Grappelli's Secrets: 3 Licks That Define His Legendary Sound 

Always wish I had the chance!

Ha I’m so sad I never got to meet him!

Really glad to hear it.they keep me motivated too!!

Thanks so much for the kind words and the constructive feedback! Funnily enough I have a new camera lense on the way that will help rectify this in the future hopefully.

Excellent! I like all your videos Matt. This one in particular I'll be studying, as I believe Grappelli's groove is the epitome of violin playing. And I'll second CBMalloch's comment about not being able to see your bow movement.

Thank you pal, really appreciate the feedback!

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the kind words!

I’m glad!

Don’t quite agree with you there. Grappelli was influenced by all of the American jazz he listened to in the 1930s. He did play with Django who happened to be of Manouche descent but really they just played their idea of the jazz of the time. Labels like Jazz Manouche and Gypsy Jazz appeared around the 1970s. The stuff I look at in this video is based around early Grappelli which I think was influenced loads by Louis.

bro what?

obviously I'm not disparaging him, as I mentioned before he developed a style, manouche or gypsy jazz, but he also lived through the era of Parker, Coltrane etc etc and he never played any bebop or the rest of the jazz styles, always his gypsy and mostly keys similar to the violin, E, A, D and G major and some in C, which is very understandable due to the difficulty…. Anyway, in any case I recognize his value in his time, but music evolves and I think that even if it is with a violin, to say that he is a jazz player you have to go through what the styles of jazz really are. 👍🏾🎼🎻

@@igmaralderetejazzviolin2016louis armstrong also never played bebop, or fusion, or hard bop, or free jazz. And very few bebop players i’ve met play trad jazz. Your definition of “jazz musician” is very unusual I’ve never heard anybody claim this before. It’s really as simple as if you play jazz you’re a jazz musician. No need to overthink it.

As unusual as it may seem to you, I think so, just as any classical music performer must know all the styles, baroque, classical, romantic or contemporary to be classified as such, because to classify someone as a jazz violinist, they must knowing how to play all the styles, another thing quite different is to become a “specialist” in a specific style, or due to ease or ability.