...and Django Reinhardt, the gypsy jazz guitar virtuoso
These guys are pimps. Django and Stephane got all the ladies back then.
Django on Wikipedia
A good Django Reinhardt article in the New Yorker Magazine
posted by blend77 at 9:55 PM
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
These guys are pimps. Django and Stephane got all the ladies back then.
Django on Wikipedia
A good Django Reinhardt article in the New Yorker Magazine
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3 Comments:
Imagine if Django had the use of all of his fingers.
seriously....even jimi wouldnt have been able to touch his skills...
you should see the movie "sweet and lowdown" with sean penn. its loosely based on Django....its a woody allen movie, i think...
first, thank you so much for psoting that clip. Reinhardt is perhaps my favorite guitarist of all time for the beauty of his playing and, moreover, his very unique technique.
jimi was never able to touch his skills. if you listen to the work Reinhardt did in the early 50's and went electric, you'd totally know where i'm coming from. while not my absolute favorite period of Reinhardt's work, it is at this point when he did some of his most mind-blowing work. the runs are as crisp and fast as ever, if not faster and crisper, and he really learned to utilize the versatility of electric guitar, which was a young invention at the time.
his patented single note runs have been copied by guitarists ever since. his picking style can be heard in the strokes of all great guitar virtuoso... jazz or otherwise. me laid a lot of groundwork for the great guitarists for today for sure. even great metal guitarists such as vai, satriani, batio and many others have credited him as having a major influence on various aspects of their technique, the picking of every note in a run is the main contribution.
at this point, i think that i have almost everything that Reinhardt ever recorded, and if i don't have it, at least i've been fortunate enough to have heard it. for any die hard Reinhardt fan that doesn't alreay have it, i would strongly recommend the comp 'Rare Django.' the earliest recordings are from the late 20's where he is heard playing a six-string banjo tuned like a guitar (which if you read the wiki article you already know). it also features him accompanying obscure french singers that have long since been mostly forgotten. i've never found it in a record shop, but some of you in the big city might have better luck. oddly enough, it is on iTunes. of all the material they don't have of his, they have this. a must for any Reinhardt collector or collector of older, rare music.
as one can tell, he's one of my favs, but he is yet one of many. he's the original sultan of swing. read the wiki on him and let yourself be further impressed.
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