Dude...We are in 2024 and as a modest guitarist for Grand Royal Tokyo, I was searching some CBS sessions recording where S. Grappelli and him had a fight because I am reading "Django" by Michael Dregni, I felt on these song and the first notes recorded here are just blowing my mind...Musicality. Dexterity added with this "je ne sais quoi" of insanity...! Thank you !
I always have an ear to music and what might be coming out there. All I can say is not much headed our way that can match Django's era. Believe me, I'm hungry for it and it just isn't out there.
Django is never mentioned in the greatest ever guitarist polls. But you can bet your bottom dollar well into the future all today's guitar gods will be forgotten and their will be a new bunch of guitar heroes. But Django will still be relevant he was just to good to be forgotten
Excellent! On entend Django jouer un peu plus sur la durée car les enregistrements de cette époque avaient un format très court - dans les trois minutes environ - ce qui est parfois frustrant bien que Django fusse parfait dans le temps qui lui était imparti. Je rêve d'un enregistrement qui lui donnerait le temps de développer son jeu afin qu'il donne toute sa mesure de virtuose ! En attendant force est de constater qu'il ne manque aucune note et qu'aucune note n'est de trop ce qui est l'apanage d'un musicien accompli ! Essaillez de jouer ses solos avec vos quatre doigts et vous comprendrez alors le caractère quasi miraculeux de son jeu !
Parler sans cesse de Django comme le "père du jazz manouche", c'est le réduire à une dimension ridicule. Django n'est pas le musicien d'une communauté, il est un électron libre dont la carrière finalement courte montre une capacité d'évolution fulgurante. De tous les musuciens de jazz français d'avant guerre, il est le seul à avoir compris l'importance du bebop. Dès le début, son phrasé était celui du jazz. Et il faut écouter ses derniers enregistrements pour comprendre le chemin qu'il a parcouru. Django était un musicien de jazz, chez qui la virtuosité était au service de la musique, ce qui est en général le contraire chez la plupart des guitaristes manouches...
Attention, cette photo a été prise par Serge Jacques, qui a aujourd'hui 97 ans. Merci de la créditer. J'ai un tirage original, et on peut s'en procurer encore en le contactant par mon intermédiaire.
Consider the possibility that he might have been a less interesting player had the accident never happened! While he was still a capable rhythm player after the accident, and did do sessions as a rhythm guitarist, I can imagine that by concentrating on melody and solo lines that he could play with (mostly) two fingers helped his melodic genius flower. You think about the fret board differently when you approach it like a violin or bass player.
@@jesusonazareth4752 It is more than just focus on the melodies. The guitar is a box framed instrument by nature. Most every guitarist plays across the fret board. It is hard to break away from horizontal approach to the fret board. By necessity, Django had to learn the fret board vertically allowing him to go anywhere his genius led him. That's why he plays with an absolutely seamless flow, no unintended jumps from one form to another. I really do not think he would have developed this extraordinary versatility if he had the use of all his fingers. I took a summer workshop at Eastman School of Music with Gene Bertoncini many years ago where he urged us to learn every scale and every arpeggio on each string individually to give total freedom in all directions. I'm still working on it 40 years later!
@@ztahs or like Grapelli said to everyone, Reinhardt was his assistance:-) after Djangos death they put his name not on the record cover. Thats not nice, he was very talented too!
Also, a lot of people don't know that Stéphane Grappelli's first instrument was the piano. I saw and heard him play both instruments in concert way back in another century and, believe it or not, he was just as great on the 88's as he was on the violin.
Wow, this is lovely, then I read it was Django on violin. Was he allowed out of occupied France for dates in occupied Belgium? I don't know why they wouldn't but just curious.
I'm not a WWII expert, but apparently Belgium was also occupied along with France, and the Nazi's, despite, their general hostility towards Roma people, did not give Django a hard time. In fact, his most commercially successful years, his years of greatest fame, were his wartime years in France (according to the Michael Dregni biography of Django). He supposedly played for Nazi officers in person. That doesn't mean the border guards all loved him too, but, long story short, he apparently was able to travel to Belgium.
@@zenobardot He lost many Sinti relatives when Vichy (Nazi) France allowed the same BS that was going on in Germany. They didn't touch him because he was already popular with officers and enlisted in the Wehrmacht who loved Jazz and Django "was" European Jazz. Himmler tried to foment hate for Jazz but it was too late in most of "hip" Europe. Guards knew who he was as he would evade trouble by simply telling them. He tried to escape twice his double life under the Nazi's but was caught at the border.
@@martshankleman Yeah I read the same. I think he made a couple escape attempts early in the war before he realized he'd be ok due to his popularity. WW2 was his best earnings and Nuage became the "national anthem" when the Marselleise was banned. There is a famous picture of him, a Nazi officer, and 2 black musicians in occupied Paris. The picture looks me like all of them giving resistance to Goebbels anti jazz, anti black, anti gypsy policies. It's suggested, by some who study the history, that the Nazi officer pictured provided some kind of protection for Django. Also suggested that he repeatedly ignored "invitations" to perform in Germany.
Just to be mean to Django fans. No, actually CZcams does that, I have no control, and they keep getting worse and worse, the idea being you will eventually be annoyed enough to buy the premium CZcams service. So far I've resisted.
Beautiful. There's only one Django.
Big part of my life listening to Django music
Dude...We are in 2024 and as a modest guitarist for Grand Royal Tokyo, I was searching some CBS sessions recording where S. Grappelli and him had a fight because I am reading "Django" by Michael Dregni, I felt on these song and the first notes recorded here are just blowing my mind...Musicality. Dexterity added with this "je ne sais quoi" of insanity...!
Thank you !
Für mich ist er wertvoll und der beste mein aller beste Gitarrist der Welt keine kan sowas schönes nach machen wie er
Django you made my life so much easier :) thank you for all the masterpieces you gave the world
He is a genius the things he can do I would like to have seen him with Nils Ostred Henning Pederson or Jaco Patstorias
I love that piano's left hand
Le grand Django.. inégalé
Great thanks
Great music/musicians. Thank you. M. Reinhardt looks very much younger without his moustache!
Hm. He wears his usual moustache in photo.....
Super pianiste en effet !!!!
Beautiful . . .
Great feel
I always have an ear to music and what might be coming out there. All I can say is not much headed our way that can match Django's era. Believe me, I'm hungry for it and it just isn't out there.
In the words of Stephen Grappelli .
There can be many great guitarists but there will never be another
Djjango Reinhardt !!! .
Django is never mentioned in the greatest ever guitarist polls. But you can bet your bottom dollar well into the future all today's guitar gods will be forgotten and their will be a new bunch of guitar heroes. But Django will still be relevant he was just to good to be forgotten
Raro y bello recuerdo de Django....
Gracias.....y más aun interpretando el violín.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a great recording. Much thanks for sharing.
Excellent! On entend Django jouer un peu plus sur la durée car les enregistrements de cette époque avaient un format très court - dans les trois minutes environ - ce qui est parfois frustrant bien que Django fusse parfait dans le temps qui lui était imparti. Je rêve d'un enregistrement qui lui donnerait le temps de développer son jeu afin qu'il donne toute sa mesure de virtuose !
En attendant force est de constater qu'il ne manque aucune note et qu'aucune note n'est de trop ce qui est l'apanage d'un musicien accompli !
Essaillez de jouer ses solos avec vos quatre doigts et vous comprendrez alors le caractère quasi miraculeux de son jeu !
exactement
Yes, true awesome! Django forever!
Wonderful.
Excellent masterpiece
Django was not only a genius for his music but also for avoiding the Nazi round ups of Romani. Shame he didn't live longer
Who can belive that's music oround and during the W2.W?
Quf gusto poder escucharlo,gracias!
Für mich der beste Gitarrist ❤❤❤❤❤
GRANDE, GRANDE..........
The best
Parler sans cesse de Django comme le "père du jazz manouche", c'est le réduire à une dimension ridicule. Django n'est pas le musicien d'une communauté, il est un électron libre dont la carrière finalement courte montre une capacité d'évolution fulgurante. De tous les musuciens de jazz français d'avant guerre, il est le seul à avoir compris l'importance du bebop. Dès le début, son phrasé était celui du jazz. Et il faut écouter ses derniers enregistrements pour comprendre le chemin qu'il a parcouru. Django était un musicien de jazz, chez qui la virtuosité était au service de la musique, ce qui est en général le contraire chez la plupart des guitaristes manouches...
Well said sir,how can you put him in a straightjacket of our limitations.Thank you for thoughts.
Great video with fantastic notes. THANK YOU!
Attention, cette photo a été prise par Serge Jacques, qui a aujourd'hui 97 ans. Merci de la créditer. J'ai un tirage original, et on peut s'en procurer encore en le contactant par mon intermédiaire.
thanks
Probably the style of piano playing that fits the best with most Gypsy Jazz.
Yep, the "oom-pah" is key to stride piano and the QHCF sound. I wish Django and Fats Waller could have recorded duets. It would have been smoking hot.
Yep I had a very interesting conversation about piano playing in gypsy jazz on the djangobooks forum and this style won by far
nice !!!
I'm guessing you aren't the Steven Bernstein of Sex Mob fame (that would be too cool), but regardless, thanks for commenting and listening.
guitarist at HISTORIC DOWNTOWNER in Ft Lauderdale. there's quit a few Steven Bernstein musicians !!
One can only imagine what Django would have been capable of if he had the full use of his left hand. Guy never ceases to amaze me.
Consider the possibility that he might have been a less interesting player had the accident never happened! While he was still a capable rhythm player after the accident, and did do sessions as a rhythm guitarist, I can imagine that by concentrating on melody and solo lines that he could play with (mostly) two fingers helped his melodic genius flower. You think about the fret board differently when you approach it like a violin or bass player.
@@jesusonazareth4752 Good point. It probably did make him focus in a totally different way.
@Kevin Huang As things turned out, he had some pretty good assistance on the violin with Stéphane Grappelli.
@@jesusonazareth4752 It is more than just focus on the melodies. The guitar is a box framed instrument by nature. Most every guitarist plays across the fret board. It is hard to break away from horizontal approach to the fret board. By necessity, Django had to learn the fret board vertically allowing him to go anywhere his genius led him. That's why he plays with an absolutely seamless flow, no unintended jumps from one form to another. I really do not think he would have developed this extraordinary versatility if he had the use of all his fingers. I took a summer workshop at Eastman School of Music with Gene Bertoncini many years ago where he urged us to learn every scale and every arpeggio on each string individually to give total freedom in all directions. I'm still working on it 40 years later!
@@ztahs or like Grapelli said to everyone, Reinhardt was his assistance:-) after Djangos death they put his name not on the record cover. Thats not nice, he was very talented too!
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Nunca hasta hoy escuché a Reinhardt tocar el violín...
Super l incroyable django
la classe !
Bravissimo - non c'e' che dire.
That is DJANGO on violin on the 2nd song BLUES MINEUR -
Also, a lot of people don't know that Stéphane Grappelli's first instrument was the piano. I saw and heard him play both instruments in concert way back in another century and, believe it or not, he was just as great on the 88's as he was on the violin.
django, genio total
sem duvidas
The style at this moment seems to me to be Stephane Grapelly!!!
8:48 violin
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I mmmmmm’ed outloud
4:58🙃 charmingly
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the boos
Wow, this is lovely, then I read it was Django on violin.
Was he allowed out of occupied France for dates in occupied Belgium? I don't know why they wouldn't but just curious.
I'm not a WWII expert, but apparently Belgium was also occupied along with France, and the Nazi's, despite, their general hostility towards Roma people, did not give Django a hard time. In fact, his most commercially successful years, his years of greatest fame, were his wartime years in France (according to the Michael Dregni biography of Django). He supposedly played for Nazi officers in person. That doesn't mean the border guards all loved him too, but, long story short, he apparently was able to travel to Belgium.
@@zenobardot He lost many Sinti relatives when Vichy (Nazi) France allowed the same BS that was going on in Germany. They didn't touch him because he was already popular with officers and enlisted in the Wehrmacht who loved Jazz and Django "was" European Jazz. Himmler tried to foment hate for Jazz but it was too late in most of "hip" Europe. Guards knew who he was as he would evade trouble by simply telling them. He tried to escape twice his double life under the Nazi's but was caught at the border.
I read in a book that Django sought refuge in Switzerland, but was turned away by the Swiss.
@@martshankleman Yeah I read the same. I think he made a couple escape attempts early in the war before he realized he'd be ok due to his popularity. WW2 was his best earnings and Nuage became the "national anthem" when the Marselleise was banned. There is a famous picture of him, a Nazi officer, and 2 black musicians in occupied Paris. The picture looks me like all of them giving resistance to Goebbels anti jazz, anti black, anti gypsy policies. It's suggested, by some who study the history, that the Nazi officer pictured provided some kind of protection for Django. Also suggested that he repeatedly ignored "invitations" to perform in Germany.
WOW..!! is there CD of this recording ?
Begin the Beguine is masterful as well as Nuages, also on that same album of December 1942 in Brussels.
2. voice of du hot club de france. Michelle.
The best guitarist that ever lived magical
Why did you put so many fucking adverts in it?
Just to be mean to Django fans. No, actually CZcams does that, I have no control, and they keep getting worse and worse, the idea being you will eventually be annoyed enough to buy the premium CZcams service. So far I've resisted.
@@jesusonazareth4752 I've got Adblock now, it's free, I don't see adverts at all.
This is fake. A imitation...
Pruebas
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