Marc Fosset

Marc Fosset (17 May 1949 – 31 October 2020) was a French jazz guitarist. In the 1980s and 1990s, he recorded and toured with Stephane Grappelli.

Life and career

Marc Fosset was born in Paris. He learned to play guitar left-handed after seeing Yves Montand and Didi Duprat perform, and was also influenced by Django Reinhardt's style. With Michel De Villers, Fosset began accompanying jazz and blues musicians in the Trois Mailletz club in Paris. He joined the rock band Magma, played with René Urtreger and Claude Guilhot, and in 1976 he founded a trio with Franco Manzecchi and Patrice Galas. In 1977 he formed a duo with Patrice Caratini. In the 1980s and 1990s, he recorded and toured with Stephane Grappelli. Fosset often performed in a duo with Jean-Michel Cazorla and as a trio with Laurent and Philippe Briand.

Fosset retired in 2010, because of Parkinson's disease. He died on 31 October 2020, aged 71.

Discography

As sideman

With Stéphane Grappelli

  • 1973 Just One of Those Things
  • 1983 Stephanova
  • 1984 Bringing It Together with Toots Thielemans
  • 1984 Looking at You with Stephane Grappelli
  • 1985 For All Seasons with Yehudi Menuhin)
  • 1987 Grappelli Plays Jerome Kern
  • 1988 Menuhin & Grappelli Play "Jealousy" and Other Great Standards with Yehudi Menuhin
  • 1988 Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin Kern Porter & Rodgers & Hart with Yehudi Menuhin
  • 1988 Olympia 88
  • 1989 Anything Goes with Yo-Yo Ma
  • 1991 Stephane Grappelli in Tokyo
  • 1992 Live 1992
  • 1996 Stephane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner
  • 1999 Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival

With others

References

  1. 1 2 3 Clergeat, Andre (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries. p. 836. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
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  3. ↑ "Le trio Silversound rencontre Marc Fosset". Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Décès du guitariste Marc Fosset". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 2 November 2020.