There are 10 people on the internet that just don't understand hot... and this is hot, and no matter how old it gets... it's still fresh. I just learned this song and had to youtube it to hear it played by a pro. I had no idea Django did it... but man... the mans got smokin' hot fingers.
I sit at school writhing this with a laptop while working on a website on another computer and listening to django in 2011. if he knew how far his music have reached.
You'll always find so called muso's comparing one great musician from a completely unrelated genre to another. Either way, Hendrix, Clapton, Page etc. all had unique sounds that will be remembered forever. Django is part of that group and why bother making unnecessary comparisons when ultimately we've all ended up watching this video because we all know he is the master in his respective field. Mr Reinhardt, I salute you.
Music made via electronic means isn't like playing a musical instrument, it's like composing. Totally different skills, both are equally as important though.
People that dislike this are like people that break bottles on the street. They know it's wrong and idiotic but some self-destructive behavior becomes dominant and they do it for that reason. Then they feel guilty and realize they can never undo it. That is why none of them ever try to justify WHY they clicked on "dislike"
And this was done with only two fingers. Stop complaining about how difficult it is to play your respective instrument and just enjoy having all five fingers
This is a much hotter, faster version than what I have on a 1960s LP called "Django '35-'39". Anybody know where this is available? Was it ever issued on a 78rpm disc?
@vj498 I've got this track on "The Best of Django Reinhardt" on Blue Note. It was released by Capitol Records. It's available to download from Amazon or ITunes for about £7 or £8. If you look at the Suggestions list to the right, the 2nd picture from the top (Django Reinhardt - After you've gone) is the album cover for it. All the best.
Quintette Hot Club de France!!! Whenever the lead guitarist started playing, any guitarist in the crowd proceeded to use his guitar as firewood as soon as he got home from the concert. Django did not only cause warmth in hearts, but also in homes from people burning their guitars. No one could, or can match him. The one and only!!!!!!
A doctor wanted to amputate Django's hand, after a fire burned him very badly. His relatives snuck him out of the hospital. He developed his special way of playing readily, as he was largely self-taught. That's why there's such a purity and uniqueness about him...a big influence on Tommy Iommi (Black Sabbath!) who lost part of two fingers and thought he was finished...not so....
Given the tempo,you'd think that somewhere along the line there would be just that one single note that Django doesn't quite manage to hit right. But no..not a damned thing. The guy just wasn't real.
Il ritmo che tiene Django e l'intero gruppo è fantastico e devastante. Questo è grande jazz. I ragazzi giovani dovrebbero ascoltare più spesso e meglio questi grandi musicisti. Oggi purtroppo , o corrono sul tempo , oppure se sono perfetti diventano meccanici e si perde la fluidità nel fraseggio. VIVA Django
Il ritmo che tiene Django e l'intero gruppo è fantastico e devastante. Questo è grande jazz. I ragazzi giovani dovrebbero ascoltare più spesso e meglio questi grandi musicisti. Oggi purtroppo , o corrono sul tempo , oppure se sono perfetti diventano meccanici e si perde la fluidità nel fraseggio. VIVA DJANGO e company !!!!
No one could fly by the seat of their pants like Django. You can hear every phrase is unplanned and inspired by the moment, and yet somehow still perfect.
what always amazes me about djangos music and the way he plays, is that he always seem to get a melody out of that guitar of his. like if he was singing (i know its kind of DUH, but EXTREMELY few people actually can manage that for real)
guitarists today that take inspiration from django dont even come close to the innovation he had. they just play as fast as they can, sticking to whatever notes that should be played, while django tries to make a melody out of it.
If the tool is too sophisticated to apply it in an appropriate way, then it is to say: It IS the tool, which is the problem at all. Ones Choice of a music-tool can also proof my disagree in yours same... If you look for the mainproblem (which isnt the tool - here I agree with your statement) of today music, you could cast any suspition towards the non-musical-aspects of those crappy attempts to make good music. I prefer absence of any percussion whence cpu ought to do the trick...
Do you play guitar? I like skillfull work whatsoever, what I dont like is a musician, who depends on metronome or computerized beats. A musician who cant work without electricity is i.m.o a shame. What I also like is a man who tells me what he thinks, so I like you though...
@11Kralle No I tried guitar. Wasn't my thing. Can't coordinate both hands at once (also why I can't play piano too well either). I am a trumpet player. I also produce music using computers. A lot of people think making music on computers is easy and it is. But not when you are doing it to a high standard. It does sound like a little bit of technophobia on your part maybe.
Did you ever `tried´ the real drumset? As trumpet player you must be holding a pencil between your lips right now, dont you? I have heard from a classical trained oboist, that learning the trumpet takes a very short time, but holding ones level would be a lifes task. Im not having a technophobia, I did multitracking and used music-score-software as well, but I would never use a drum computer if I could have a good human drummer at hand. Thats my point: do not kill drummers!!! :)
I have been listening to `Edgar the Boss´ on your channel and I can understand you better now. Nevertheless that beat/ slack/ push your music offers is i.m.o. a typical sign of the 1980s. Play that song with a skiffle-band on acoustic equipment and you have got a real timetravel to the 1880s. Besides that misunderstandable timetraveling-effect is what i am searchin in real music. I dont want go from 2010 to 2001 - I like the big leaps in to the past. Hence: no computerdrumming...
Well actually that song is just a rough mix so I could show my friends. The electric drums will eventually be replaced once I get into the studio. I agree with you it will sound better. However some songs are made possible only by computers. Artists like Aphex Twin could never exist without sequencing and sampling.
I have to add one thing: If you understood my comments saying drumcomputer(a.s.o.) were no tools for real music or music-art, than you had got me wrong. I wanted to say: the upcoming of electronic tools and devices to a greater market lowered the level of craftmansship in playing with conventional music-instruments. The best example is the drumkit, which is nearly banned from pop-recordings - even so called `rock´-music. At least its still the artist, who gives his art to us.
I recently saw a documentary about Les Paul. When he met Django in Chicago, Les was already a well established guitar player, fast, clean, GOOD. However, he said Django changed his world and showed him what REAL guitar playing was.
@ironsausage66 Argh, please Jimi Hendrix is a very good guitarist but in a very different genre. I don't even understand why you compare Jimi and Django...
@hannanathan564 haha lol win man. i'm just starting to get into Django this is maybe my 4th song. I've been a longtime Hendrix fan though. This stuff is a really nice contrast to what i'm used to. :)
@Africamille very true, but can you imagine those two hanging out for a couple weeks just having fun playing with and for each other? Now that could be fun.
@MrBowsmith That explanation makes a lot more sense to me than him being gay. I have never seen any shred of documentation about being gay. He was married and did produce at least one child, a boy, Babik who also played guitar. maybe I'm naive but i just don't think his music would have the same fire and passion if he was gay. it sounds very macho to me. Even after nearly 50 years of playing guitar I still hope to have chops like his someday.
@MrBowsmith About 15 years ago I was unable to take advantage of the opportunity to attend a free concert by Stephane Grapelli at the local branch of the city library near where I live. What a regretable loss that was! He died oniy months later. The reviews said he had as much fire and and passion as in his youth. Yes, Minor Swing. One of my first attempts at Gypsy music. I discovered that Django makes much use of diminished arpeggios. Only I don't even come close to his phrasing!
@mnestrt I've got a simplified version up and running with the band, bit-by-bit we are adding a little more sophistication as we get more familiar with the piece. But the Hot Club lads are a tough act to follow.
@MrBowsmith perhaps you could pursuade a friend to record your next gig for upload to YouTube. that would be exciting. It's always good to see what other musicians are doing.
@mnestrt Hi, a brief glimpse of the band in action is certainly on the cards. We'll see what can be done in the near future. I should perhaps add, that a jazz band we are not, our tastes cover a huge range of music, trad folk to the violent femmes and back again with all stops in between, am playing about with a wah-wha on the fiddle just now, don't know if it's a great idea, but it's fun. Thanks for the interest, I'll keep ya posted.
@mnestrt While it's historically unlikely, or at least unsubstantiated, that Django was gay, I feel it necessary to address your comments about the masculinity of his music. Jason Ricci is one of the best harmonica players in the world today. His testosterone and adrenaline driven music demonstrates a Django-like level of virtuosity and passion like you just described. He happens to be gay. Don't fall into the trap of thinking gay = soft. If the music is good, what else matters?
@OmniphonProductions you are absolutly right and i should know better. And I just checked out Jason Ricci. Awesome! I can think of several artists whose sexuality is irrelevant but who have moved me, Little Richard, Melissa Etheridge, Freddie Mercury, Joan Jett, Suzy Quattro, Billy Strayhorn. Duke Ellington once said, "if it sounds good, it is good!". my comment was really a knee jerk reaction to another viewer (not the one I resonded to). Sexuality is irrelavant in art, why bring it up?
@mnestrt I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Great list, by the way, great artists all. Glad I could introduce you to another one. Spread the word.
Avant Paris décollage imminent : c'est la Marseillaise, Rougé de Lisle, coeur serré Paris décollage imminent./ Ok l'avion vient de quitter avec panache la piste : alors c'est DJANGO qui chante pour tous les passagers ( un petit romano de MERDE dixit saint cloud alors là c'est trop triste / EUh pas vraiment nuages nuages jusqu'à New York / et vive le sport français, allez les bleus. In memoriam Marcel Cerdan !
I had always heard it was an old american tune, circa 1800, and that a "limehouse" means an outhouse. You should check out Jason Skinner's version on banjo on youtube.
My favorite version! Listen to Django while Stephan is playing the theme. Emphasizing the baseline at 0:09, little accents filling tiny voids at 0:14 and at 0:27at the beginning of Stephan's solo. Eager to start his solo at 0:57 using different Django techniques including the many accent changes as if challenging to the rhythm section that is spot on like a metronome. Even dissonant chords. And at 2:16 Stephan takes it to the finale at 2:37. And than... than I push the replay button. Heaven!
Most every great guitarist will cite Django as an influence. He really was one of a kind and way ahead of his time. Check out the Rosenberg Trio's Rendition of the Reinhardt composition, "Rhythm Futur"
It sounds avant garde even today -- and it was written 70 years ago!
@Bnosrettaptrebor - Haha, well that should keep you busy in your Autumn years - I hope I'm invited to your 85th birthday "debut concert" :) Good luck - and keep on pickin' and strummin' !
i love djangos playing,i think he changed swing and jazz guitar so much ! it just puzzles me how he developed such a crazy style!
oisinboydisrandy 2 weeks ago
Littlebig Planet 2 brought me here.
innerROBLOXmadness 1 month ago
my last name is chaput, my family comes from france so i might be related to the guitarist roger chaput!
xup1dill44 1 month ago
Vive Django!
clarinettistwalt 1 month ago 2
The master. Unmatched. Just mind-blowing virtuosity and sheer musicality. What a delight to listen to Django.
LowFlyingTortilla 1 month ago 3
There are 10 people on the internet that just don't understand hot... and this is hot, and no matter how old it gets... it's still fresh. I just learned this song and had to youtube it to hear it played by a pro. I had no idea Django did it... but man... the mans got smokin' hot fingers.
JRindee 1 month ago 5
@JRindee If that last bit was a joke it was either very funny or in extremely poor taste. I'm not sure which.
donepearce 1 month ago
Always with a cigarette..
Jplent1 1 month ago
Seriously how does he do that with only 2 fingers? HOW?!
grevejp44 2 months ago
I sit at school writhing this with a laptop while working on a website on another computer and listening to django in 2011. if he knew how far his music have reached.
macmammut 2 months ago
You'll always find so called muso's comparing one great musician from a completely unrelated genre to another. Either way, Hendrix, Clapton, Page etc. all had unique sounds that will be remembered forever. Django is part of that group and why bother making unnecessary comparisons when ultimately we've all ended up watching this video because we all know he is the master in his respective field. Mr Reinhardt, I salute you.
cassettetaperemix 2 months ago
i never much liked acoustic till this guy
flyinv1967 4 months ago 2
@flyinv1967
I can't believe that you don't like Ry Cooder on steam guitar :(
johnpetermalcolm 4 months ago
great music :)
RainbowBoi95 5 months ago 2
Music made via electronic means isn't like playing a musical instrument, it's like composing. Totally different skills, both are equally as important though.
tiotyiotuior68r67i 5 months ago
i also love the fashion out of these days...
ClariDiez 6 months ago 3
I love him
mrswingfan007 6 months ago
Impossible, but some how some way he manages to hit every note so fast and with only two fingers.
THE1PAINOF1THE1GAME 6 months ago
this chap seems to have a command of his instrument
49mrjd 7 months ago
Adrenalina!!!
andrezemuner 7 months ago
such a good track!
MasacruRo 7 months ago
People that dislike this are like people that break bottles on the street. They know it's wrong and idiotic but some self-destructive behavior becomes dominant and they do it for that reason. Then they feel guilty and realize they can never undo it. That is why none of them ever try to justify WHY they clicked on "dislike"
tomtowle 7 months ago 2
And this was done with only two fingers. Stop complaining about how difficult it is to play your respective instrument and just enjoy having all five fingers
Quack4Zac 7 months ago
they should do a song n add a cello solo:O
amrtnz77 7 months ago in playlist (:jazz
Django is still better than (place any guitar player's name here)
uneedtherapy42 7 months ago
This is a much hotter, faster version than what I have on a 1960s LP called "Django '35-'39". Anybody know where this is available? Was it ever issued on a 78rpm disc?
vj498 7 months ago
@vj498 I've got this track on "The Best of Django Reinhardt" on Blue Note. It was released by Capitol Records. It's available to download from Amazon or ITunes for about £7 or £8. If you look at the Suggestions list to the right, the 2nd picture from the top (Django Reinhardt - After you've gone) is the album cover for it. All the best.
abdc246 6 months ago
@abdc246 Thank you so much!!!
vj498 6 months ago
@vj498 You're welcome :)
abdc246 6 months ago
I just typed this comment with only 2 fingers!
RetroGamerOnline 7 months ago 8
Un-be-FRIG-a-LIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!! What an ASTOUNDING artist...consummate to the nth degree of superlatives! I am out of breath after that!!!!!!!
cubanbach 7 months ago 2
This is one of my favorite Django tracks.
atomicV1sion 8 months ago 2
He is my dads hero.
MrZombieslayer49 8 months ago
MINE TOO !!!!!!!!
paperman990 8 months ago
RIP Django Reinhardt
coalazombie 8 months ago 2
Cannonball Adderley and Coltrane did a killer version of this song in 1959.
packers56789 8 months ago
Django led me to the blues which is my favorite type of music. JIP=Jam In Peace
SuperBeibersucks 8 months ago
THEY ARE MY HEROES. when i grow up i'm going to play my violin like stephane grappelli
lmfviolet78 8 months ago
classic and beautiful
TheD0RKNIGHT 9 months ago
now this is good music
MrAeroman12 9 months ago
everytime i listen to django he blows me away, such an ability to pull off melodies even at the highest peaking moment of the improvisation
HiImJerry8 9 months ago
Le "Hot Jazz" !!!!!!!!
BAwarrior2009 9 months ago
this is not fair i cry listening. why does life suck sooo much more now. stupid computers ruin life
evvimada 9 months ago 2
Quintette Hot Club de France!!! Whenever the lead guitarist started playing, any guitarist in the crowd proceeded to use his guitar as firewood as soon as he got home from the concert. Django did not only cause warmth in hearts, but also in homes from people burning their guitars. No one could, or can match him. The one and only!!!!!!
AmundLauritzen 9 months ago 4
A doctor wanted to amputate Django's hand, after a fire burned him very badly. His relatives snuck him out of the hospital. He developed his special way of playing readily, as he was largely self-taught. That's why there's such a purity and uniqueness about him...a big influence on Tommy Iommi (Black Sabbath!) who lost part of two fingers and thought he was finished...not so....
rocktenniscat 10 months ago
What a treat!
fngrpkn06 10 months ago
FUCK i born to late!
Omnitatsu 11 months ago 18
@Omnitatsu yeah deffinately :(
elohel1991 10 months ago
@Omnitatsu NEvER BORN TO LATE TO REFUSE TO BE SPOONFED SHIT!
poolpig 10 months ago
@Omnitatsu or did the music come to early?
grevejp44 2 months ago
I love this. Doesn't it just make you smile?
Scarlett4Zanzibar 11 months ago 3
good music!!
MrMuschiato 11 months ago
@rof1c0pt3r
completely wrong.
He already played guitar before the fire.
TheGoldenslinky 11 months ago
Hats off!
yaeli1967 11 months ago
Now this is real music!!!
ConorsGuitar 11 months ago
dear god, why can't we have music like this anymore????
shorti426 11 months ago 2
@shorti426 You just have to look for it.
TheAcidHairball 11 months ago
little big planet 2!
foxmcloud58 11 months ago
anyone know when this was recorded? this is the most popular version of limehouse but i have no sheet music for it.
dagharr2 1 year ago
@dagharr2 Probably the 1937 recording for CBS. See ://djangopedia
zeQHCF 10 months ago
he does with 3 fingers what i cant do with 5 T_T
rajajonconcon 1 year ago 2
Given the tempo,you'd think that somewhere along the line there would be just that one single note that Django doesn't quite manage to hit right. But no..not a damned thing. The guy just wasn't real.
crankbv1 1 year ago 4
Il ritmo che tiene Django e l'intero gruppo è fantastico e devastante. Questo è grande jazz. I ragazzi giovani dovrebbero ascoltare più spesso e meglio questi grandi musicisti. Oggi purtroppo , o corrono sul tempo , oppure se sono perfetti diventano meccanici e si perde la fluidità nel fraseggio. VIVA Django
gabri3l367 1 year ago
Il ritmo che tiene Django e l'intero gruppo è fantastico e devastante. Questo è grande jazz. I ragazzi giovani dovrebbero ascoltare più spesso e meglio questi grandi musicisti. Oggi purtroppo , o corrono sul tempo , oppure se sono perfetti diventano meccanici e si perde la fluidità nel fraseggio. VIVA DJANGO e company !!!!
gabri3l367 1 year ago
No one could fly by the seat of their pants like Django. You can hear every phrase is unplanned and inspired by the moment, and yet somehow still perfect.
robbourassaguitarist 1 year ago 3
what always amazes me about djangos music and the way he plays, is that he always seem to get a melody out of that guitar of his. like if he was singing (i know its kind of DUH, but EXTREMELY few people actually can manage that for real)
guitarists today that take inspiration from django dont even come close to the innovation he had. they just play as fast as they can, sticking to whatever notes that should be played, while django tries to make a melody out of it.
jespero93 1 year ago 3
Now that's MUSIC!!
Glozgly 1 year ago 4
im the 222.222 visitor of this fuckin great piece of music fuck im pissed
verylastbreath 1 year ago
Those were the days - pure rhythm before the drumcomputer fucked it all up!!!
11Kralle 1 year ago 73
@11Kralle :( I disagree. It's not the tool that's the problem. This is good music though.
TSyoutubin 8 months ago
@TSyoutubin
If the tool is too sophisticated to apply it in an appropriate way, then it is to say: It IS the tool, which is the problem at all. Ones Choice of a music-tool can also proof my disagree in yours same... If you look for the mainproblem (which isnt the tool - here I agree with your statement) of today music, you could cast any suspition towards the non-musical-aspects of those crappy attempts to make good music. I prefer absence of any percussion whence cpu ought to do the trick...
11Kralle 8 months ago
@11Kralle I dont know what kind of guitar music that could be
FearlessSpinner 6 months ago
@FearlessSpinner
referring to what?
11Kralle 6 months ago
@11Kralle
I like drum machines and I like this. Both take skill despite what you may think.
DearBossMusic 6 months ago
@DearBossMusic
Do you play guitar? I like skillfull work whatsoever, what I dont like is a musician, who depends on metronome or computerized beats. A musician who cant work without electricity is i.m.o a shame. What I also like is a man who tells me what he thinks, so I like you though...
11Kralle 6 months ago
@11Kralle No I tried guitar. Wasn't my thing. Can't coordinate both hands at once (also why I can't play piano too well either). I am a trumpet player. I also produce music using computers. A lot of people think making music on computers is easy and it is. But not when you are doing it to a high standard. It does sound like a little bit of technophobia on your part maybe.
DearBossMusic 6 months ago
@DearBossMusic
Did you ever `tried´ the real drumset? As trumpet player you must be holding a pencil between your lips right now, dont you? I have heard from a classical trained oboist, that learning the trumpet takes a very short time, but holding ones level would be a lifes task. Im not having a technophobia, I did multitracking and used music-score-software as well, but I would never use a drum computer if I could have a good human drummer at hand. Thats my point: do not kill drummers!!! :)
11Kralle 6 months ago
@DearBossMusic
I have been listening to `Edgar the Boss´ on your channel and I can understand you better now. Nevertheless that beat/ slack/ push your music offers is i.m.o. a typical sign of the 1980s. Play that song with a skiffle-band on acoustic equipment and you have got a real timetravel to the 1880s. Besides that misunderstandable timetraveling-effect is what i am searchin in real music. I dont want go from 2010 to 2001 - I like the big leaps in to the past. Hence: no computerdrumming...
11Kralle 6 months ago
@11Kralle
Well actually that song is just a rough mix so I could show my friends. The electric drums will eventually be replaced once I get into the studio. I agree with you it will sound better. However some songs are made possible only by computers. Artists like Aphex Twin could never exist without sequencing and sampling.
DearBossMusic 6 months ago
@DearBossMusic
I have to add one thing: If you understood my comments saying drumcomputer(a.s.o.) were no tools for real music or music-art, than you had got me wrong. I wanted to say: the upcoming of electronic tools and devices to a greater market lowered the level of craftmansship in playing with conventional music-instruments. The best example is the drumkit, which is nearly banned from pop-recordings - even so called `rock´-music. At least its still the artist, who gives his art to us.
11Kralle 6 months ago 3
tout simplement unique!!!
"LA " voie (voix ?) de la guitare manouche!!!
theJIM88800 1 year ago
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crankbv1 1 year ago 2
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crankbv1 1 year ago
awesome
lonewolfshogun 1 year ago
Rhytmn`jazz =)
elvisaron1 1 year ago
I recently saw a documentary about Les Paul. When he met Django in Chicago, Les was already a well established guitar player, fast, clean, GOOD. However, he said Django changed his world and showed him what REAL guitar playing was.
OmniphonProductions 1 year ago
Muchas gracias x subir estos momentos son inolvidables, quedan guardados en el infinito¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
estelaullon 1 year ago
I heard Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar because he couldn't play like Django.
ironsausage66 1 year ago 110
@ironsausage66 i did the same
tevredenman 5 months ago
@ironsausage66 Argh, please Jimi Hendrix is a very good guitarist but in a very different genre. I don't even understand why you compare Jimi and Django...
Africamille 4 months ago 35
@Africamille Band of Gypsy's
hannanathan564 4 months ago
@hannanathan564 haha lol win man. i'm just starting to get into Django this is maybe my 4th song. I've been a longtime Hendrix fan though. This stuff is a really nice contrast to what i'm used to. :)
redandwhite12 4 months ago
@Africamille
He wasn't comparing, it's a joke.
snakeweirdo 3 months ago
@Africamille No but if time and space had ever aligned in such a way that they were able to play together...
Stratplayer05 3 months ago 2
@Africamille They're both long dead too, which makes it even more ridiculous :)
mikexlong 2 months ago
@mikexlong but their music will always remain..that's the special part
GDuBMuSiCk 2 months ago
@GDuBMuSiCk amen to that.
mikexlong 2 months ago
@Africamille very true, but can you imagine those two hanging out for a couple weeks just having fun playing with and for each other? Now that could be fun.
GrigoriZhukov 1 month ago
@GrigoriZhukov Oh yeah what a great musical melting pot it could be... This is why we can use turn tables, right ?
Africamille 1 month ago
@ironsausage66 you can be sure that django couldn't play like Jimi by the way
kuhbanger 4 months ago
@kuhbanger I can be sure that John Coltrane couldn't play the kazoo very well either
ironsausage66 4 months ago
@ironsausage66 I heard emmet ray commited suicide because he couldn't play like django
elpollo09 3 months ago
@elpollo09: emmet ray is a fictional character, he never existed outside woody allen's movie "sweet and lowdown"
Bloodclaatkrabbz 2 months ago
@ironsausage66 haha...cool joke...>;o)
stratitis 3 months ago
was he jewish ? ^^
Arjetube 1 year ago
@Arjetube He was of Romany stock, who's people fell within the scope of the nazi's , "ethnic cleansing" mindset.
MrBowsmith 1 year ago
@MrBowsmith That explanation makes a lot more sense to me than him being gay. I have never seen any shred of documentation about being gay. He was married and did produce at least one child, a boy, Babik who also played guitar. maybe I'm naive but i just don't think his music would have the same fire and passion if he was gay. it sounds very macho to me. Even after nearly 50 years of playing guitar I still hope to have chops like his someday.
mnestrt 1 year ago
@mnestrt Me too! He was certainly good at what he did.I'm working on Grapelli's part in "Minor Swing".
MrBowsmith 1 year ago
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mnestrt 1 year ago
@MrBowsmith About 15 years ago I was unable to take advantage of the opportunity to attend a free concert by Stephane Grapelli at the local branch of the city library near where I live. What a regretable loss that was! He died oniy months later. The reviews said he had as much fire and and passion as in his youth. Yes, Minor Swing. One of my first attempts at Gypsy music. I discovered that Django makes much use of diminished arpeggios. Only I don't even come close to his phrasing!
mnestrt 1 year ago
@mnestrt I've got a simplified version up and running with the band, bit-by-bit we are adding a little more sophistication as we get more familiar with the piece. But the Hot Club lads are a tough act to follow.
MrBowsmith 1 year ago
@MrBowsmith perhaps you could pursuade a friend to record your next gig for upload to YouTube. that would be exciting. It's always good to see what other musicians are doing.
mnestrt 1 year ago
@mnestrt Hi, a brief glimpse of the band in action is certainly on the cards. We'll see what can be done in the near future. I should perhaps add, that a jazz band we are not, our tastes cover a huge range of music, trad folk to the violent femmes and back again with all stops in between, am playing about with a wah-wha on the fiddle just now, don't know if it's a great idea, but it's fun. Thanks for the interest, I'll keep ya posted.
MrBowsmith 1 year ago
@mnestrt While it's historically unlikely, or at least unsubstantiated, that Django was gay, I feel it necessary to address your comments about the masculinity of his music. Jason Ricci is one of the best harmonica players in the world today. His testosterone and adrenaline driven music demonstrates a Django-like level of virtuosity and passion like you just described. He happens to be gay. Don't fall into the trap of thinking gay = soft. If the music is good, what else matters?
OmniphonProductions 1 year ago
@OmniphonProductions you are absolutly right and i should know better. And I just checked out Jason Ricci. Awesome! I can think of several artists whose sexuality is irrelevant but who have moved me, Little Richard, Melissa Etheridge, Freddie Mercury, Joan Jett, Suzy Quattro, Billy Strayhorn. Duke Ellington once said, "if it sounds good, it is good!". my comment was really a knee jerk reaction to another viewer (not the one I resonded to). Sexuality is irrelavant in art, why bring it up?
mnestrt 1 year ago
@mnestrt I think you and I are going to get along just fine. Great list, by the way, great artists all. Glad I could introduce you to another one. Spread the word.
OmniphonProductions 1 year ago
Django shred's the fretboard, but Grappelli also got so down on this one.
TheDirteeSanchez 1 year ago
this song comes out on lbp2
iBallCreature 1 year ago
1:23-1:49...POW!!! RIGHT IN THE KISSER!!!!!!!!!
mmillner81 1 year ago
Great!
7inga7 1 year ago
Wow, THAT's music.
BarbarianAsh 1 year ago
Avant Paris décollage imminent : c'est la Marseillaise, Rougé de Lisle, coeur serré Paris décollage imminent./ Ok l'avion vient de quitter avec panache la piste : alors c'est DJANGO qui chante pour tous les passagers ( un petit romano de MERDE dixit saint cloud alors là c'est trop triste / EUh pas vraiment nuages nuages jusqu'à New York / et vive le sport français, allez les bleus. In memoriam Marcel Cerdan !
MrBibi72000 1 year ago
I don't know what is more insane--his right hand or fret hand work. Simply the best.
Ominus666 1 year ago
I had always heard it was an old american tune, circa 1800, and that a "limehouse" means an outhouse. You should check out Jason Skinner's version on banjo on youtube.
frmertd 1 year ago
Wow! Thanks for the great photos. The song ain't too shabby either.
Man, that cat plays rhythm like a freight train barrelin' down the tracks.
IMHO, he's the greatest guitarist - ever.
lustyrusty 1 year ago
cooking was never so simmering hot as on Limehouse here.
simply picasso!!
Garcia42 1 year ago
lol at that cartoon pic of Django...
rygertheodd 1 year ago
Great Mister Man!!!!!
wa1ufo 1 year ago
ahr mahr gard I played an arrangement of this song in HS jazz band. on trumpet! super super fun.. I miss playing trumpet.. :(
hickokchris 1 year ago
Anyone ever play that video game "Mafia"? The whole game is Djangos music playing in the background. That alone made it the best game I ever played.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago 3
@JamesTKirkCobain Yes. :) yes. yes. What a game. And what a soundtrack.
thedeadsalesman 1 year ago
Apparentley there is is a boke on here with a tutorial on how to play like Django? A large pair of scissors appears at the end??
foureyedfatbelly 1 year ago
Just imagine if the dude had all his fingers working.
hummarstra 1 year ago
this is awesome! so intense! :-D
i can almost see an alternate 1930s reality where the people are all raving on ecstasy and "miaow miaow" dacing like 30s techno freaks lmao!
but seriously this is amazing, django & stephane kick ass!
cheers for posting!
delboy1978uk 1 year ago
I think it's amazing that he make that guitar sound like a violin? Truley awsome!
foureyedfatbelly 1 year ago
I wish was older and had experienced this ensemble live.......my father, bless him has been more fortunate
jutescrim 1 year ago
This guitarist in my opinion was ahead of his time he will never be matched for his playing or his improvising
chester777ful 1 year ago
Ugh if only this song was longer, it's perfect though.
julihuli991 1 year ago
My favorite version! Listen to Django while Stephan is playing the theme. Emphasizing the baseline at 0:09, little accents filling tiny voids at 0:14 and at 0:27at the beginning of Stephan's solo. Eager to start his solo at 0:57 using different Django techniques including the many accent changes as if challenging to the rhythm section that is spot on like a metronome. Even dissonant chords. And at 2:16 Stephan takes it to the finale at 2:37. And than... than I push the replay button. Heaven!
zeQHCF 1 year ago
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zeQHCF 1 year ago
Most every great guitarist will cite Django as an influence. He really was one of a kind and way ahead of his time. Check out the Rosenberg Trio's Rendition of the Reinhardt composition, "Rhythm Futur"
It sounds avant garde even today -- and it was written 70 years ago!
JimmyDeLocke 1 year ago
thanks.after watching this video.i can see where les paul got some of his riffs.reinhardt was bending strings long before the guitar gods of today.
matuschkas 1 year ago
O Limehouse Blues, O Limehouse Blues, O Limehouse Blues!
LIMEHOUSE!!!!!
SwingfromParis 1 year ago 4
This gentleman wasTony Iommi's inspiration
MightySaturn5 1 year ago 2
1:50 to 2:10 è tipo fantascienza per me...
Sk3z 2 years ago
django & stephane vi adoro!
hardasarocker 2 years ago
Whats this I hear? Why it's the LIMEHOUSE BLUES!
hep2jive 2 years ago 2
They say if you want to play like Django, the first 35 years of practice are the hardest ...
collierscourt 2 years ago 226
@collierscourt
good one :D
slightlyunder9000 1 year ago
only if it were a joke...lol
s3k71on8 1 year ago
@collierscourt Hell yeah!
superultramegamighty 1 year ago
@collierscourt I'll be 85 then. LOL
Bnosrettaptrebor 1 year ago
@Bnosrettaptrebor - Haha, well that should keep you busy in your Autumn years - I hope I'm invited to your 85th birthday "debut concert" :) Good luck - and keep on pickin' and strummin' !
collierscourt 1 year ago
@collierscourt I thought it was the burning your ring finger and pinky to be unusable.
I call it a tie.
happyface4444 10 months ago
Gracias Eduardo por publicar los nombres de los que conformaban el grupo de el maestro Django.
TheDiana1806 2 years ago
The gypsy, he is magnificent!--Marshal Foch
BrokenneckYgor 2 years ago
I think someone described his aggressive accompaniment as confrontational
alaincharnier1971 2 years ago
Bonne Anniversaire Notre Légende
CssPgm57 2 years ago 2
DJANGO !! HE was the man . lots of "imitators".. he was the best !!
gittar1 2 years ago 2
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Joyeux 100 Anniversaire au Roi Manouche, repose en paix Django!
fistokov 2 years ago
Bon anniv' Django !
Rroutch 2 years ago 2
Qu aurait il fait avec 4 doigts ? Incoyable et trop bon ...
machtoc 2 years ago
But not just the two finger is the main thing in his music.
galandember 2 years ago
Wow... Django just goes OFF on this one... his strings must've been smoking after that!
WolfStatic 2 years ago 2
And he only used two fingers which is even more incredible.
JackHauss 2 years ago
damn, i know for a fact django, stephane and the group lit a fat doobie before this recording.
TheDirteeSanchez 2 years ago
The best violinist ever, Stephane Grappelli.
TheDirteeSanchez 2 years ago 28
@TheDirteeSanchez nay. Niccolo Paganini. sorry. SG is damn good though.
longliverock515 1 year ago 3
@TheDirteeSanchez ahhh hieven las venas exalta hasta a los muertos
suelodelsur 11 months ago
Best guitarist that has ever lived.
MattyMerrt 2 years ago 4
WHY is he? what makes him special honest ?
122edvanas 2 years ago
@122edvanas Well, he only had 2 fingers, and e can play better than most people who use their 4.
MattyMerrt 2 years ago 4
totally forgot about that
122edvanas 2 years ago
he had all his fingers but could only use the first two properly, he would use the other two to play chords because they were in a fixed position
woodros 2 years ago
@woodros Yeah, I believe the tendons got shrunk in a house fire, correct?
MrFuckyouintheneck 1 year ago
@MrFuckyouintheneck something like that....you have the best username ever btw
woodros 1 year ago
@woodros Haha, thanks man
MrFuckyouintheneck 1 year ago
django war und pleibt derbeste
johnygitta 2 years ago