He is a genius the things he can do I would like to have seen him with Nils Ostred Henning Pederson or Jaco Patstorias

Hm. He wears his usual moustache in photo.....

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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

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

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!

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 !!

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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.

Well said sir,how can you put him in a straightjacket of our limitations.Thank you for thoughts.

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.

The best guitarist that ever lived magical

Begin the Beguine is masterful as well as Nuages, also on that same album of December 1942 in Brussels.

Just to be mean to Django fans. No, actually KZfaq 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 KZfaq service. So far I've resisted.

@@jesusonazareth4752 I've got Adblock now, it's free, I don't see adverts at all.

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