Django Reinhardt story and videos
Here's a French site "About-django" with a great collection of gypsy swing videos of Django Reinhardt, Tschawolo, Les Yeux Noirs, Stochelo Rosenberg and other gypsy swing guitarists.
Born in 1910, Django Reinhardt grew up in a gypsy camp on the outskirts of Paris, and performed in local cafes with his father when he was a boy.
The story goes that Django nearly lost his life, when he was 18, in a terrible fire in the caravan where he was sleeping. . . A candle, knocked over in the night, set the room full of dried flowers on fire and scarred him for life. Two fingers on his left hand were paralyzed and his left leg was badly damaged.
In spite of this tragedy, Django kept on playing guitar. When he first heard recordings of the exciting new music being made in America by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Django was inspired to experiment. He began blending jazz rhythms with traditional European gypsy music. (Link1)
Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe - and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. A free-spirited gypsy, Reinhardt wasn't the most reliable person in the world, frequently wandering off into the countryside on a whim. Yet Reinhardt came up with a unique way of propelling the humble acoustic guitar into the front line of a jazz combo in the days before amplification became widespread. He would spin joyous, arcing, marvelously inflected solos above the thrumming base of two rhythm guitars and a bass. (Link2)
Hey, and if you're a guitarist who would like to learn a solo or two, it is going to be extremely difficult without this piece of software called (Transcribe). This tool offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow the music down without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present. A trial version for 30 days might be good enough to learn a few solos.
Born in 1910, Django Reinhardt grew up in a gypsy camp on the outskirts of Paris, and performed in local cafes with his father when he was a boy.
The story goes that Django nearly lost his life, when he was 18, in a terrible fire in the caravan where he was sleeping. . . A candle, knocked over in the night, set the room full of dried flowers on fire and scarred him for life. Two fingers on his left hand were paralyzed and his left leg was badly damaged.
In spite of this tragedy, Django kept on playing guitar. When he first heard recordings of the exciting new music being made in America by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Django was inspired to experiment. He began blending jazz rhythms with traditional European gypsy music. (Link1)
Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe - and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. A free-spirited gypsy, Reinhardt wasn't the most reliable person in the world, frequently wandering off into the countryside on a whim. Yet Reinhardt came up with a unique way of propelling the humble acoustic guitar into the front line of a jazz combo in the days before amplification became widespread. He would spin joyous, arcing, marvelously inflected solos above the thrumming base of two rhythm guitars and a bass. (Link2)
Hey, and if you're a guitarist who would like to learn a solo or two, it is going to be extremely difficult without this piece of software called (Transcribe). This tool offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow the music down without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present. A trial version for 30 days might be good enough to learn a few solos.
posted by O.marian at 13:07
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