Like the grapes transplanted from the French countryside to California's Wine Country, the Gypsy swing of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli has thrived in the Bay Area's ...

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 ...

At age 78–and, you should pardon the expression, looking fit as a fiddle –Stephane Grappelli is the sole survivor of the first and greatest generation of jazz violinists. Joe Venuti, Eddie South and ...

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 ...

The popular image of Stephane Grappelli is of a cherubic Frenchman, violin tucked under his chin, playing swinging jazz of the I Got Rhythm era and improvising with stylish verve. It’s not an image ...

Few modern jazz musicians had the chance to see the old masters play live. John Coltrane passed away before Branford Marsalis graduated kindergarten. Billie Holiday succumbed to cirrhosis before ...

His hair is white and his step is slow, but 80-year-old violinist Stephane Grappelli played with the exuberance of a young man Friday night at George`s on West Kinzie Street. Grappelli, who is to the ...

Despite the example of Wynton Marsalis over the past quartercentury, it’s still rare to find instrumentalists who are nearly as accomplished in classical music as they are in jazz. It’s even harder to ...

With all its string instruments, Gypsy jazz music is not your conventional, everyday musical genre. But the band Rhythm Future Quartet is big on that style. “Gypsy jazz was pioneered by Django ...

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