Marc Fosset (17 May 1949 – 31 October 2020) was a French jazz guitarist.

Life and career

Marc Fosset was born in

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. He learned to play guitar left-handed after seeing

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and

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perform, and was also influenced by

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'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

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, played with

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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 toured with

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. Fosset often performed in a duo with Jean-Michel Cazorla and as a trio with Laurent and

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. Fosset retired in 2010, because of

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. He died on 31 October 2020, aged 71.

Discography

* 1978 ''Le Chauve Et Le Gaucher'' with Patrice Caratini (Open) * 1978 ''Organ'' with Patrice Galas, Franco Manzecchi (Open) * 1979 ''Boite a Musique'' with Patrice Caratini (Open) * 1979 ''Petit Voyage'' with Patrice Caratini, Claude Guilhot, Charles Saudrais (Open) * 1980 ''La Récré'' ( America) * 1980 ''Live'' with Patrice Galas, Umberto Pagnini (String) * 1981 ''Hershey Bar'' with Michel de Villers (Ahead) * 1982 ''3 Temps Pour Bien Faire'' with Patrice Caratini, Marcel Azzola * 1982 ''Troisième Acte'' with Patrice Caratini * 1986 ''Fleur De Banlieue (Vol. 2)'' Patrice Caratini, Marcel Azzola * 1997 ''First Set'' (Izamusic) * 2011 ''Au Jazzland'' ( Altrisuoni)

As sideman

With

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* 1973 ''Just One of Those Things'' * 1983 ''Stephanova'' * 1984 ''Bringing It Together'' with

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* 1984 ''Looking at You'' * 1985 ''For All Seasons'' with

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* 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

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* 1991 ''Stephane Grappelli in Tokyo'' * 1992 '' Live 1992'' * 1996 ''Stephane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner'' * 1999 ''Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival'' With others * 1977 '' Inédits'',

* 1982/86 "Valse Blues" with Marcel Azzola et Patrice Caratini . * 1988 ''Né Quelque Part'',

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* 1993 ''

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'',

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* 2002 ''Jazzola'', Marcel Azzola * 2003 ''Tonino Baliardo'',

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* 2007 ''Recidive No. 2'',

* 2008 ''Florin Niculescu Plays Stephane Grappelli'', Florin Niculescu

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fosset, Marc 1949 births 2020 deaths French jazz guitarists French male guitarists Fingerstyle guitarists Musicians from Paris French male jazz musicians