Reinhardt kehitti uuden jazzkitaran soittotyylin, joka teki suuren vaikutuksen hnt seuranneisiin kitaristeihin. But one evening, he inadvertently dropped a candle in their caravan, and only just escaped the fire that claimed their home. Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means 'I Awake' in the Romani language, however it may. Django's seemingly never-ending bag of licks, tricks and colors always keep the song interesting, and his intensity level is rarely met by any guitarist. His music remains as vital and exciting today as it was when he lived, a legacy of joy to all future generations that rediscover the genius of the Belgian gypsy Django Reinhardt. Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django (French:[do jnat] or [do ent]), was a Romani-Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. With Reda Kateb, Ccile de France, Bea Palya, Bimbam Merstein. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. One song in particular, Louis Armstrong's "Indian Cradle Song," stirred Django to the point that he turned to his friend and muttered in awe, "Achmon, my brother, my brother" This was Django's first encounter with jazz music, and his impression of it was that it represented incredible freedom. He played mainly with a plectrum for maximum volume and attack (particularly in the 1920s-early 30s when amplification in venues was minimal or non-existent), although he could also play fingerstyle on occasion, as evidenced by some recorded introductions and solos. Jazz Manouche and Gypsy Jazz They had a son, Babik Reinhardt, who became a respected guitarist.[23]. Django Reinhardt first married a girl named Florine Mayer when he was seventeen. A number of authors have repeated the claim that Reinhardt's nickname, Django, is Romani for "I awake";[2]:45 however, it may also simply have been a diminutive, or local Walloon version, of "Jean". One night, Django came home and accidentally knocked over a candle on his way to bed. In the fifties, bebop superseded swing in jazz, rock and roll took off, and electric instruments became dominant in popular music. In 1953, he collaborated with the famed jazz musician Dizzie Gillespie and created a few records. Henri Baumgartner (19291992), known professionally as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French gypsy jazz guitarist and the first son of Django Reinhardt by his first wife, Florine Mayer. He was once captured but a jazz loving German officer helped him escape. Django Reinhardt is jazz guitar's most dazzling soloist, improviser, and most important, innovator. Django's father was a talented musician and it was from him that he learned his first instrument, the violin, as a young child around camp fires. The recording was issued for the first time in the late 1950s. Este considerat unul din cei mai mari chitariti de jazz ai tuturor timpurilor i este primul muzician de talie mondial "produs" de continentul european. [11]:93, When World War II broke out, the original quintet was on tour in the United Kingdom. Pendant ses jeunes annes, la roulotte familiale voit du pays, avant de se fixer au sud de Paris. On the 16th of May, 1953, Django Reinhardt suffered a fatal stroke while walking home from a performance at a Paris club. Gypsies, frequently on the road and often with much time available to fill with the pursuit of art, were perfect conduits for the world music spirit. Django is on top form; full of new ideas that are executed with amazing fluidity, cutting angular lines that always retain that ferocious swing.[38]. "[42], The popularity of gypsy jazz has generated an increasing number of festivals, such as the Festival Django Reinhardt held every last weekend of June since 1983 in Samois-sur-Seine (France),[43][44] the various DjangoFests held throughout Europe[45] and the US, and Django in June, an annual camp for Gypsy jazz musicians and aficionados. Before he could start working with the band, Reinhardt faced a terrible accident. He was sent back to Paris, where he tried developing other forms of music since the Nazis completely disapproved of jazz. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. [22], In 1938, Reinhardt's quintet played to thousands at an all-star show held in London's Kilburn State auditorium. Did Django Reinhardt have any children? Even the few times he does not quite make his ideas flow out flawlessly it is still so exciting that mistakes don't matter! His legacy was in part, created when he was caught in a large fire at a young age. Le jeune Jean Reinhardt, dit Django , dcouvre la musique par la pratique du violon puis du banjo ; il est sollicit dans l'orchestre paternel. Moreover, he had general difficulties living amidst the present-day culture. [a] Dallas was raised by his great-aunt Kali, Lousson's half-sister, referred to as "Madame Rose" in Dregni's 2008 account, and retains private recordings of Lousson, a number of which have been published by him via YouTube. With Woody Allen, Ben Duncan, Daniel Okrent, Dan Moran. He played a few tunes at the end of the show, backed by Ellington, with no special arrangements written for him. This was in part due to the help of a Luftwaffe official named Dietrich Schulz-Khn, also known as "Doktor Jazz," who deeply admired Reinhardt's music. Willie Nelson wore a Django Reinhardt T-shirt on tour in Europe in 2002, stating in an interview that he admired Django's music and ability. Sweet and Lowdown: Directed by Woody Allen. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant. These posthumous compilations include Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes, Le Jazz Hot, Djangos Guitar, The Immortal Django Reinhardt Guitar and Routes to Django Reinhardt. His father was named Jean Eugene Weiss, but used the alias "Jean-Baptiste Reinhard" on the birth certificate to hide from French military . Is that accurate? After having played a broad spectrum of music, he was introduced to American jazz by an acquaintance, mile Savitry, whose record collection included such musical luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. Hvert r bliver der afholdt en festival til . He skipped sold-out concerts to "walk to the beach" or "smell the dew. Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. This technique permits him to play with an inconceivable velocity and makes his instrument completely versatile. However, Reinhardt later had second thoughts about what role he could play alongside Goodman, who was the "King of Swing", and remained in France. This aspect of the artist's work also motivated Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who was inspired by Reinhardt to keep playing guitar after a factory accident that cost him two fingertips. He sometimes showed up for scheduled concerts without a guitar or amplifier, or wandered off to the park or beach. [73] A few fragments of film performance (without original sound) also survive, as does one complete performance with sound, of the tune "J'Attendrai" performed with the Quintet in 1938 for the short film Le Jazz Hot. In August 1934, he made other recordings with more than one guitar (Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, and Reinhardt), including the first recording by the Quintette. He used to draw large crowds to his performances. Two of his fingers were badly burnt and he thought that he would never be able to play the guitar again. The caravan which Reinhardt shared with his wife caught fire one night . [30][31], In Rome in 1949, Reinhardt recruited three Italian jazz players (on bass, piano, and snare drum) and recorded over 60 tunes in an Italian studio. His relative association of experience, reinforced by a profound rational knowledge of his instrument; the guitar's possibilities and limitations; his love for music and the expression of itall are a necessary adjunct to the means of expressing these emotions.[36]. [3][4] Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time; he was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the guitar genre. His final years were difficult. Reinhardt was the most famous jazz musician in Europe at the time, working steadily during the early war years and earning a great deal of money, yet always under threat. In it, Captain Murphy comments on a drink dispensed from the Bebop Cola machine: "Ahh, Mango Reinhardt! Even today, nobody has really come to the state that he was playing at. Seus pais, Jean-Eugne Weiss e Laurence Reinhardt, ciganos franceses, o criaram em meio ao seu acampamento. Henri Baumgartner), played jazz in a mostly bebop style in the 1950s and 1960s. Tired of waiting, Reinhardt returned to France in February 1947. Furthermore, what makes his style of playing so special? Instead, he reinvented the jazz guitar and became a legend. They came to light via recordings by Matelo Ferret in 1960 (the waltzes "Montagne Sainte-Genevieve", "Gagoug", "Chez Jacquet" and "Choti"; Disques Vogue (F)EPL7740) and 1961 ("Djalamichto" and "En Verdine"; Disques Vogue (F)EPL7829). Joseph's son Markus Reinhardt is a violinist in the Romani style. Today, there is no other jazz musician who has a whole genre developed in his wake. He quickly learned to play, mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched, who would have included local virtuoso players of the day such as Jean "Poulette" Castro and Auguste "Gusti" Malha, as well as from his uncle Guiligou, who played violin, banjo and guitar. By the early 1940s, Django Reinhardt was considered by many to be Paris' greatest star. He also produced some of his characteristic "effects" by moving a fixed shape (such as a diminished chord) rapidly up and down the fretboard, resulting in what one writer has called "intervallic cycling of melodic motifs and chords". His father was Jean Eugene Weiss and his mother was Laurence Reinhardt. They had one son. The son eventually took the surname of his mother's new husband. The British guitarist Diz Disley plays in a style based on Reinhardt's technique and he collaborated on numerous projects with Stphane Grappelli; Reinhardt also had an influence on other styles and musical genres, including Western Swing, notably in the work of Bob Wills. Django: Directed by Etienne Comar. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. Django Reinhardt, January 23, Gypsy Jazz great Django Reinhardt was born Jean Reinhardt on the 23 January 1910 in Belgium into a Roma family who traveled around France and Belgium, He came from a musical family as his father was a musician and his mother a dancer. The instant I heard Django, I flipped. [57], On 23 January 2010, Google Doodle celebrated Django Reinhards 100th Birthday.[58][59]. Reinhardt recorded over 900 sides in his recording career, from 1928 to 1953, the majority as sides of the then-prevalent 78-RPM records, with the remainder as acetates, transcription discs, private and off-air recordings (of radio broadcasts), and part of a film soundtrack. So, how much is Django Reinhardt worth at the age of 43 years old? The Romani people were a large group of gipsies who suffered a lifetime of persecution. Wayne Jefferies, in his article "Django's Forgotten Era", writes: Early in 1951, armed with his amplified Maccaferri which he used to the very end he put together a new band of the best young modern musicians in Paris; including Hubert Fol, an altoist in the Charlie Parker mould. Django Reinhardt was a resilient and world-renowned Roma musician. Despite his left hand handicap, Reinhardt was able to recapture (in modified form) and then surpass his previous level of proficiency on the guitar (by now his main instrument), not only as a lead instrumental voice but also as a driving and harmonically interesting rhythm player; his virtuosity, incorporating many gypsy-derived influences, was also matched with a superb sense of melodic invention as well as general musicality in terms of choice of notes, timing, dynamics, and utilizing the maximum tonal range from an instrument previously thought of by many critics as potentially limited in expression. After the war, in 1946, Django made the long-awaited trip to America. Musician. A melodic debut segues into some melancholy half bends at 1:07, a common employment. Django would later incorporate his unique musical upbringing into the already thriving jazz scene, introducing to the world an interpretation of the genre which still holds present sway. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. (Photo by LAPI/Roger Viollet/Getty Images), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lousson_Reinhardt&oldid=1105893685, Dregni, Michael. Reinhardt spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, spending carefree days immersed in music. He was declared dead on arrival at the hospital in Fontainebleau. Introduction: Romani-Belgian jazz musician (19101953), Professor of music and guitarist, Mark White, of, Here is Lauren Oliver's transcript of the interview from the radio broadcast: Django's technique was not only phenomenal, but it was personal and unique to him due to his handicap. I love the human sound he gave his acoustic guitar. Fortunately for him, a jazz-loving German, Luftwaffe officer Dietrich Schulz-Khn[de], allowed him to return to Paris. At the age of 12 he received a banjo-guitar as a gift. In this ["Nuages"] graceful and eloquent melody, Django evoked the woes of the war that weighed on people's soulsand then transcended it all. SonicHits. ISBN links support NWE through referral fees. He became adept at stealing chickens. He would also periodically vanish for greater lengths, disappearing for a week or two to play at his beloved gypsy campfires. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2017. http://brokeandbeautiful.com/2014/django-reinhardt-djangofest-northwest/, http://elcorreoweb.es/aladar/django-reinhardt-el-genio-gitano-del-jazz-i-BH1119366, http://alldylan.com/today-the-who-released-live-at-leeds-in-1970/. Additional problems occurred around the dilemma of Django never having learned to tune his own guitar (he had always relied upon his brother Joseph). Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and the first important European jazz musician to make a major contribution with jazz guitar. A French film named Django was released in 2017. However, they parted shortly after the accident. Reinhardt's second son, Babik, became a guitarist in a more contemporary jazz style, and recorded a number of albums before his death in 2001. Django Reinhardt married Florine Mayer in 1927 according to gypsy custom although their marriage was not registered, and therefore not recognised under French law. His young wife, Florine "Bella" Mayer, made fake flowers from celluloid and paper and their caravan was filled with highly flammable materials. It's the first time I have heard the composition on the organ. [19]:93 During a concert at the Salle Pleyel, the popularity of the tune was such that the crowd made him replay it three times in a row. [19]:93. Django returned to Paris at once, leaving behind his wife and band members, and quickly reformed the quintet with Hubert Rostaing on clarinet in place of Grappelli's violin. Managed by: Private User. [26] Reinhardt made a second attempt a few days later, but was stopped in the middle of the night by Swiss border guards, who forced him to return to Paris again. Impressed, Hylton offered Reinhardt a job with his band on the spot, which the latter gladly accepted. His modernist piece "Rythme Futur" was also intended to be acceptable to the Nazis. This also led to him developing a unique technique, in which he could play with only his remaining fingers. It has a little to do with the real Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist . He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one. Jeff Rush Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:48:33 -0700 Michael Schurter wrote: > > Speaking of protecting the logo, my wife contacted the PSF a couple > weeks ago about using the logo on a small run of laptop sleeves she's > crafting. Reinhardt returned to Paris at once,[11]:9899 leaving his wife in the UK. During this time, Django produced numerous recordings with the quintet in addition to forming other side projects with more conventional instrumentations. Since the Nazis were against jazz music, Reinhardt felt the need to escape from France. Lousson's guitar style has been described as following the "most modern" of Django's styles as well as being influenced by Wes Montgomery and Jim Hall. Thu 16 Jun 2011 19.45 EDT I n 1928, at 18, Belgian gypsy musician Django Reinhardt lost the use of the third and fourth fingers of his left hand in a caravan fire, forcing him to abandon both. It was late on the night of November 2, 1928. Jimi Hendrix is said to have named one of his bands the Band of Gypsys because of Django's music. Jean "Django" Reinhardt, fdd 23 januari 1910 i Liberchies nra Pont--Celles, Hainaut, Belgien, dd 16 maj 1953 i Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Frankrike, var en belgisk - fransk sjlvlrd [ 1] jazzgitarrist av romsk hrkomst. The first four are now available on Matelo's CD Tziganskaa and Other Rare Recordings, released by Hot Club Records (subsequently reissued as Tziganskaa: The Django Reinhardt Waltzes); "Chez Jacquet" was also recorded by Baro Ferret in 1966. They were also famous for using an inventive style of employing their guitars for percussion purposes, as they had no true percussion section. [35] For an unsurpassed insight into these techniques in use, interested persons should not miss viewing the only known synchronised (sound and vision) footage of Reinhardt in performance, playing on an instrumental version of the song "J'Attendrai" for the short jazz film Le Jazz Hot in 193839 (copies available on YouTube and elsewhere). Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again. It was released on 2 June 2015, by Legacy Recordings. He united with Grappelli, and used his acoustic Selmer-Maccaferri. Many guitar players and other musicians have expressed admiration for Reinhardt or have cited him as a major influence. The actor had three different marriages throughout his life. Vola invited them to jam with his jazz ensemble, consisting of violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist Roger Chaput who was sometimes replaced with Pierre Ferret. [7][4] Francis-Alfred Moerman, who accompanied Sarane Ferret for many years, played with Lousson for several years in the 1960s and said, "Playing with Lousson was an extraordinary experience; he really had his father's genius in his fingers he really was unluckyhis talent was awesome, but he played in the 1960s, which were the worst years for jazz players, so he was never successful and left no [official] recordings. As well, Reinhardt was known by his band, fans, and managers to be extremely unpredictable. [63], Willie Nelson has been a lifelong Reinhardt fan, stating in his memoir, "This was a man who changed my musical life by giving me a whole new perspective on the guitar and, on an even more profound level, on my relationship with soundDuring my formative years, as I listened to Django's records, especially songs like 'Nuages' that I would play for the rest of my life, I studied his technique. Well, it could be because he follows his musical taste and not his fingers. These performances drew large audiences. Reinhardt was touring in England when the World War II broke out. The son of a musician, Reinhardt toured the US from an early age with Duke Ellingtons orchestra. Jazz and swing music was not yet on the young Django's radar yet, however, but his musical repertoire as a young man included being adept at playing the guitar, violin and banjo. Jean 'Django' Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian guitarist and composer credited with popularizing Gypsy jazz, as well as conceptualizing the style together with several other Gypsy musicians. I believe he should be rated much more highly as a be-bop guitarist. His part . Jeff Beck described Reinhardt as "by far the most astonishing guitar player ever" and "quite superhuman".[61]. When their set ended, Cantor rose to his feet, then went up on stage and kissed Reinhardt's hand, paying no concern to the audience. Harlan Ellison's short story "Django" is a fantasia about a guitarist, with similarities to Reinhardt. In the climax of the movies, his hands are smashed by his enemies and he is forced to fire a gun with his wounded hands. Django also worked on composing a Mass for use by the gypsies, which was not completed although an 8-minute extract exists, played by the organist Lo Chauliac for Reinhardt's benefit, via a 1944 radio broadcast; this can be found on the CD release "Gipsy Jazz School" and also on volume 12 of the "Intgrale Django Reinhardt" CD compilation.[c]. Due to this nature, Django may have been a bit detached from the world of practicality, more often adrift in the realm of spirit from where his ardent affection for music stemmed from. [13]:11 Accompanying him on his travels was his new girlfriend, Sophie Ziegler. [11]:92 While playing, he noticed American film actor Eddie Cantor in the front row. On May 16th 1953 Django suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and died, leaving behind his wife Sophie and son Babik. [13]:10 Hylton offered him a job on the spot, and Reinhardt accepted. Django was around his family all the time; when he was not hiding out with them, they would go to where he was. A French film based on his lifetitled Djangowas also released recently. A full chronological listing of his lifetime recorded output is available from the source cited here,[72] and an index of individual tunes is available from the source cited here. He had no specific goals, living a hand-to-mouth existence, spending his earnings as quickly as he made them. Both his sons, Lousson and Babik, also followed in his footsteps and became jazz guitarists. Reinhardt died suddenly of a stroke on 16 May 1953. [8] His mother, Laurence Reinhardt, was a dancer. The Django web framework, a Python web framework, was named after Reinhardt. DR: No, no, no, don't think that. When he was 14, the young artist began his professional career accompanying the popular accordionist, Guerino, in underworld Parisian dance halls. "___ pronounce you husband and wife": 2 wds. By his early teens, he had started playing in clubs across Paris. As Django aged, he would spend the majority of his days re-immersing himself in gypsy life, having found it difficult to adjust to the modern world. Songs written in Reinhardt's honor include "Django," composed by John Lewis, which has become a jazz standard performed by musicians such as Miles Davis. [54], Numerous musicians have written and recorded tributes to Reinhardt. It became the most accomplished and innovative European jazz group of the period. Disappointed, Reinhardt returned to France that same year with his dreams of becoming a great American star broken, though this did not keep him from delving deeper into his career and music. [11]:13, At the age of 17, Reinhardt married Florine "Bella" Mayer, a girl from the same Romani settlement, according to Romani custom (although not an official marriage under French law). Reinhardt re-formed the quintet, with Hubert Rostaing on clarinet replacing Grappelli. in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards. 159 Django Reinhardt Photos Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images Images Creative Editorial Video Creative Editorial FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 159 Django Reinhardt Photos Premium High Res Photos Browse 159 django reinhardt photos stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. Who Is Django Reinhardt's Wife? Often regarded as the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the idiom, he is also revered by guitarists worldwide as among the foremost exponents of the instrument. Django Reinhardt nat le 23 janvier 1910 en Belgique, dans une famille sinti . Film Review: 'Django'. DR: It is an extract of my mass. As World War II was declared, the original quintet was on tour in the United Kingdom. To accomplish this, Django would use his index and middle fingers to manage the fretboard, while his other two fingers, frozen in the form of a claw, could only occassionaly be used for some chords. He also recorded with many other American jazz musicians such as Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter. A: And in what surroundings do you isolate yourself in order to write it's not a question of surroundings. At least eight compilations have also been released. On a few occasions he refused to get out of bed. No one thought he would play again. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. Sophie "Naguine" Reinhardt (Ziegler) Birthdate: estimated between 1879 and 1939. Nicknamed "Naguine," she and Reinhardt were distant cousins. His work has influenced many such artistes like BB King and Carlos Santana. [11]:138139 Having failed to bring his usual Selmer Modle Jazz, he played on a borrowed electric guitar, which he felt hampered the delicacy of his style. These "electric period" Reinhardt recordings have in general received less popular re-release and critical analysis than his pre-war releases (the latter also extending to the period from 1940 to 1945 when Grappelli was absent, which included some of his most famous compositions such as "Nuages"), but are also a fascinating area of Reinhardt's work to study,[38] and have begun to be revived by players such as the Rosenberg Trio (with their 2010 release "Djangologists") and Birli Lagrne. Since the mid-sixties, there has been a revival of interest in Reinhardt's music, a revival that has extended into the 21st century, with annual festivals and periodic tribute concerts. 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