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Django Reinhardt (Paperback, Revised)
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Django Reinhardt (Paperback, Revised)
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Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django
Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane
Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to
several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far
afield as Larry Coryell, Leon Redbone, Eddy Lang, and Charlie
Christian.This is the only full-length study of Django ever
published in English, an unforgettable portrait of a wild and
independent figure who never learned to read or write (friends
forged his autographs), exasperated those people who lived by
schedules, gambled away a week's salary in a night, but who played
the guitar like no one before or since. The distinguished French
critic Charles Delaunay, who knows more about Django than anyone
alive, here provides not only the familiar outline of a life- the
childhood travels in gypsy caravans, the fire that left Django with
a crippled hand, the legendary temper and generosity- but he also
collected scores of anecdotes about the sensitivity and musical
gifts that were the basis for Django's appearance as a character in
Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. Who else but Django could
charm his way out of a jail sentence by serenading the police
officer with his guitar?The comprehensive discography at the back
of the book completes Delaunay's picture of this "misrepresented
and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from
the contentions of his age."
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