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Quintette du Hot Club de France

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The Quintette du Hot Club de France, often abbreviated to "QdHCdF" or just "QHCF", (“The Quintet of the Hot Club of France”) was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli, and active in one form or another until 1948. [1]

31 relations: Adelaide Hall, Bal-musette, Baro Ferret, Benny Carter, Biréli Lagrène, Charles Delaunay, Coleman Hawkins, Continental jazz, Diz Disley, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Fapy Lafertin, Gypsy jazz, Hot Club de France, Hubert Rostaing, Hugues Panassié, Jazz, Jean Sablon, Joseph Reinhardt, Larry Adler, Louis Vola, Lousson Reinhardt, Matelo Ferret, Nuages, Paris, Percussion instrument, Raphaël Faÿs, Rex Stewart, Rhythm section, Stéphane Grappelli, Swing music.

Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American–born UK–based jazz singer and entertainer.

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Bal-musette

Bal-musette is a style of French music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s.

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Baro Ferret

Pierre Joseph "Baro" Ferret (1908–1976) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Biréli Lagrène

Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966) is a French jazz guitarist.

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Charles Delaunay

Charles Delaunay (18 January 1911 – 16 February 1988) was a French author, jazz expert, co-founder and long-term leader of the Hot Club de France.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Continental jazz

Continental jazz was a genre of music that included early jazz dance bands of Europe in the swing medium, to the exclusion of Great Britain.

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Diz Disley

William Charles "Diz" Disley (27 May 1931 – 22 March 2010) was an Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist, entertainer, and graphic designer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

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Fapy Lafertin

Fapy Lafertin (born Kortrijk, Belgium, 1950) is a jazz guitarist of Romani ethnicity, one of the foremost contemporary exponents of the Belgian-Dutch style of Gypsy jazz.

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Gypsy jazz

Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music generally accepted to have been started by the gypsy guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in and around Paris in the 1930s.

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Hot Club de France

The Hot Club de France is a French organization of jazz fans dedicated to the promotion of "traditional" jazz, swing, and blues.

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Hubert Rostaing

Hubert Rostaing (17 September 1918 – 10 June 1990) was a jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist.

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Hugues Panassié

Hugues Panassié (27 February 1912, Paris – 8 December 1974, Montauban) was an influential French critic, record producer, and impresario of traditional jazz.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean Sablon

Jean Sablon (25 March 1906 - 24 February 1994) was a French singer and actor.

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Joseph Reinhardt

Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt (1912-1982) was the younger brother of the famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and played rhythm guitar on most of Django's pre-war recordings, especially those with the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France between 1934 and 1939.

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Larry Adler

Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player.

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Louis Vola

Louis Vola (La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, 6 July 1902 – 15 August 1990, Paris), was a French double-bassist known for his work with the Quintette du Hot Club de France.

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Lousson Reinhardt

Henri Baumgartner (1929–1992), also known as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French gypsy jazz guitarist and the first son of Django Reinhardt, by his first wife, Florine "Bella" Mayer.

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Matelo Ferret

Jean Pierre "Matelo" Ferret (1918–1989) (also spelled Matelot, Matlo and Matlow, surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer.

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Nuages

"Nuages" is one of the best-known compositions by Django Reinhardt.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Raphaël Faÿs

Raphaël Faÿs is a French jazz, gypsy jazz and classical guitarist and composer born in Paris on 10 December 1959.

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Rex Stewart

Rex William Stewart (February 22, 1907 – September 7, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist best remembered for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra.

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Rhythm section

A rhythm section (also called a backup band) is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintette_du_Hot_Club_de_France

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