Stephane Grappelli (originally surname was spelled with a 'Y') would have earned himself a place in Jazz History books if only for his important role in the Quintette of the Hot Club of France, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...