Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Stephane Grappelli In New Orleans (2001) Rating: Starring: Patrice Caratini, Marc Fosset, Stephane Grapelli, Martin Taylor Director: Category: Documentary, Music Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: [None] Length: 59 mins     One of the true legends of jazz, Stephane Grappelli maintained his youthful exuberance over more than half a century of performing.Watch this performance captured in an intimate New Orleans French Quarter club, and see his talent and enthusiasm shine as he and three young European musicians, Martin Taylor, guitar, Patrice Caratini, bass, and Marc Fosset, guitar gracefully romp through a wealth of jazz standards. Jazz critic Leonard Feather called him "among the handful of genuine masters of jazz violin."Grappelli was self-taught on violin.He grew up in turn-of-the-century Paris; at 15 he was playing piano for silent films."Then I discovered jazz and my vocation and kissed Amadeus goodbye," he said.In the thirties Grappelli was a charter member of the famed Quintet of the Hot Club of France with guitarist Django Reinhardt, whom he had met in the Croix du Sud Montparnasse nightclub in early 1934.Decades later he was still touring the world, performing with musicians of every age with a precise, elegant, and forceful style that spanned generations."I thank God for sending jazz to this earth," he said. Stephane Grappelli died in 1997 at the age of 89; Stephane Grappelli in New Orleans offers a front row seat for watching - and hearing - a master at work.