{{Short description|French jazz guitarist (1949–2020)}} '''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,<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book |last1=Clergeat |first1=Andre |editor1-last=Kernfeld |editor1-first=Barry |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz |date=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |page=836 |volume=1 |edition=2nd }}</ref> 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.<ref name="New Grove" /> In the 1980s and 1990s, he recorded and toured with Stephane Grappelli.<ref name="New Grove" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guitarejazz.com/guitaristes/marc-fosset.htm|title=Marc Fosset|accessdate=12 February 2012}}</ref> Fosset often performed in a duo with Jean-Michel Cazorla and as a trio with Laurent and Philippe Briand.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.albumtrad.com/en/le-trio-silversound-rencontre-marc-fosset/00270-ebony-jane.xhtml |title=Le trio Silversound rencontre Marc Fosset |accessdate=12 February 2012}}</ref>
Fosset retired in 2010, because of Parkinson's disease. He died on 31 October 2020, aged 71.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/deces-du-guitariste-marc-fosset-89256 |title=Décès du guitariste Marc Fosset|website=France Musique|access-date=2 November 2020|language=fr}}</ref>
==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 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''' * 1977 ''Inédits'', Magma * 1982/86 "Valse Blues" with Marcel Azzola et Patrice Caratini . * 1988 ''Né Quelque Part'', Maxime le Forestier * 1993 ''Heroes'', Mark O'Connor * 2002 ''Jazzola'', Marcel Azzola * 2003 ''Tonino Baliardo'', Tonino Baliardo * 2007 ''Recidive No. 2'', René Urtreger * 2008 ''Florin Niculescu Plays Stephane Grappelli'', Florin Niculescu
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Discogs artist|Marc Fosset}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fosset, Marc}} Category:1949 births Category:2020 deaths Category:French jazz guitarists Category:French male guitarists Category:Fingerstyle guitarists Category:Guitarists from Paris Category:French male jazz musicians