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Quintette du Hot Club de France was one of the early, and most significant, jazz groups in Europe. Its most famous members might be Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, and Louis Vola, but the two rhythm guitarists were essential for the specific group sound. They also used their guitars for percussive sounds, as they had no true percussion section. The concept of "lead guitar" (Django) and backing "rhythm guitar" (Joseph Reinhardt/Roger Chaput or Pierre Ferret), applied by most bands, including virtually all rock and pop bands, was originally developed in the Quintette.[citation needed]
There are several versions of how the band was formed. The most likely comes from Louis Vola, who said in an interview that he found the Reinhardt brothers playing on a beach at Toulon. He invited them to jam with his own band, which included Grappelli and Chaput. This is the reason why the Quintette had an unusual lineup of three guitars, violin and string bass. It is thought that the band called themselves after a French Jazz society called The Hot Club de France. But there was an actual Hot Club in Paris and the band did play there.
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