrying a woman by the name of Anna Fuchs and moving to Strasbourg during Stéphane's final year of schooling. Though he was invited to come with them, Stéphane chose to stay behind as he despised his father's new bride. At the age of 15, Grappelli began busking full-time to support himself financially. Grappelli's playing caught the attention of an elderly violinist who invited him to accompany silent films in the pit orchestra at the Théâtre Gaument. Stéphane played here for six hours every day over the course of a two-year period. During orchestra breaks, Grappelli would visit a local brasserie, Le Boudon, where he would listen to songs from an American proto-jukebox. It was here that Grappelli was first introduced to jazz music. Stéphane was playing in the orchestra at the Ambassador in 1928 when Paul Whiteman headlined with Joe Venuti. Jazz violinists were rare, and, though Venuti played mainly commercial jazz themes and seldom improvised, Grappelli was intrigued by his bowing when he played Louis Armstrong's "Dinah." This led Stéphane to begin developing his own jazz-influenced play style. Grappelli was living with a classically trained violinist named Michel Warlop, and, while Warlop admired Stéphane's jazzy playing, Grappelli envied Warlop's income. After experimenting with piano, he gave up violin, choosing simplicity, new sound, and paid gigs over familiarity. Stéphane began playing piano in a big band led by a musician who went by the name of Grégor. After a night of drinking in 1929, Grégor learned that Grappelli had originally played violin. Grégor borrowed a violin and had Stéphane improvise over "Dinah." Grégor was delighted by Grappelli's jazz playing, and insisted that he begin playing violin once more. In 1930, Grégor ran into financial trouble and was involved in a deadly automobile accident that forced him to flee to South America to avoid arrest. Grégor's band reunified as a true jazz ensemble under the leadership of pianist Alain Romans and saxophonist Ekyan. It was while playing with this band that Stéphane first met Django Reinhardt in 1931. Django told Grappelli that he was looking for a violinist such as himself to play with, and invited him to play at the caravan he was living in. Though the two played for hours that afternoon, their commitments to their respective bands prevented them from pursuing a career together. Three years later, in 1934, the two encountered each other at Claridge's, and it was then that their partnership truly began. Pierre Nourry, the secretary of the Hot Club de France invited Reinhardt and Grappelli to form the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Joseph Reinhardt and Roger Chaput joining Django on guitar, and Louis Vola on bass. In 1937, the American jazz singer Adelaide Hall opened a nightclub in Montmartre along with her husband Bert Hicks and called it 'La Grosse Pomme.' She entertained there nightly and hired the Quintette as one of the house bands at the club. Also in the neighborhood was the artistic salon of R-26, at which Grappelli and Reinhardt performed regularly. For the first three decades of his musical career, Grappelli was billed as Stéphane Grappelly. Grappelli's own explanation for the changed spelling was that he was tired of people mispronouncing his last name as "Grappell-eye". His early fame came playing with the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt, which disbanded in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. In 1940, a little-known jazz pianist by the name of George Shearing made his debut as a sideman in Grappelli's band. Shearing went on to enjoy a long career. In 1949, Reinhardt and Grappelli reunited for a brief tour of Italy, during which time they made a series of recordings with an Italian rhythm group. The two recorded roughly 50 tracks together during this time, and about half of them would be later compiled for the album Djangology. Grappelli appeared on hundreds of recordings including sessions with Duke Ellington, jazz pianists Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani and Claude Bolling, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, jazz violinist Stuff Smith, Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam, vibraphonist Gary Burton, pop singer Paul Simon, mandolin player David Grisman, classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, orchestral conductor André Previn, guitar player Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar player Joe Pass, cello player Yo Yo Ma, harmonica and jazz guitar player Toots Thielemans, jazz guitarist Henri Crolla, bassist Jon Burr and fiddler Mark O'Connor. He also collaborated extensively with the British guitarist and graphic designer Diz Disley, recording 13 record albums with him and his trio (which included Denny Wright in its early years), and with now renowned British guitarist Martin Taylor. His Parisian trio of many years included guitarist Marc Fosset and bassist Patrice Carratini. During the 1960s he played for cocktail hour at the Paris Hilton. Grappelli recorded a solo for the title track of Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. This was made almost inaudible in the mix, and so the violinist was not credited, according to Roger Waters, as it would be "a bit of an insult". A remastered version, with Grappelli's contribution fully audible, can be found on the 2011 Experience & Immersion versions of Wish You Were Here. Grappelli made a cameo appearance in the 1978 film King of the Gypsies, along with noted mandolinist David Grisman. Three years later they performed together in concert, which was recorded live and released to critical acclaim. In the 1980s he gave several concerts with the young British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. In 1997, Grappelli received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an inductee of the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. He died in Paris after undergoing a hernia operation. He is buried in the city's famous Père Lachaise Cemetery. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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