Django Reinhardt...

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tnjazz said:
Doesn't everyone already know about Django Reinhardt?

Anyway, here is the second coming of Django

Of course, he does have a couple more fingers to use... :D
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90% of the musicians I've ever spoken to apart from the educated look puzzled & ask who's he

Django Rheindheart??......never heard of him

guy was an outright genious
 
tnjazz said:
Doesn't everyone already know about Django Reinhardt?

Anyway, here is the second coming of Django

Of course, he does have a couple more fingers to use... :D
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No, everyone does not. But this video may enlighten them, as it did me. :cool:

Yah...having five to start with helps. :D

I could not get sound on the player in your link.
 
Gypsy Jazz Django has been my favorite Jazz Guitarist for years.

I listen to Bereli Lagrene a lot now.. he's awesome and styled after Django:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8381484760231574197&q=bireli+lagrene
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7593996446992020271&q=bireli+lagrene
(check out his riff 1:58 into the song.. woah..)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1722629190082816976&q=bireli+lagrene
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3154033383327164602&q=bireli+lagrene

You'll notice he is using two or three different acoustic guitars all of which are modeled after the acoustic guitars Django and his rhytm guitar players used.

I'd argue he's the most acknowledged and respected Gypsy Jazz guitarist to date now.. however here are some others that are awesome:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2298414806407901054&q=jimmy+rosenberg
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8243323341344422869&q=bireli+lagrene
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4628373817360195062&q=jimmy+rosenberg
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9117479930113272761&q=jimmy+rosenberg

Notice all of the above guitarists use they same type of acoustic guitar. They use light steel strings and the sonics of the guitar make it really snappy and sound almost as if the strings were somewhat nylon (but aren't).

A google video search on Django:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=django
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=django+reinhardt
Lots of Django enthusiasts as you see.

And of a video of Django himself (alogn with his band including
excellent jazz fiddlist Stephan Grapeli.. very well known and respected jazz fiddler) .. notice him just using two picking fingers (and thumb sometimes and third finger sometimes when chording) to get that sound (imagine if he had all four!):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7069446254191206241&q=django+reinhardt

Btw regarding this video: I've heard Django play on recordings which sound three times and complicated and hot.

I fiddle and play jazz guitar myself.. and enjoy this stuff a bunch.

James
 
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true-eurt said:
No, everyone does not. But this video may enlighten them, as it did me. :cool:

Yah...having five to start with helps. :D

I could not get sound on the player in your link.
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Wow, I thought all guitar players knew about Django. It should be required learning before you even strap on a guitar, IMO!

Not sure why you can't get sound. The video is on youtube as well:

Joscho Stephan

You can also search on his name for additional video.

Well OK, maybe not the second coming of Django. Still, a better guitar player than most people will be in THREE lifetimes, and he's in his early 20's... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Monkey Allen said:
There's footage actually of him?
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Yes. Follow the links. This is the ONLY known footage of Django and the Hot Club.
 
Updated my earlier post above with many links to Bireli Lagrene and other gypsy jazz guitarist as well as a video of Django himself.

James
 
Django was awesome. There's a movie about him. I can't remember the name of it but I think it came out around 5-6 years ago? Seems about right.
 
tnjazz said:
Wow, I thought all guitar players knew about Django. It should be required learning before you even strap on a guitar, IMO!

Not sure why you can't get sound. The video is on youtube as well:

Joscho Stephan

You can also search on his name for additional video.

Well OK, maybe not the second coming of Django. Still, a better guitar player than most people will be in THREE lifetimes, and he's in his early 20's... :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


Yes. Follow the links. This is the ONLY known footage of Django and the Hot Club.
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Thank you very much for posting the youtube link. That was amazing. :)
 
movie was called "Sweet and Lowdown". Sean Penn plays Django and it's directed by Woody Allen. I have no clue what Django was really like but it was a pretty decent flick. it came out in 99.
 
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Amazing technique on those youtube clips...makes it all look so easy
 
TravisinFlorida said:
movie was called "Sweet and Lowdown". Sean Penn plays Django and it's directed by Woody Allen. I have no clue what Django was really like but it was a pretty decent flick. it came out in 99.
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I have heard of that movie before, but never knew it was about a real guitarist. I don't watch much TV anymore, but do like movies. I will see about renting it.


Does it have some good tunes in it? I wonder who is actually playing the guitar in the flick.
 
true-ert, did you check out all those links i posted with regards to django? Posted links to like ten videos up above. Bireli blows me a away.

james
 
chipwits said:
true-ert, did you check out all those links i posted with regards to django? Posted links to like ten videos up above. Bireli blows me a away.

james
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Yes !! And Jimmy Rosenberg amazed me too !! :eek: :D
 
did Django record an electric album??

I heard that Jimmy Page took a lot of influence from DR's electric album
 
...movie was called "Sweet and Lowdown". Sean Penn plays Django and it's directed by Woody Allen...
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That movie's not about Django, it's about a fictional guitarist named Emmet Ray who is perhaps modelled (somewhat loosely) after Django, and other musicians like Bix Beiderbecke. In the movie the character considers himself the second best jazz guitarist in the world after Django and is somewhat comically obsessed with him.
 
AlChuck said:
That movie's not about Django, it's about a fictional guitarist named Emmet Ray who is perhaps modelled (somewhat loosely) after Django, and other musicians like Bix Beiderbecke. In the movie the character considers himself the second best jazz guitarist in the world after Django and is somewhat comically obsessed with him.
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my bad. you are correct sir. you know us hippies are with our memory problems. :D
 
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