Name Fapy Lafertin | Role Guitarist · hotclub.nl | |
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Albums Swing Guitars, Hungaria, Star Eyes, Fleur de Lavende Similar People Paulus Schafer, Koen De Cauter, Tim Kliphuis, Tchavolo Schmitt, Stochelo Rosenberg | ||
Fapy lafertin after you ve gone live hot club de gand dec 2008
Fapy Lafertin (born Kortrijk, Belgium, 1950) is a jazz guitarist of Romani ethnicity, one of the foremost contemporary exponents of the Belgian-Dutch style of Gypsy jazz.
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- Fapy lafertin after you ve gone live hot club de gand dec 2008
- Fapy lafertin je suis seul ce soir live hot club de gand dec 2008
- Discography
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Lafertin was born in the Romani community of Manouches, and took up guitar at the age of five. After performing in a family band with his father on violin and his brother on second guitar, he joined the Piotto Limberger orchestra. He also toured with his uncle, Eddie Ferret.
In the 1970s and '80s he played with the band WASO, with Albert Vivi Limberger on drums and Michel Verstraeten on double bass. In 1985 he began a quartet which has featured Rudi Brink, Tim Kliphuis, and Joop Hendricks. He based the quartet on the Quintette du Hot Club de France. He began a solo career and toured throughout Europe and the UK. He has played with American jazz musicians, such as Charlie Byrd, Al Casey, Scott Hamilton, Milt Hinton, and Benny Waters. Briefly he performed with Stéphane Grappelli.
Lafertin has used the 12-string guitarra, combining Portuguese fado and Brazilian samba with the music of Reinhardt, Duke Ellington, and the Great American Songbook in his repertoire.