Fapy Lafertin

Fapy Lafertin

Fapy Lafertin (born November 20, 1950 in Kortrijk ) is a Belgian jazz guitarist who is considered to be a very traditionally oriented gypsy jazz musician with a very good playing technique . In addition to the acoustic and electric guitar, he has also been playing the twelve-string Portuguese guitarra since 2001 .

Live and act

Lafertin, who comes from a Manouche family, first learned his trade in the family band. He began his career as a solo guitarist in the late 1960s with the Roma Orchester de Piottos , directed by Piotto Limberger. The ensemble's repertoire consisted of swing in the style of the Quintette du Hot Club de France and Roma folklore . In 1975 he left the band with clarinetist Koen De Cauter to found the Waso Quartet with guitarist Albert Vivi Limberger and bassist Michel Verstraeten . With this ensemble, which has become a leading ensemble on the gypsy jazz scene, especially in the Netherlands and Belgium, he recorded six albums. From 1985 on he directed his own hot club quintet Fapy Lafertin , which was not only linked to the French model from the 1930s in terms of its line-up but also in terms of its repertoire. In addition, Lafertin, who has been playing with Koen De Cauter again since 2004, also interprets music from the Balkans and Latin America.

Lafertin has worked with numerous international musicians such as Charlie Byrd , Scott Hamilton , Al Casey , Milt Hinton , Benny Waters and Stéphane Grappelli . He also cooperated with the English group Le Jazz around guitarist David Kelbie and has recorded two albums with his uncle, the singer and violinist Bamboula Ferret (1919–2008). The Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis has contributed to three of his more recent albums. With Paulus Schäfer he organized Sinti Jazz Guitar Camps.

Discographic notes

• Fleur de Lavende (Hot Club Records, 1990)
• Aurore (Studio 88, 1993)
• Swing Guitars (Le Jazz, 1995)
• Hungaria feat. Bob Wilber (Le Jazz, 1996)
• Star Eyes (String Jazz, 2000)
• Fleur d'Ennui ( Timeless Records , 2001)
• Fine and Dandy (Iris Music, 2002)
• Koen De Cauter, Fapy Lafertin & Group Django! A Tribute (WERF, 2010)
• Lollo Meier & Fapy Lafertin Plachterida (2012)

literature

• Michael Dregni Gipsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gipsy Swing Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008; ISBN 978-0-19-531192-1

Web links

• Entry at Djangostation (French)
• Fapy Lafertin at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fapy Lafertin Biography. In: sintimusic.nl. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (en-nl). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Wilhelm Holl The Guitar in Gypsy Jazz ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 11.5 MB) Dissertation Dresden 1999.