# Marc Fosset > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marc_Fosset > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marc_Fosset.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Fosset > Source revision: 1319932865 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Stephane_Grappelli). ==Life and career== Marc Fosset was born in [Paris](/source/Paris). He learned to play guitar left-handed after seeing [Yves Montand](/source/Yves_Montand) and [Didi Duprat](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Didi_Duprat) perform, and was also influenced by [Django Reinhardt](/source/Django_Reinhardt)'s style. With [Michel De Villers](/source/Michel_De_Villers), Fosset began accompanying jazz and blues musicians in the Trois Mailletz club in Paris. He joined the rock band [Magma](/source/Magma_(band)),{{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 }} played with [René Urtreger](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Urtreger) and [Claude Guilhot](/source/Claude_Guilhot), and in 1976 he founded a trio with [Franco Manzecchi](/source/Franco_Manzecchi) and [Patrice Galas](/source/Patrice_Galas). In 1977 he formed a duo with [Patrice Caratini](/source/Patrice_Caratini). In the 1980s and 1990s, he recorded and toured with [Stephane Grappelli](/source/Stephane_Grappelli).{{cite web |url=http://www.guitarejazz.com/guitaristes/marc-fosset.htm|title=Marc Fosset|accessdate=12 February 2012}} Fosset often performed in a duo with [Jean-Michel Cazorla](/source/Jean-Michel_Cazorla) and as a trio with [Laurent](/source/Laurent_Briand) and [Philippe Briand](/source/Philippe_Briand_(musician)).{{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}} Fosset retired in 2010, because of [Parkinson's disease](/source/Parkinson's_disease). He died on 31 October 2020, aged 71.{{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}} ==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](/source/America_Records_(France))) * 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](/source/Altrisuoni)) ===As sideman=== '''With [Stéphane Grappelli](/source/St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli)''' * 1973 ''Just One of Those Things'' * 1983 ''Stephanova'' * 1984 ''Bringing It Together'' with [Toots Thielemans](/source/Toots_Thielemans) * 1984 ''Looking at You'' with Stephane Grappelli * 1985 ''For All Seasons'' with [Yehudi Menuhin](/source/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](/source/Yo-Yo_Ma) * 1991 ''Stephane Grappelli in Tokyo'' * 1992 ''[Live 1992](/source/Live_1992_(St%C3%A9phane_Grappelli_album))'' * 1996 ''Stephane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner'' * 1999 ''Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival'' '''With others''' * 1977 ''[Inédits](/source/In%C3%A9dits)'', [Magma](/source/Magma_(band)) * 1982/86 "Valse Blues" with Marcel Azzola et Patrice Caratini . * 1988 ''Né Quelque Part'', [Maxime le Forestier](/source/Maxime_le_Forestier) * 1993 ''[Heroes](/source/Heroes_(Mark_O'Connor_album))'', [Mark O'Connor](/source/Mark_O'Connor) * 2002 ''Jazzola'', [Marcel Azzola](/source/Marcel_Azzola) * 2003 ''Tonino Baliardo'', [Tonino Baliardo](/source/Tonino_Baliardo) * 2007 ''Recidive No. 2'', [René Urtreger](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Urtreger) * 2008 ''Florin Niculescu Plays Stephane Grappelli'', [Florin Niculescu](/source/Florin_Niculescu) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Discogs artist|Marc Fosset}} {{Authority control}} {{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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marc Fosset](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Fosset) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Fosset?action=history)). 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