A number of front-rank European and American jazz artists united at Lincoln Center for the annual salute to the memory of Django Reinhardt, the legendary Belgian Gypsy guitarist who died in 1953. A ...
Just hearing the word “Django” may bring thoughts of music or dance for some. And they would be right. “Django” is a 1954 ...
2010 is the 100th birthday—the centennial—of Django Reinhardt’s birth. He was born in a gypsy wagon in a suburb of Brussels in 1910. Although he only lived to be 43, dying in 1953, he wrote the book ...
In the sphere of improvisational guitarists one name always warrants mention: Django Reinhardt. He was in a class by himself and has been referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of jazz guitar. To this day no ...
The eighth annual Django Reinhardt festival at Birdland once again illustrated the fresh, coursing legacy of the legendary Belgian-born Gypsy guitarist, who died in 1953. “Swing Gitano,” inspired by a ...
Marks of Reinhardt's legacy are numerous. The Modern Jazz Quartet's John Lewis composed an elegy at once limpid and resilient, "Django," to mark his passing in 1953 and it's been rendered superbly by ...
Salva Rubio and Efa, trans. from the French by Matt Madden. NBM, $19.99 (88p) ISBN 978-1-68112-287-8 The brilliant jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) is given a high-drama origin story in ...
One of the world’s leading proponents of the music of Gypsy jazz innovator Django Reinhardt, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday Saturday, guitarist John Jorgenson offered illuminating ...
Reinhardt, whose virtuosic guitar playing defied losing the use of two fingers in a fire, died prematurely, at 43, in 1953, while Grappelli lived to almost 90. Through recordings and direct lineage, ...
NEW YORK - 1st JANUARY: Photo of Django REINHARDT (1910-1953) playing his guitar backstage in New York in 1946. (Photo by William Gottlieb/Redferns) Its concerts—at Rose Theater in New York on ...
Django Fest, Saturday, Jan. 19 & Sunday, Jan. 20, $10–$25, various times, Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro; www.catscradle.com Few musicians evoke such a cult of personality around their body of work ...
In the months leading up to his death, Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt lamented that he might be overlooked by history. Indeed, by the time a heart attack took Reinhardt’s life at the age of 43 in ...
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