Instead, he reinvented the jazz guitar and became a legend. Due to the massive popularity which he earned over the course of his career, every year Django festivals are held across the US and Europe. He was too far ahead of his time. [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). "[8], Feeling unappreciated by critics and not accepted by French authorities as the legal heir of Django, Lousson retired from playing in 1980. Jazz Manouche and Gypsy Jazz. Allegedly, one night Reinhardt was given, on stage, an untuned guitar to play with and the great musician fumbled for five whole minutes to tune it himself. Though his virtuosity is stupefying, it is no less so than his creative invention. [11]:138 He had been promised jobs in California, but they failed to develop. 37-42. There, he had the chance to perform at many of the country's prime venues including Carnegie Hall, performing alongside notable musicians and composers such as Maury Deutsch. On May 16th 1953 Django suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and died, leaving behind his wife Sophie and son Babik. Reinhardt was married by the time he was 17, and while living in a wagon with his wife, their home on wheels caught fire and Reinhardt's hands were badly burned . 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. Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington. The caravan which Reinhardt shared with his wife caught fire one night . Discover Very Best of Django Reinhardt [Greatest Hits] by Django Reinhardt released in 2007. 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. [12], He received little formal education and acquired the rudiments of literacy only in adult life. Django Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a pioneering virtuoso Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953), known by his stage name Django Reinhardt ( French: [do jnat] or [do ent] ), was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. The Modern Jazz Quartet titled one of their albums Django in honor of him. Reinhardt refused the surgery and was eventually able to walk with the aid of a cane. This marriage also produced one son. His music earned him a lot of popularity and even gained the young man worldwide attention. [11]:160 After the war, Reinhardt rejoined Grappelli in the UK. I particularly don't know the ending. The film showed the influence of Reinhardts music in various countries worldwide. (Organ continues to play), Dregni, Michael. [6], Using a Selmer guitar in the mid-1930s, his style took on new volume and expressiveness. Even more, I studied his gentleness. To scrape together a little money, Bella had been making artificial flowers out of paper and highly flammable celluloid. 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. In 1953, he collaborated with the famed jazz musician Dizzie Gillespie and created a few records. Intgrale Django Reinhardt, volumes 120 (40 CDs), released by the French company Frmeaux from 2002 to 2005, tried to include every known track on which he played.[77]. With violinist Stphane Grappelli,[1] Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. Mother of Jean-Jaques Babik Reinhardt. [49] Reinhardt's music was re-recorded for the film by the Dutch jazz band Rosenberg Trio with lead guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg. It's my clarinetist in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Gerard Leveque. It took a full day for a doctor to arrive and Django was declared dead on arrival at the hospital in Fontainebleau. Born: 23 January 1910, Liberchies, Belgium. The album contains the song "Django and Jimmie" which is a tribute to musicians Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers.[56]. Django Reinhardt recorded for the first time in 1928. A: And in what surroundings do you isolate yourself in order to write it's not a question of surroundings. Reinhardt died suddenly of a stroke on 16 May 1953. [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. [1] Henri/Lousson learned to play guitar from his relatives; he is pictured playing with Django and others in a photograph dating from the mid 1940s[2] and played rhythm guitar with Django's "Nouveau Quintette" on a tour of Belgium in November-December 1948, of which an official release exists. The hour-long film was directed and written by Jamie Kastner, who traveled throughout the world to show the influence of Django's music in various countries. On 16 May 1953, while walking from the Gare de FontainebleauAvon Station after playing in a Paris club, he collapsed outside his house from a brain hemorrhage. Unlike the estimated 600,000 Romani people who were interned and killed in the Porajmos, the Romani Holocaust, Reinhardt survived the war. Jean Reinhardt, zis Django (n. 23 ianuarie 1910, Liberchies, Belgia; d. 16 mai 1953 Fontainebleau) a fost un chitarist francez de jazz, compozitor i ef de formaie de origine rom. Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was the first famous European jazz musician. 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]. At least eight compilations have also been released. Although Django was twenty years older than the rest of the band, he was completely in command of the modern style. Though they survived, he and his wife both suffered severe burns. [39] Because of his physical disability, he played mainly using his index and middle fingers, and invented a distinctive style of jazz guitar. Enjoy. Paris, 1945. I am very loved by them, and I thank them by offering to them this mass. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Nuotteja lukematon Reinhardt . [22], In 1938, Reinhardt's quintet played to thousands at an all-star show held in London's Kilburn State auditorium. After . 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. [6] At Samois in 1978 he is pictured using a Gibson ES-175 hollow bodied jazz guitar belonging to Django's brother Joseph. Hitler and Joseph Goebbels viewed jazz as un-German counterculture. Django's compositions were sometimes jaunty, sometimes sad. He was later married to Sophie Ziegler from 1943 till his death in 1953. Despite his pride in touring with Ellington (one of two letters to Grappelli relates his excitement), he was not fully integrated into the band. Soon thereafter, the couple split up. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/django-reinhardt-8101.php. He followed the Romani lifestyle and was relatively little recorded. "[64], Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin: "Django Reinhardt was fantastic. Many guitar players and other musicians have expressed admiration for Reinhardt or have cited him as a major influence. He was a Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist, who was known for professionally collaborating with Stephane Grappelli, a jazz violinist. Reinhardt was a Roma jazz musician. "[42] David Grisman adds, "As far as I'm concerned, no one since has come anywhere close to Django Reinhardt as an improviser or technician. stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. The actor had three different marriages throughout his life. Django's Departure on the 16th May 1953 Django made his last commercial recording on April 8, 1953, with a progressive group consisting of Vibes ("Fats" Lallemand), Piano (Martial Solal), Bass (Pierre Michelot), and Drums (Pierre Lemarchand). I chose his style because it spoke to me. It was this new method centered around his deformed hand that in part contributed to Django's unique style full of the wildly choreographed arpeggios that he is famous for now. Once the war ended, he spent some time touring the US. [39], For about a decade after Reinhardt's death, interest in his musical style was minimal. desanyja, La Bella Laurence egy mnus-szinti komikusokbl s zenszekbl ll vndor trsulatnak volt a tagja. This marriage also produced one son. With the addition of amplification, his playing became more linear and "horn like", with the greater facility of the amplified instrument for longer sustain and to be heard in quiet passages, and in general less reliance on his gypsy "bag of tricks" as developed for his acoustic guitar style (also, in some of his late recordings, with a very different supporting group context from his "classic", pre-war Quintette sound). In 1943, Django married Sophie Ziegler in Salbris, with whom he had a son, Babik Reinhardt, who went on to become a respected guitarist in his own right. [24] During the war, Romani were systematically killed in concentration camps. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. At the end of the tour, Reinhardt played two nights at Carnegie Hall in New York City; he received a great ovation and took six curtain calls on the first night. [50][51], The documentary film, Djangomania! [2]:157 Official policy towards jazz was much less strict in occupied France, according to author Andy Fry, with jazz music frequently played on both Radio France, the official station of Vichy France, and Radio Paris, which was controlled by the Germans. [19]:93 The single sold over 100,000 copies. This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. DR: No, no, no, don't think that. In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman. sit nyskabende og karakteristiske spil. Django Reinhardt 1910- 1953 Jazz Guitarist. However, they parted shortly after the accident. Jean "Django" Reinhardt[1][2] (French: [do jnat] or [do ent]; 23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgium-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity. 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. Reinhardt was born on 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont--Celles, Belgium,[7] into a Belgian family[3] of Manouche Romani descent. Probably the thing about this music that makes it always challenging and exciting to play is that Django raised the bar so high, that it is like chasing genius to get close to his level of playing.[37]. Django: the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend . 2008. By his early teens, he had started playing in clubs across Paris. Dallas Baumgartner, a great-grandson by Lousson, is a guitarist who travels with the Romani and keeps a low public profile. In 1943 the tide of war turned against the Germans, with a considerable darkening of the situation in Paris. On the 16th of May, 1953, Django Reinhardt suffered a fatal stroke while walking home from a performance at a Paris club. [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. Author William Kotzwinkle's 1989 collection, The Hot Jazz Trio stars Reinhardt in a surrealistic fantasy also featuring. 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. He also attended a reception for Goodman, who, after the war ended, had asked Reinhardt to join him in the U.S. Goodman repeated his invitation and, out of politeness, Reinhardt accepted. May 16, 1953 - Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt was born on January 23, 1910 in Liberchies, Pont--Celles, Belgium, into a French family of Manouche Romani descent. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. [39] American country music artists Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard named their sixth and final collaborative studio album "Django and Jimmie". 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. The Romani people were a large group of gipsies who suffered a lifetime of persecution. Musician. Joseph's son Markus Reinhardt is a violinist in the Romani style. 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. In addition, to help support the family, Django earned money by fixing musical instruments and weaving baskets. So Django Reinhardt was born in Belgium in 1910 but moved to France. 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. 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. The Allman Brothers Band song Jessica was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Reinhardt (he wanted to write a song that could be played using only two fingers). Romani men were required to wear a brown Gypsy ID triangle sewn on their chest,[2]:168 similar to the pink triangle that homosexuals wore, and much like the yellow Star of David that Jews had to subsequently wear. Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, cigny nevn Django, 1910. janur 23 -n szletett egy lakkocsiban Liberchies vrosban, Belgiumban. 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". Within his rapid melodic runs he frequently incorporated arpeggios, which could be played using two notes per string (played with his two "good" fingers, being his index and middle fingers) while shifting up or down the fingerboard, as opposed to the more conventional "box" approach of moving across strings within a single fretboard position (location). Reinhardt developed a reputation among his band, fans, and managers as extremely unreliable. He passed away suddenly on 16th May 1953 due to a massive stroke. The movie covers Django's escape from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943 and the fact that even under "constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against his family", he continued composing and performing. On the night of November 2, 1928, Reinhardt was in his caravan home with his wife when paper flowers she had been making caught on fire, quickly engulfing the small space in flames. (He often used a Selmer fitted with an electric pickup, despite his initial hesitation about the instrument.) His young wife, Florine "Bella" Mayer, made fake flowers from celluloid and paper and their caravan was filled with highly flammable materials. In 2005, Django Reinhardt ended on the sixty-sixth place in the election of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and on the seventy-sixth place in the Walloon version of the same competition Le plus grand belge. During this time, Django produced numerous recordings with the quintet in addition to forming other side projects with more conventional instrumentations. Despite Reinhardt's great pride in touring with Ellington, he was never properly integrated into the band, playing only a few tunes at the end of each show with no special arrangements written especially for him. Django Reinhardt. Andrew Latimer, of the band Camel, has stated that he was influenced by Reinhardt. 1951 Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club Quintet, 1954 The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt, 1980 Routes to Django Reinhardt - Bireli Lagrene, 2002 Djangology (remastered) (recorded in 1948, discovered, remastered and released by Bluebird Records), 2003 Jazz in Paris: Nuits de Saint-Germain des-Prs. A French film named Django was released in 2017. By the early 1940s, Django Reinhardt was considered by many to be Paris' greatest star. Well, it could be because he follows his musical taste and not his fingers. Those who knew Django during his lifetime admit that he was an eccentric musician at best and a temperamental nightmare to work with at his worst . was released in 2005. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents.[2][3]. At 18, Django married Bella, a girl from his gypsy camp. He continued to play in Paris jazz clubs and began playing electric guitar. The names "Gagoug" and "Choti" were reportedly conferred by Django's widow Naguine on request from Matelo, who had learned the tunes without names. [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 1951, he retired to Samois sur Seine, France, near Fontainebleau. Django Reinhardt, original name Jean Reinhardt, (born January 23, 1910, Liberchies, Belgiumdied May 16, 1953, Fontainebleau, France), guitarist who is generally considered one of the few European jazz musicians of true originality. The concept of "lead guitar" (Django) and backing "rhythm guitar" (Joseph Reinhardt/Roger Chaput or Pierre Ferret) was born with this band. 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. Grappelli remained in the United Kingdom for the duration of the war. Django later picked up several more instruments, the banjo, guitar, and a hybrid of the two, called a guitjo, and profited from his rising talent at county fairs and on the streets of nearby towns. His hugely innovative technique included, on a grand scale, such unheard of devices as melodies played in octaves, tremolo chords with shifting notes that sounded like whole horn sections, a complete array of natural and artificial harmonics, highly charged dissonances, super-fast chromatic runs from the open bass strings to the highest notes on the 1st string, an unbelievably flexible and driving right-hand, two and three octave arpeggios, advanced and unconventional chords and a use of the flattened fifth that predated be-bop by a decade. Jean "Django" Reinhardt was a promising young musician when a crippling injury seemed to end his chance of having a music career. Tears by Django Reinhardt | Practicing guitar improvisation for the minor part. (The swinging sound of Venuti's jazz violin and Eddie Lang's virtuoso guitar-playing anticipated the more famous sound of Reinhardt and Grappelli's later ensemble.) He was something else. He only played when the spirit moved him, and perhaps behaved similarly in many other facets of his life, as well. He is seen at the start and end of the 1959 French film Les Pittuiti's performing "Les Deux Guitares" with Eugne Ves,[5] and also appears briefly in a 1978 Sten Bramsen documentary Django made for Danish television. It was late on the night of November 2, 1928. Both his sons, Lousson and Babik, also followed in his footsteps and became jazz guitarists. By the mid-1930s, he had also started playing with the violinist Stphane Grappelli, and with her, he formed the Quintet of the Hot Club. 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. 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. Minor Blues - Django Reinhardt | Gypsy Guitar Tab - YouTube 0:00 / 1:51 Minor Blues - Django Reinhardt | Gypsy Guitar Tab From Music 31.6K subscribers Subscribe 14K views 6 months ago. [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. It became the most accomplished and innovative European jazz group of the period. Jean Django Reinhardt was born on 23rd January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-a-Celles, Belgium. A: And did you notate the music? This technique permits him to play with an inconceivable velocity and makes his instrument completely versatile. When he was 18, the wooden wagon he shared with his wife caught fire. One night, Django came home and accidentally knocked over a candle on his way to bed. Reinhardt expanded his musical horizons during this period. These performances drew large audiences. Interview: Reinhardt's talents and reputation as a musician in the city rose steadily, until, at the age of 18, Django knocked over a candle on his way to bed after returning home late one night after a performance. However, he was once again stopped by the Swiss guards at the border. This page was last edited on 18 August 2020, at 17:10. Django: Directed by Etienne Comar. In coincidence with the 110th anniversary in 2020 of Django's birth, a graphic novel depicting his youth years was published under the title Django Main de Feu, by writer Salva Rubio and artist Efa through Belgian publisher Dupuis. Since he did not read music, Reinhardt worked with an assistant to notate what he was improvising. [7] His father, Jean Eugene Weiss, domiciled in Paris with his wife, went by Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, his wife's surname, to avoid French military conscription. [18], Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput also played on guitar, and Louis Vola was on bass. Sweet and Lowdown: Directed by Woody Allen. Django Reinhardt first married a girl named Florine Mayer when he was seventeen. 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. 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. For you certainly cannot do it after a jazz concert? The Django web framework, a Python web framework, was named after Reinhardt. When Reinhardt was 18 years old he was badly burned in a fire. [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. DR: All the gypsies in the entire world have made use of foreign masses for many centuries. Members of the quintet were hesitant to return to France where the Nazis were at work rounding up gypsies. [13]:9 On these recordings, made in 1928, Reinhardt plays the "banjo" (actually the banjo-guitar) accompanying the accordionists Maurice Alexander, Jean Vaissade and Victor Marceau, and the singer Maurice Chaumel. Garcia was quoted in June 1985 in Frets Magazine: His technique is awesome! 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