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Lesson time: (0min 56sec)
Your assignment: gather Stéphane Grappelli recordings from across his career, learn his hot-club riffs and practise them over the backing to Swing Parisienne.
This lesson is part of the course Exploring Jazz Violin part 1
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Lesson transcript:
Your assignment for this lesson, as it was for Giovannutti, is as follows:
Once you've gathered and practiced these tunes, you'll be able to play them with other musicians!
Chris Haigh has been a professional fiddle player for 25 years, with experience covering many different genres. He has played on over 75 albums, working with artists including Alison Moyet, Bob Geldof, All About Eve, Michael Ball, David Soul, Oumou Sangare, The Quireboys, Riverdance, Morcheeba, James Galway and Steps. He has played swing jazz with The Kimbara Brothers, Diz Disley, Le Jazz, The Hot Club of London, and the Quecumbar Allstars, and leads a 7-piece Soviet swing band, The Kremlinaires. Chris gives lessons and workshops on jazz violin technique and has taught jazz violin at Middlesex, Brunel and Newcastle universities and Truro College. His writing credits include nine fiddle books, among them The Fiddle Handbook. He also runs Fiddling Around (fiddlingaround.co.uk), probably the most comprehensive and widely visited source of fiddle information on the web. read more
