Marc Fosset

Jazz guitarist Marc Fosset was born on May 17, 1949 in Paris, France. Inspired by seeing left-handed musician Didi Duprat and vocalist Yves Montand, Fosset learned to play guitar left-handed. His style was also influenced by Django Reinhardt, one of Duprat’s main influences as well. He made his stage debut at the Trois Mailletz club in Paris alongside saxophonist Michel de Villers. Fosset developed his own unique style and accompanied both French and American musicians including Michel Roques, Roger Guérin, Memphis Slim, Chris Woods, Bill Coleman and Ted Curson. In the 1970s, he spent a short time as guitarist for progressive rock band Magma and performed with René Urtreger and Claude Guilhot. Fosset began collaborating with bassist Patrice Caratini and initially recorded two duo albums - Le Chauve et le Gaucher (1978) and Boite à Musique (1979) – as well as Organ, a 1978 album that the duo recorded with drummer Franco Manzecchi. In 1980, Fosset released the album La Récré. He continued to record with Caratini up through 1986’s Fleur de Banlieue (Vol. 2). He also recorded a series of albums with Stéphane Grappelli between 1973 and 1999. Fosset would also go on to record with Mark O’Connor, René Urtreger, Marcel Azzola, and many others. Because of Parkinson’s disease, Fosset retired in 2010. He died at the age of 71 on October 31, 2020.

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