Django Reinhardt - Paris Blues

[NiraTocco]

If "his entire band deserve credit", then if possible can u name the other players when u post? Thanks.

[mateinegriu]

hehe ... electric ??

[AnarchyAlleyCat]

what year was this recorded'?

[blackhighpanther]

haha fukn django!

[WieteEdz]

this is IT IT IT SOUL BIGA EMOTIONZZZZZ KUNST MET N GROTE K

[LibraryPervert]

A lot of music from the spy movie genre (including the James Bond series) follows works such as this and 'All the Cats Join In' by Benny Goodman. It's close, but dynamite originals such as this performance are more powerful, more 'rock' if you will.

[erockemad]

Wonderful!



[fsdmeo11]

That REALLY sounds like an Electric Guitar

[shanahankof]

minute 1:05 the imperial march ?

[MrBogdanChe]

@shanahankof You silly Spaniard, this masterpiece is way older than The Imperial March.

[poochieman789]

Just fantastic medicine for the soul...

[riceboy287]

Who was the drummer? He sounded familiar

[nickelback1955]

This is shit hot .... Ive been wasting my life listening to all sorts of shite. This rocks.

[phillip4644]

Could you imagine if django would have had access to a high end electric guitar. Move over Stevie Ray and Jimmy H.

[TheHuMoCa]

@phillip4644 Django didnt like electric guitars. I know that towards the end he did record some with an electric though.

[The1chihira]

wie zijn daar mee aan het smurfen surfen?

[protivutuk]

can somebody tell me on which album i can find this. is this the actual name of the song

[kurt797979]

@protivutuk myfriend that's the name Blues en Mineur , not paris blues .

[danlovesnan]

is it true that he didn't know much about harmony and music?

[scoress6]

So good!

[N30N94]

that's the funeral march

[polarandlee]

@ OlymPigs2010 Grapelli stayed in the UK during WWII, Django returned to

Paris.

Limehouse Blues is a jazz standard, Django didn't write it. Douglas Furber (lyrics) and Philip Braham (music) did

.

[janosj]

Django Reinhardt is a great musician. He plays with the guitar AND he makes at the same time unbelievably happy music. I don't know how many CD's, Records, Double CD's etcetera I have of this - musically speaking - exceptional man. The Hot Club de France became the solution of having continuisly joy in the beauty he makes. The fact that Django cannot read music has brought his freedom with a genius as Stephane Grappely is. Losing tears is not a thing somene can do but it happens to me often...

[NAThan9871]

Actually the title of the song is : Blues en mineur or Mjnor Blues

[franklinrwful]

I play left handed and couldnt just change to right handed that easy. I broke my left arm once and tried to write left handed, that was bad enough.

[Wishiwasinthe70s]

Wow Django is something else he is such a big inspiration to my playing yet i cannot even play 10 seconds of any of his songs. I don't think i will try i will just enjoy his music and leave it at that.

[UncleDon8]

Django was notoriously difficult--temperament, sense of time, selfishness. The fact that Steph and the other lads hung on so long is one level of greatness the band provides for Django. The Jazz Hot 5 were superb--as sounding boards and inspirations for Dj to cut loose. I'm sorry this isn't the original Paris quintet, but it's wonderful music. Bass Solo!!!

[polarandlee]

Great track. Wrong photo: Grapelli ran away from Paris to England during the war, where as the rest of the band stuck it out in Paris. Grappeli does not record on this track his violin part taken by the clarinet.

[Violinina1]

He didn't spend the wartime years in London - he was in Paris. It was Grappelly who went to London.

[OlymPigs2010]

@Violinina1 ...I believe you are right!!!

[Porthlevenfan]

Not as good as Bert Weedon.........

[jazzmunky]

@Porthlevenfan I can only assume you're joking...

[callasexperience]

perfection, clarity

[horbergus]

django with an electric guitar, thats fucking cool

[thevainasband]

men,,, este tio es el efectivo!! Buen guitarrista!!! Buena bandaa!!Buena musiquee!

[1motormouse]

Yeah the whole band is brilliant, and along with Django the other one who stands out is Stephan Grapelli on the violin, the two went on to do lots of duets together

Motormouse

[MIKEYDREAD9]

There is no sweeter sound than Django. Hendrix #2. No debate till #3...

[numbifyify]

@MIKEYDREAD9 I heard that hendrix broke his guitar because he couldnt play like django

[polarandlee]

@numbifyify I heard Hendrix heard that's why Pete Townsend of The Who broke his guitar in 1965, and then repeatedly re-enacted it on stage in the two years prior to Hendrix being signed by The Who's manager, to The Who's Track Records.

[hurlumerlu]

@numbifyify

Did it really help ?

[RinovanH]

@numbifyify lots of work at the hospitals then

[Transformers2themax]

@numbifyify Again, like all fanboys of guitarists other than Jimi Hendrix, you seem to believ that just because of preference, they're better. Wrong. Django was not nearly as talented, but he was still a gifted guitarist. Hendrix was revolutionary for the electric guitar. He was revolutionary for music in general. Just about every time he picked up a guitar, it was a different story, regardless if it was a song he had already played. With your grammar, your ignorance is not that surprising.

[JOHNNYG99X]

@Transformers2themax "Django was not nearly as talented, but he was still a gifted guitarist" ... just gifted ?

[Transformers2themax]

@JOHNNYG99X Gifted; talented; whatever the hell you want to call it. There are a lot of really skilled guitarists out there and to just decide that Django Reinhardt is the greatest all because he's what YOU prefer and is less popular is pure ignorance and narcissistic. I like both, but at least I can make judgments aside from preference....

[nickelback1955]

@Transformers2themax  Really?

[Transformers2themax]

@nickelback1955 Yes, there's this thing called the Electric Church theory...Django was good, no doubt about that, but it wasn't nearly as meaningful as Jimi Hendrix's. It was just European jazz music, whereas Jimi's actually had meaning to it. It was mind expanding and no one could remake it. Besides, I strongly doubt that Django could play the guitar with his teeth, play it behind his back, or rearrange solos in his head and play them backwards. Never mind, you wouldn't understand.

[Catharax]

@Transformers2themax How about all you losers shut the fuck up and just listen to music? You know, the entire reason it's here in the first place? To be listened to. Humans have to take everything further. This is why we can't have good things.

[Transformers2themax]

@Catharax Actually, I intended to shut the people having this debate up in the first place. Really, because of their differences in genre and brand of guitar, the only way you can compare Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix is at the same level. So you're-goddamn, motherfucking-welcome, sir.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax Django basically founded a whole school of guitar style called gypsy jazz. No one did it before him. Django decided to study jazz and learn 100's of songs as well as compose his own in the genre, yes, giving these songs immense meaning of his own. I would guess Hendrix would have held Django as a maestro. Jimi was amazing songwriter, poet, singer, monster bluesman but not a jazz guy--he would need years of study for this.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax Playing behind your back and with your teeth are gimmicks and not hard, actually--great showmanship but not musically amazing. As for backward solos--that's great production and hendrix could overdub separate tracks. Django never overdubbed a solo on recordings. Besides, genius, Django did the biggest trick of all-- played all his solos with only two fingers due to a mangled fretting hand.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Plus, playing an acoustic guitar with two fingers can't be anywhere near as difficult as playing an electric guitar with your teeth; especially when Jimi could probably do the same. Most of the elements guitarists use today are from Hendrix. That electric screeching they also overdo in solos?--that roots all the way back to Jimi....

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax You are clearly not a guitarist. Hendrix ripped some blues riffs with his teeth which isn't hard, just ballsy and showy fun. Any average blues player could do it. Playing the solos Django did with only the forefinger and middle finger on his fretting hand is seemingly impossible and baffles every guitarist both great and beginner. He was one of the first if not the first truly hot single note lead guitarists on record over 30 years before Jimi.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Actually, it was more than "just ballsy and showy fun". People had done in it the past; in fact, that's why he did it, but it wasn't very common at all. He was left handed and while growing up playing the guitar, he had to hide the fact from his father to avoid beatings. So what did he do? He played with his teeth. I believe I read that in a section of Cherokee Mist, he does it with his teeth, but I'm not sure....

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax This is BS. Hendrix played with his teeth for showmanship as a lot of others had done.  His dad bought him his first guitars and didn't beat him as far as I have read or Jimi said. Jimi was a tremendous stage presence who kicked the crap out of the British blues guys. Hendrix stole many a lick from Freddy King, Otis Rush and Buddy Guy but admittedly, I prefer Hendrix on the blues to all those guys. His live at Winterland Red House solo is my favorite slow blues solo.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 It's a fact. You mustn't have read that much on him regarding his origins in guitar playing. He even wrote a letter himself about the story. Yes, his father bought him his first guitars, but anyone who knows enough about Jimi knows that he had a rough upbringing. He was in a town in the South where people had to learn how to play with their teeth if they were left-handed. In no way is this "BS". It's just factual information that anyone could find.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax It makes no sense that a lefty would have to play with his teeth. Hendrix never said this and I read his bio. Playing with your teeth was a showy thing the tough chitlin circuit audiences liked and wanted but it had nothing to do with left-handedness. Hendrix simply restrung a righty guitar backwards to play conventionally, unlike Otis Rush, who didn't even restring a righty guitar but rather just flipped it over and played upside down.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Makes no sense? Lol. His father would have beaten him if he didn't. You're probably just looking on Wikipedia or the top of the screen from a Google/Bing search.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax Hendrix started on a broomstick and he practiced hours and hours a day, listening to jazz, R&B, rock and roll and blues. The teeth thing was to give a show and other people did it before him. It became legendary because Jimi became a huge star and brought th showmanship that was commonplace in the chitlin circuit to a huge audience. Jimi was a phenomenal seminal talent but so was Django.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Sure, he may be large in the jazz sub-culture of the early 1900s, but he really didn't revolutionize guitar playing as a culture. Jimi Hendrix wasn't just a show artist, he also did it for spiritual reasons and as a way of mobilizing the counterculture. Music of the early days was great, but it missed spirituality; it had no culture in it; it was too conservative. When the '60s came around, music from just about everywhere was combined. Life was desegregated itself.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 And how dare you call Eric Clapton boring. I would even say his guitar playing was much more spiritual than Hendrix's. Jimi was one of the first to really use the wah-wah pedal the way he did, but Clapton practically brought it to a-whole-nother level. Disraeli Gears very well promotes the fact. His style was just untouchable. As a matter of fact, Clapton is one of the only other guitarists I don't like hearing being covered by Hendrix....

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax Clapton--booorrrrriiiiinnnnngg­ggggg! Excruciatingly long-winded blues solos prevail in his music. His voice is borrriiiinnngggg, too, as well as most of his songs imo.. And, yeah, Hendrix's dad was going to beat a full grown Jimi touring on his own in the chitlin circuit for not playing with his teeth. This is false and Jimi never said that. Jorma?  You ought to check out the guy he wishes he could play like and slavishly copied: Blind Blake.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Now you have run out of logic. You are nothing but a biased narcissist who bases all of his judgments off preference. Read your comment, you sound like a child. First, you act as though you're this expert on guitar players, bashing legends and promoting others in the process, and now you sound like a twelve year old who just watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time in their life. If you're a guitarist like you claim to be, you lack a lot of needed respect.

[egomy9]

@Transformers2themax So, you know not a thing of Blind Blake, who Jourma would say is perhaps the greatest fingerpicker of all time and you say I am pretentious. I didn't say Clapton wasn't a great player as he has played huge concerts to millions of satisfied customers but I along with a healthy contingency of others feel he is dull. Hendrix's dad never threatened to beat Jimi if he didn't play with his teeth. And it's illogical to connect teeth playing with being lefty.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 Most of the music that came out in 1967 was fantastic. That was the one year where an entire album was perfect. I'm actually listening to an original print of Surrealistic Pillow right now...I like Hendrix, Clapton, Django, Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Kid Funk...hell, I like a little Stevie Ray Vaughn here and there. But Jorma Kaukonen's probably the most spiritual guitarist out of the bunch. I mean, I know the guy. Lol.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax You're incorrect: Django's guitar playing was exactly the appeal of his music along as no one had ever played like that before and it was every bit as spiritual as Jimi. Actually, Django took standards and reinvented them through his playing otherwise they wouldn't have been interesting. The Electric Church is something Jimi invented and it's some acid-tripping theory. Jimi was awesome but not better than Django, only different and more modern

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 I honestly don't get how this type of music is spiritual. It's relaxing and yes, it's enjoyable, but it's nowhere near the mind-warping styles of artists like Clapton, Hendrix, or Jorma Kaukonen. You must be one of those types who believes only the music from the early-20th Century was good. Most folks from that era wouldn't understand Hendrix; they wouldn't get any spiritual impact from it...That's because this music is the only kind of music they had ever heard.

[Transformers2themax]

@TheDinosaurs1000 And the Electric Church was not "some acid-tripping theory"--it literally had to do with the music itself and how it could warp one's spirituality. In a way, it was kind of like its own acid trip, and I'm not gonna doubt that LSD and psychedelics had nothing to do with it. That just wasn't the idea. The theory was very much like Bob Marley's on the spirituality of music and it's impact on a listener...You're just out-casting these artists because they did drugs.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax I was tripping on cid before you were born, most likely, and have nothing against drug use. Marley and Hendrix would most definitely be the first to tell you Django's playing is very spiritual. It just didn't move you like Hendrix, that's all. To m(and many others, I might add) Clapton is a borrrriiiinnngggg. I'm glad Jimi overshadowed him. Learn to play music and you'll see

[Catharax]

@Transformers2themax You're trying to act smart, but failing terribly. Music is all about subjectivity. It IS up to every individual to decide who they think is the greatest of all time. Based off their PREFERENCES. Their TASTE. Their OPINION. Then, those are their thoughts, nothing more. You are also ignorant.

[Transformers2themax]

@Catharax And actually, there is a major separation of actual fair judgment and preference. I'm getting worn out from people acting as if everything is all about preference. To say "This music is better than that", that is based on preference. But to say, like I already said myself, "because of their differences in genre and brand of guitar, the only way you can compare Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix is at the same level"--that is fair judgment....(Cont.)

[Transformers2themax]

@Catharax (Cont.) Like, I hate Queen but I still believe F-Mercury was a talented singer and will defend the fact. Also, perhaps, you should learn the definition of a terminology before using it? "Ignorant" doesn't entirely define intelligence--it's about one's attention span. And if you had large enough of one to even look at my previous comments, you wouldn't have made such irrational responses. I have not ignored anyone here. I have made fair judgments and respect anyone who's done the same.

[JOHNNYG99X]

@Transformers2themax take it easy man, I never said Django was the best.. yes there are many who play great, but few who are true innovators...personally I prefer Jimi and Eric.. I was just surprised to hear you thing of Django as just a "gifted" player.. he was hell of a lot more than that, and to think he only played with 2 fingers..

[Transformers2themax]

@JOHNNYG99X Besides, there's a major difference between catchy jazz jam tunes and actually spiritual music. But if you don't even get that, you clearly haven't heard of the Electric Church.

[JOHNNYG99X]

@Transformers2themax dont get the connection, sorry.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@Transformers2themax Actually, Django was quite a bit better improvisor than Jimi in terms of playing a different solo every time on 100's of complex jazz pieces yet always staying within the song. Hendrix was primo, my favorite rock guitarist, perhaps, but he has nothing on Django who revolutionized the guitar in his own way, way ahead of his time. He invented a whole style of picking and voicing of chords. Any guitarist worth his salt will tell you this.

[fall761]

Masters from the past, we love you!!!

[JohnnyLeyenda]

One of my favorite artists of all time.

[ginaszoo36]

So many thank yous for sharing!

[helgevig]

@ginaszoo36 I SECOND THAT!!! Thank you SOOO much for sharing this unique piece of art. <3

[MCCXK120]

Without doubt the greatest jazz guitarist ever.

[JoelLXVI]

the drum solo makes me want to headbang 

[ccatdaddy64]

What year is this? Never heard it said, but wondering if this was pre 50's and if so, is any Rockabilly artist gave this guy some perhaps due credit for their genre?

[VintageSG]

@ccatdaddy64

The only rockabilly artist I know of who namechecks Django is Brian Setzer. His album 'Wolfgangs Night Out' contains a track 'For Lisa' which is a loving tribute. Close your eyes and listen to it, it really is both close in feel and texture.

If anyone can come up with anyone else, I'd love to hear it.

[lcamano]

it's just me or... in 1:05 django plays the first chords of the imperial march?? lol

[EvaAdorable]

@lcamano I think he totally does!

[malicious199]

@lcamano It is most likely an imitation of Chopin's Funeral March. Easy mistake to make as they are quite similar.

[cocobadgirl]

@lcamano That made my day!

[serugiran1500]

@lcamano Nop

Django Plays the Funeral March

[UncleDon8]

I love the placement and style of the drummer in this song. You're right. These cats can keep up with Django...wow. What year is this??

[gioj3]

who argues over which kind of music is better?

Thats like me saying i can smell more air than you.

[jimmybrown11111]

they guy didn't even have full use of his left hand, amazing.

[daveartwood]

Hendrix is my favorite but nobody is better than Django. He even influenced Charlie Christan, Les Paul, and Wes Montgomery.

[kuhnmartin]

Personally, I think Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist ever, hands down, no question. However, I also think Django has the best tone of any guitarist ever, and no one can touch him in that department. No one, not even Hendrix.

[jimiydoorshamelech]

@kuhnmartin

The amount of completely revolutionary, innovative, and un-guitar-like sounds Hendrix got from FEEDBACK alone qualifies him as the best guitarist ever.

[jimmybrown11111]

@kuhnmartin Hendrix is overrated, Clapton and Stevie Ray were better, Hendrix knew Clapton was better, but Hendrix was lucky to die young and smoked a lot of weed so all the airhead morons love him for that. Django owns all, Jazz is untouchable rock n roll is great but pales in comparison to what you can achieve in jazz musically.

[veral4991]

@jimmybrown11111 Hendix worse than Clapton? You're smoking more pot than he ever did,

Cream is a superb example of electric blues, but Clapton didn't have the creative power to keep up with Hendrix as a solo artist. Even tone-wise (after Cream).

As for Jazz being superior to rock, that's like saying Mozart is superior to Beethoven, or the Baroque era is superior to Romantic.

Each style has it's own nuances, both in emotional output and technique.

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 You don't know what you are talking about. It's your opinion I guess but I think your opinion is wrong. If you think Clapton or Vaughan were better then you really don't know much about any of the three guitarists. By the way, watch this. watch?v=zDg_hb3kHQc Hendrix was by far the best, he is on a whole other level, completely separate from anyone in that arena. I don't think Hendrix would say he is lucky he died young, I think you are just plain stupid for saying that.

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111You cannot compare Jazz to Rock and Roll.They are two completely different things, apples and oranges.Just another way you are showing you have zero clue about music or musicians.How can Rock and Roll pale to what you can achieve in Jazz musically?What about what you can create in Rock and Roll musically?Ever listened to Hendrix's performance of "Machine Gun" at the Fillmore East?Or the Beatles "A Day In The Life" ?You are just plain stupid and ignorant, and that's about it.

[jimmybrown11111]

@kuhnmartin Jazz and rock and roll apples and oranges? were you born in the 90's or something? without jazz and blues there would be no rock n roll you meat head! you can insult me all you want but Hendrix is overrated if you knew anything about sociology you would know that if you take away the drug use and the early death, which by the way have nothing to do with music, he wouldn't be what he is today. I don't see why people say he's the best, sure he is top 10 but not number 1.

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 Yes, apples and oranges. And no one said anything about the blues until you just did. Now the blues and rock and roll are similar, but jazz is very different. Just because something like rock and roll was partially inspired by jazz does not mean they are the same things or comparable. I do not look at Hendrix as a drug user or the fact that he died young like you do. I look at what he did while he was alive and the substance of what he left behind. Also, there is no other

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 guitarist, EVER, who has been more influential than Hendrix, and that is not opinion, that is fact. And not even you can dispute that. I don't think there is a guitarist who was more creative or who had more imagination and put in into his music in a very unique and beatiful way. Listen to Hendrix's "1983" from Electric Ladyland and maybe you will understand. Why I like Hendrix and why many people like him has nothing to do with drugs. I for one have never, ever, not once, tried

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 any kind of drugs, not even pot, not one time. I am 30, and not once have I done drugs, so I do not look at him as a drug hero of mine. The man was a beautiful human being and in my opinion the greatest guitarist ever because of the sheer virtuosity, brilliancy, and otherworldy imagination that he displayed in his music for the short time he was alive. That is why. So I don't think your sociology will help you hear. Just out of curiosity, who do you think are the top five?

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 Here are mine.1.Hendrix2.Clapton 3. SRV 4. Django Reinhart 5. B.B. King That's just my opinion. One last thing. Why do you think that issue after issure, year after year, when magazines rate the best guitarists of all time, either they vote or the readers vote, that Hendrix, almost every single time, is rated at the number one spot. This has been going on for years, several decades even. Do you ever wonder maybe that YOU just don't get it and we do and not the other way around?

[jimmybrown11111]

@kuhnmartin wow ok, look, Hendrix is great i just strongly believe he IS overrated. You might like him for all the right reasons, Im 23, theres 7 years between us. You know your stuff clearly, so are you not aware that you are the minority? We know music and yet so many people love Hendrix and say he's number one yet they don't know Django, or Atkins or Montgomery etc. That's who i am referring to, the lames who truly only like him because he smoked weed! Same with Marley. They don't listen to.

[jimmybrown11111]

@kuhnmartin his songs that are not Purple Haze and Foxy Lady! Im not saying you! Now, For me, its 1. Django 2.Andres Segovia 3.SRV 4.Clapton 5.B.B King, Hendrix 6th. Ive listnened to all his songs im not talking out of my ass hes good he made that guitar sound crazy as hell it was unique and new at the time ask someone to play some hendrix and they might, ask someone to play some django with 2 fingers and they might not. Hendrix is the most influential sure but during a time with mass exposure.

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 Well, I guess it's the same thing for me with Queen. They are one of my favorite bands but people, and radio, only know, "Bohemian Rhapsody" "We Will Rock You" "We are the champions" "Another one bites the dust" "Killer Queen" and "Crazy Little thing called love." It drives me nuts. They have never heard "The Show Must Go On" which I think is by far Queens greatest song, especially if you understand the lyrics and what they mean and the story behind them. Anyways, I completely

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 forgot about Segovia. He is number 5 for me, I don't know how I forgot about him. People don't want to know Django I believe. They hear Hendrix and it is rock and roll. Django just sounds like old jazz to them. Unfortunately they don't understand what great music is. But you are right about people playing Hendrix. I can play most of Hendrix's songs but I have struggled so much with Django's songs, I have struggled so much. And that's with four fingers. As for Bob Marley, I am

[kuhnmartin]

@jimmybrown11111 not much of a fan of his. He has great lyrics but not really my kind of music. I wish when people think of Hendrix they would know more than Foxy Lady and Purple Haze. I can't remember the last time I chose to listen to either of those two songs, album versions, on my Ipod. I love his live stuff. Anyways, this is all just my opinion anyways. This debate will last forever, long after we are gone and dead.

[jimmybrown11111]

@kuhnmartin Indeed, we can agree to disagree.

[MrHenri69]

@jimmybrown11111 pourquoi ne pas désapprouver?

[Jackolafrite]

@jimmybrown11111 Si tu aimes pas Django t'écoutes pas et puis c'est tout !

Mais arrête de pourrir cette page avec tes commentaires dont on a rien à foutre !

[jimmybrown11111]

@Jackolafrite WTF?

[taildragger53]

@jimmybrown11111 A rock player who comes close to Django Reinhardt is Jan Akkerman. Akkerman would sink most around...has done for 40 yrs now.

[djdiablo8816]

@kuhnmartin When ever magazines do guitar ratings they never include jazz guitarists......just popular rock guitarists.

[TheDinosaurs1000]

@jimmybrown11111 Clapton, crapton--borrriiinnnngggg, not even in the same league as the other-worldy Jimi and Clapton knew it and so did the fans at the time. Stevie Ray copied Hendrix slavishly but never outdid him and was not nearly as good a songwriter in my opinion. Stevie was great but not Jimi, who was seminal. 

[hayk446]

What can I say... AMAZING! Fantastic...

[romienomie]

Damn! I can hear where Hendrix got a lot of his influence from. Amazing! This dude was the man!

[romienomie]

Damn!

[CasualtyComplex]

1:05 mmmm..

[maurieer]

IMO, Django Reinhard was the influence that enabled the guitarists of today to create the music of the day.

[jazzman110393]

magnifico!!juega muy bien y nunca juega malo-me gusta mucho

[stlreader1]

Nothing can top Django's playing except when the clarinet player does it and then the bass player tops them both.

Jazz at its best.

[taildragger53]

He WAS the best ever. Nobody will ever compare, not even with 10 fingers!

[MCCXK120]

@taildragger53 You are absolutely right- nobody has come close to his ability.

[taildragger53]

@MCCXK120 I'm sure you are the same in that you can listen to hundreds of guitarists and yet still keep coming back to D.R. For some 48 yrs now, after stumbling upon Django by accident, i've kept searching for a guitar player with the same level of imagination, attack and tone but the others melt into one heap.

Don't get me wrong, the others are fabulous, whatever genre they play, but Reinhardt is unique.

There's a mysticism attached to his sound.

[MCCXK120]

@taildragger53 Thanks Taildragger-are you by any chance a pilot of old aircraft as well as a fan of the Gipsy Genius?

[derijke50]

love this version!

[barkazzaz]

i still dont get why he didnt change his picking hand but if he can play like that with 2 fingers i guess he can play however he wants to...

[Reubenman]

@barkazzaz hey bark, if you play guitar you should try switching the guitar around and strumming with the opposite hand. i do it sometimes to remind myself of how awkward it is to learn guitar when youve only just started :P its so weird

[guitar19904]

@barkazzaz

thats a good point i never thought of that myself, i guess he just played right handed most of his life before burning his arm, so he jsut rolled with it and carried on playing that way

[taildragger53]

@barkazzaz Many who knew Django said that if he'd had usage of all his fretting fingers he would've been just an average gypsy player. It was his accident that caused him to develop a unique style. Even today, most Gypsy players emulate D.R. by using two fingers. Some even tie their 3rd & 4th fingers on their left hand just to make it authentic.

[callasexperience]

Charlie Christian knew of Django and heard his st louise blues

[TeddyDupont]

This is actually called "Blues En Mineur" and was recorded several times by Django. This version is from November, 1947 and the other personnel are:- Gerard Leveque (clt), Eugene Vees (gtr), Emmanuel Soudieux (bs), Andre Jourdan (dm). As always, Django really swings.

[beneaththepavement]

incroyable...avali prala!

[KEKOLUL]

Hats down for a great musician!