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Location: NJ | stopped at a thrift store today and bought stephan grapelli live at carnegie hall. He was the violinist with Django in France. Great CD for a buck LOL.
makes me really appreciate my stereo stytem. even without the DAC converter i have been looking at.
BTW if anyone is looking for a crossover the old crown vfx2a does a great job!!! and they are relatively cheap compared to audiophile components.
damn the cd stopped I am going to listen to it again and then put on dave brubeck's christmas cd and then john fahey and then ......
still dreaming that santa will deliver that DAC LOL |
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Location: big island | stephan grappelli...one o' my heroes. i own many of his recordings and the DVD of his new orleans performance.. i especially enjoy his takes on jerome kern's music. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Saw him twice. Once in a 400 seater. Shear joy. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Shear joy. good name for a barbershop/hair salon. |
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Location: big island | "Bibere humanum est, ergo bibamus."
good quotation to hang in a bar. |
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Location: NJ | just pushed play for the 3rd time
listening while I am fighting with an e bay idiot to pay for a 25 dollar item. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You'll love the album Stéphane Grappelli & Jean-Luc Ponty did together. |
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Location: NJ | somewhere in my truck is an old cassette of stephane grappelli and david gisman. great stuff also |
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Location: Chicago | Jusst saw with Grisman and Garcia. True acoustic soul and a good Christmas gift for the right person (yourself?) "Grateful Dawg" |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, Grateful Dawg is really good. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | If you like violins then check out Thomas Kagermann's Violunar. |
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| al - you've met Martin Taylor so you've almost met Stephan. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by schroeder:
al - you've met Martin Taylor so you've almost met Stephan. very true
Martin is a very nice man. A pleasure to interview. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | I picked up the Stephan Grapelli and David Grissman album back around 1987. I couldn't believe how well Grapelli played, well into his 80's. I wound up a huge fan. For those of you who never heard him play his swing jazz violin, give him a listen. You won't believe how great he is. |
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Location: big island | stephane's music has always lifted my spirits. it is also joy to watch him play. martin taylor is a phenomenal jazz guitarist too. |
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Location: big island | a great recent clip from martin taylor:
down at cocomo\'s |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I saw a documentary the other night on Django guitar clubs in Tokyo. There are several, it seems. One Japanese violinist was asked about the style she was striving for. Her reply was, "Sexy, like Stephane Grapelli." |
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