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Jazz, gypsy jazz, bebop, Romani music. Occupation (s) Guitarist, composer. Instrument (s) Guitar, violin, banjo. Years active. 1928–1953. Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a Belgian-French Manouche or Sinti jazz guitarist and ...
Mar 7, 2023 · Cornelius Corkery has been in London for over five years playing the regular Hot Club haunts in the city. He started a podcast, Gypsy Jazz Hangouts, in 2020 and is about to take his show The Django Songbook on tour. “Django’s music transcends generations, fads and trends,” he says. “It’s hard to imagine this music ever being irrelevant.
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After the gruesome accident, Iommi, “extremely depressed,” tragically resigned himself to never play the guitar again — that is, until his factory manager visited him in the hospital and told him the story of Django Reinhardt, the Belgian-Romani swing guitarist who lost two fingers in a terrible fire at age 18, himself just ...
Sep 27, 2024 · Django Reinhardt (born January 23, 1910, Liberchies, Belgium—died May 16, 1953, Fontainebleau, France) was a guitarist who is generally considered one of the few European jazz musicians of true originality. Reinhardt, who was of Roma (Gypsy) parentage, traveled through France and Belgium as a boy and young man learning to play the violin ...
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YouTube. When you hear the guitar playing of Django Reinhardt, with its fluid phrasing and lightning-fast arpeggios, it's incredible to think that he had only two good fingers on his left hand. When Reinhardt was 18 years old he was badly burned in a fire. It was late on the night of November 2, 1928. Open Culture, openculture.com.
Mar 30, 2017 · Django Reinhardt - "J'attendrai Swing" (Live, 1939) Also lacking a horn section, the all-string quintet would rely on Grappelli's violin and Reinhardt's Selmer guitar to carry the melody, bringing the guitar to the forefront of the mix as not only a rhythm instrument (as it was approached as the time) but an instrument capable of breathtakingly complex and melodic leads.
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Jan 22, 2010 · Pianist John Lewis led one of the most popular jazz groups of all time, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and one of his most popular compositions is titled "Django." Lewis wrote the tune after learning of ...
