django's importance and influence is underscored by how many musicians in genre's seemingly far removed from this style have used his techniques and phrasing as a bedrock of their mastery of the guitar.
to CAATPERSON1013 Django was the musician with the great help Stephen Grappelli that made de HOT CLUB in France. two fingers, he lost in a fire . He wrote a great song called "NUAGES" Y know you re going to like it. Nelly7412
Beautiful sound! I am just beginning to learn about Django Reinhardt's music. This past summer, I read a biography of Django. After that, I was determined to hear his music. I was amazed to find a double CDset of his recordings with the Hot Club Quintet. Now, this recording on You Tube is my first introduction to Django's playing an electric guitar. What a gifted artist he was!
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@beq1300 You got it right. You know that Wes and Pat and Jimi and al the other great guitarists who followed were listening to Django. Ever lick comes along somewhere in Djangos solos with style and melodic harmonization.
@edcerc Reinhardt always had trouble being heard on acoustic. He'd tell the rhythm players to cut out whenever he soloed. Sometimes he argued with Grappelli because Stephane was so much louder than him.(LOL)
When he first fitted the p'up to his Selmer/Maccaferri he turned up the volume ALL the way and that's why alot of his recordings on amplified guitar had feedback issues!
But a gypsy player does sound more authentic on an acoustic.
@cliffworks4321 Around October 1946 visited the Epiphone factory on West 14th St, NYC and handed a natural wood Epiphone Zephyr 3442 and a Zephyr Dreadnought amp (30 watts).
According to reports , this was the guitar used by D.R. during the Ellington concert.
It had very basic NYC pickups, resembling P-90s in look.
If you type "Epiphone Zephyr Django" in your browser you will find some info.
He was also handed a Gibson ES 300 during the Ellington tour.
@taildragger53 excellent research thanks! I've been researching enigmatic George Cordoba who I read played with DR's rhythm section, what a wonderful player with the same joyful spirit and killer chops.
The quality of the Duke Ellington recordings are because the concerts were amplified using roof-mounted overhead microphones, very uncommon at the time. The Chicago Concert was recorded backstage in secret using a recording device. The recently found Carnegie Hall concert recording was however recorded onto a high-quality aluminium acetate disc directly from a live-feed of the radio broadcast. Only the 1953 recordings are better quality than the Carnegie Hall recordings.
@F0nkyNinja thank you for more excellent research, Teddy Dupont's photo collection is wonderful, I have a DR biography somewhere around here but still can't find half my belongings since the mar 11 earthquake!
If you want Django Reinhardt footage, go to "TeddyDupont"s Youtube channel, or if you want a high-quality version of the Jazz Hot clip go to "LOBSTERFILMS1"s Channel.
If this recording is at the end of Djangos career he must be playing with 2 fingers, some people thought he got better when he had to work with his injury, I think I agree after listening to this!
@andyguitar99 Reinhardt was in constant agony from the age of 18, when the caravan fire occurred. The skin on his left hand was shrunken and tight. Sometimes the skin would crack and it would bleed.
The whole left side of his body never healed, esp his hand.
He drank heavy to kill the pain.
He was advised to have his hand amputated after the accident.
My first hearing of Django on an electric guitare. Really good. And knowing very well ellington i can say that Duke has made the max to integrate Django style in its own envornment.
My first hearing of Djanog on an electric guitare. Really good. And knowing very well ellington i can say that Duke has made the max to integrate Django style in its own envornment.
Remember, if this was near the end of his career, he only had 2 fingers. . . . and still managed to play better than some of the high profile guitarists that we hear today.
Acoustic Electric in current parlance generally refers to instruments built with an acoustic body and a piezo pickup or piezo/ internalmicrophone blend. An old selmer with a magnetic pickup, floating or not, is most definitely not an "acoustic electric" or rather, perhaps I should say that to call it that would be misleading. Taylor Swift plays an "acoustic electric". This recording should every bit a magnetic pickup on a hollowbody. I has the general clarity of an archtop.
"It's a common mistake to someone who doesn't know the first thing about guitars or pickups."
that is a jackass comment with a shitload assumptions. You don't know shit about electric guitars either, judging by your posts here. Frankly, I think 2nd violinist has done more research on DR than you have.
As for "it's a Selmer with a pickup" well, that's called an ELECTRIC guitar back in the day. Solidbodies (with exception of early Rick frying pans) didn't exist yet.
@ukepenviolin This recording was when he was in the USA with Duke Ellington and he was given an 'Epiphone' Emperor or Senator on his arrival.
Also a Gibson...but he had problems with them,according to Charles Delauney.
He was used to his Maccaferri with the fitted pickup. I saw one of Django's Selmer guitars on display in the late 1960s. The action was VERY high, neck was warped, bridge held together with matchbox wood & sellotape.
Does anyone know where I can check out more of Django's electric stuff/what record this was on? I have a ton of his acoustic stuff with the hot club but I'm having difficulty finding his electric material.
@ochee08 I hope this isn't too basic, as advice goes, but most of Django's recordings from the late 40's onwards have him play electric, or electrified acoustic. Sadly, "from the late 40's onwards" means very few years. Still, the man was prolific, so you'll find loads.
There will never be another guitar player like Django Reinhardt untill the end of time. Sure, there might be another Hendrix, or Clapton. This is because they provided music with a new style which has thus been duplicated. You see child prodigies playing like Hendrix nowadays, anyways. But you never see anyone play like Django, nor will you ever. Rest in Peace Django, we miss you :(
@deprogramraycappo i wonder how and what type of guitar was amplified, it could have been an arch top with a pickup, too difficult to analyze, it doesn't sound like a pure solid bodied instrument, the sonority of the chords and fatness of the single note lines suggest hollowness, hmm were solid body electric guitars around when this was recorded? would be interested to learn the facts.
@cliffworks4321 Yes, there were solid body guitars at the time. Les Paul designed the Les Paul guitar, mainly for Jazz guitarists, but they rejected it at the time, probably because it was solid and too heavy. It sold very poorly. On the other hand, the Cowboy guitarists went bonkers over Leo Fender's new Telecasters...
He played a Gibson ES300 during his US tour. On the photo he is posing with Duke Ellington's guitarist Freddy Taylor's Swedish-made Levin guitar on his very first day, the very first time in the US. Django played an Epiphone a while before going to the US in a Paris at a place named "El Rodeo Club". After coming home from the US he was given a magnetic Stimer pickup to use on his Selmer guitar, switching between playing acoustically and electrically between recordings.
The Remaining two recordings are EXTREMELY high quality acetates from a Radio Broadcast, recorded by Bill Savory and kept in his collection in secret until recently when it was discovered. The two tunes are "Improvisation #2" and "Honeysuckle Rose". from the Carnegie Hall concert on Nov. 23 or 24, 1946. You can hear a brief excert on "TheTeddyDupont"s youtube channel. The Chicago concert was recorded in secret by an audio engineer, and the recently discovered concert by Savory.
You're welcome! There are six recordings of Django with Duke Ellington. Four are from the Chicago Civic Opera House on Nov 10. 1946 and include "Ride Red Ride" "A Blues Riff" "Improvisation #2 (also known as "Improvisation #6") and "Honeysuckle Rose". They were issued on Frémaux Intégrale Django Reinhardt Volume 13.
Yes, you are correct. "Hollowbody electric" would be more descriptive but in the days of this recording, this was most definitely "electric" in the same vein as Charlie Christian's ES-150. Definitely not "acoustic electric" which is a contemporary development (past 20 years or so roughly) whereby there is an attempt to pickup the acoustic sound, using a piezo and or built in microphone. In fact many sound nothing like acoustic guitars but not everybody seems to notice...
@Facehoal I played violin - classical, country, string band, jazz, etc. until I had an injury left me a quadriplegic. I have seen and played with guitarists on electric, acoustic, and acoustic with pickups. I'm sure you're right about the guitar but it plays and sounds totally differently from his '30s recordings. His Selmer allows much smoother transitions note to note and helps him avoid the hard, clipped notes on his earlier guitars, rare as they were. The fluidity is totally different.
God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
Now in front of god, django and charly will sit together changing licks, while the popes and priests from below will hear them without understanding. That, my brothers and sisters, will be the very modest punishment of these popes and priests ! God (=nature) has a lot of mercy but not the church ! All church administratives will have bad luck !
@Facehoal From Standring’s playjazzguitar: In 1946, Reinhardt took up the electric guitar and toured America as a soloist with the Duke Ellington band.
From Shelton Hull: 1947 was the year that Django made his first recordings on electric guitar.
From DAVID RICKERT on allaboutjazz: Reinhardt's electric period, which encompassed the last few years of his life, is the black sheep of his catalog. He was still in fine form and had even incorporated elements of bebop into his playing style.
Yes I'm sire ur correct dudemanwhoathe1st. I was simply trying to show my appreciation for such a wonderful guitarist who overcame many obstacles. Thx for the info. I just know the blues musicians were more revered in Europe than the US, probably because of race, even Jimi Hendrix! Am I correct on that assumption ?
Also he only had two fingers on his left hand! He grew up in a wandering gypsy troupe, lost his fingers in a fire. A miracle he became such an influence for modern day guitarists, especially after he joined Stephanie Grappelli(violinist ) in Paris with a group. Then came to US during the 30's 40's or 50's. The establishment(whites) in US didn't appreciate jazz, similarly as they didn't appreciate blacks, ie, Blues musicians until they went to Europe first. Then America would allow them to perfo
@mds1954 he had 4 fingers on his left hand...but his pinky and ring finger only have partial mobility. He only uses them for chords, and does all his soloing with only the other two fingers
@mds1954 he had four fingers, and it was in 46' when he came here. Jazz had been big in america for around 30 years already. Jazz and blues both originated in the US, and were popularized there. Also, he was only here for a short while, he disliked it quite a bit.
I am glad that even some of his music survived to be heard by this generation. Considering that he play guitar as a pure instrument without added sound effects from the various pedals and amplifier distortions available today. He was the greatest!
I emphatically disagree that this is the best phase of Django's career. That would definitely be the early days with The Hot Club Quintet of France. Check out the earlier recording with Stephane Grappelli of Honeysuckle Rose. I'm sure its on youtube somewhere.
@HolyFerdinand He's best with Grappelli/Hot Club but his electric playing shows his ease with the instrument even more in some ways than his acoustic playing (despite his well known physical problems).
you'd think electric would be easier overall on his fingers, but for me the tone is just a little too piercing. It's still pretty damn amazing, his style that is, just not...quite as titanic as the records with Grappelli. Not that anything is.
@2ndviolinist his dynamics are exquisite on the electric as the electric gives him more range to experiment with different plucking styles and fret positions. it's beautiful.
well, as far as being black and/or Argentine meaning you're not racist goes, I'm not touching that one. However, though Django is actually my favorite guitarist, I don't think it's fair to say he's the all-time best on electric, and I think he'd agree, since there have been so many great ones. However, when I looked into this more, I found another track off this album I like a lot. It's called Brazil, check it out if you haven't already.
@juanmanuelmiguezz I'd just like to point out that what you are doesn't mean that you are not racist, it's who you are that will define that. There are Argentinian, Blacks, gypsys, etc, who are racist.
@dieterlos Django was Gypsy and that word is derived from 'Egyptian'. The original Gypsy, like Reinhardt, had Arabic./Armenian/ etc blood.(Sinti)
Charles Delauney mentions this in his book on Django and he knew Reinhardt as friend for years. The Music of Gypsies, Flamenco, is heavily Arabic influenced.
@taildragger53 The Gypsies dudde do not really come from Egypt this is common mistake, they come from India. This derivation from the name its just a traditionally established misunderstanding
@grgtompen Ah yes, along the Sinti River. That is true to a point..although most Gypsies hate any connection with India. But that wasn't their first starting point. All those races started at Mesopotamia and worked their way through.
They were nomadic entertainers passing through the court of King Ahaseurus.
@dieterlos I agree with you 100%. Jazz is comprised of many different factors from all parts of the World. We are ALL mixed and come from the same area, if we trace back far enough.
To me, i see it as a huge advantage to blend as many music genres as possible.
y if you listen to a lot of styles like jazz,blues,rock,metal and even some pop you can create youre own style which inspires others to use youre style ans so on and on :p
@dieterlos That is the best way really. To absorb from different sources. But,ironically, even if we study the styles of any from the Blues world or Rock World we find that Django was the 1st person they ever heard and gripped them (Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore , BB King ALL Django fans).
Don't now when this was recorded but judging from the sound of Duke's band I'd say it was after Django lost two fingers on his left hand meaning: He's playing this with only two fingers on his left hand. The picture obviously was taken before the fire. Personally, I like his acoustic sound better - it's cleaner, crisper and more "His" sound - to me. But I'll listen to anything he did. Greatness!
@thestoryplease Actually, he lost use of his last two fingers at the age of 18. He had limitations of the fingers, and still made use of them when playing chords. His fingers looked halfway decent in this picture, but Django didn't start playing Jazz until after his injury...
@thestoryplease He never lost any fingers (while alive). They were partially paralyzed. He held them just like that while playing afterwards. I believe this picture is well after the fire (which happened when he was 18).
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WUTANGJEK 2 weeks ago in playlist django reinhardt
Happy pre-birthday to you on the 24th, Django...
and to me! That's the one interesting thing about me. On my gravestone, I want written, "he was born on the same day as Django Reinhardt."
ChickenVendetta 2 weeks ago
django's importance and influence is underscored by how many musicians in genre's seemingly far removed from this style have used his techniques and phrasing as a bedrock of their mastery of the guitar.
LanceHelmut 3 weeks ago
Beautiful tone, puts me in mind of Peter Green quite a bit. I'm sure he dug Django, knowing that he was a big influence on BB King.
DirtyDeck 3 weeks ago
django never dies!
djangomagnetico 1 month ago
to CAATPERSON1013 Django was the musician with the great help Stephen Grappelli that made de HOT CLUB in France. two fingers, he lost in a fire . He wrote a great song called "NUAGES" Y know you re going to like it. Nelly7412
nelly7412 1 month ago
he's obviously using an electric guitar, so this has to be from the mid-to-late 40's.
ramonasidneybaker 1 month ago
Fans of early jazz guitar should also check out the work of Eddie Lang.
TuberOnTheLoose 1 month ago
Another good guitarist was our Oscar Aleman, who played for Josephine Baker and was member of the Hot Club of France! Greetings from Argentina!
charlesnorte 2 months ago
The best jazz guitarist
HAhaanOrphan 2 months ago
Beautiful sound! I am just beginning to learn about Django Reinhardt's music. This past summer, I read a biography of Django. After that, I was determined to hear his music. I was amazed to find a double CDset of his recordings with the Hot Club Quintet. Now, this recording on You Tube is my first introduction to Django's playing an electric guitar. What a gifted artist he was!
Catperson1013 3 months ago 4
someone posted that idea he used an Epiphone Zephyr on the tour with the Duke. that is an arch top with pickups
cliffworks4321 4 months ago
20 people dont know the meaning of good jazz
pollaran22 4 months ago
@pollaran22 they don't know what jazz is, since all of it is good :D
rod3067 4 months ago
@beq1300 um im pretty sure your wrong
pollaran22 4 months ago
aha.... okey ..... how is your mother?
MrDemeter69 4 months ago
This is a semiacoustic guitar .... yo're redneck...
MrDemeter69 4 months ago
@MrDemeter69 thats just the picture faggot
Djobohobo 4 months ago
Wow, hearing him play electric guitar sounds so bizarre. Great though.
mrsub360 4 months ago
amazing...true art and style
Flexman10 5 months ago
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1 week ago SORRY I HATE DOING THIS BUT I HAVE TO!sorry about this when you are reading this dont stop or something bad will happen! My name is summer i am 15 years old i have blonde hair,many scars no nose or ears..i am dead.if you dont copy this just like from the ring, on 5 more sites.. or..i will appear one dark quiet night when your not expecting it by your bed with a knife and kill you. this is no joke something good will happen to you if you post this on 5 more pages
Baffi1096 5 months ago
You may want to check out Joe Bonamassa. Was opening for BB King at 15.
springer1871 5 months ago
@springer1871 and he still plays like a 15 year old... what a great guitar player!
Lukeblueslover 4 months ago
Django expresses Joy like no other
metrakos 5 months ago 13
Octaves: Django, Wes and, then, Jimi.
beq1300 5 months ago
@beq1300 "Third stone from the rising sun"
n64wilbert 5 months ago
@beq1300 You got it right. You know that Wes and Pat and Jimi and al the other great guitarists who followed were listening to Django. Ever lick comes along somewhere in Djangos solos with style and melodic harmonization.
oldpython 5 months ago
A pioneer of the electric guitar!
beq1300 5 months ago
Master of gypsy jazz and beyond.
MajesticMist 5 months ago
i like him so much better on acoustic
edcerc 5 months ago
@edcerc Reinhardt always had trouble being heard on acoustic. He'd tell the rhythm players to cut out whenever he soloed. Sometimes he argued with Grappelli because Stephane was so much louder than him.(LOL)
When he first fitted the p'up to his Selmer/Maccaferri he turned up the volume ALL the way and that's why alot of his recordings on amplified guitar had feedback issues!
But a gypsy player does sound more authentic on an acoustic.
taildragger53 5 months ago
@taildragger53 what type of pickup was it i wonder? someone commented on another clip that he used an Epiphone Zeypher on the Ellington tour.
cliffworks4321 4 months ago
@cliffworks4321 Around October 1946 visited the Epiphone factory on West 14th St, NYC and handed a natural wood Epiphone Zephyr 3442 and a Zephyr Dreadnought amp (30 watts).
According to reports , this was the guitar used by D.R. during the Ellington concert.
It had very basic NYC pickups, resembling P-90s in look.
If you type "Epiphone Zephyr Django" in your browser you will find some info.
He was also handed a Gibson ES 300 during the Ellington tour.
taildragger53 4 months ago
@taildragger53 excellent research thanks! I've been researching enigmatic George Cordoba who I read played with DR's rhythm section, what a wonderful player with the same joyful spirit and killer chops.
cliffworks4321 4 months ago
@cliffworks4321
The quality of the Duke Ellington recordings are because the concerts were amplified using roof-mounted overhead microphones, very uncommon at the time. The Chicago Concert was recorded backstage in secret using a recording device. The recently found Carnegie Hall concert recording was however recorded onto a high-quality aluminium acetate disc directly from a live-feed of the radio broadcast. Only the 1953 recordings are better quality than the Carnegie Hall recordings.
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
@F0nkyNinja thank you for more excellent research, Teddy Dupont's photo collection is wonderful, I have a DR biography somewhere around here but still can't find half my belongings since the mar 11 earthquake!
cliffworks4321 3 months ago
@cliffworks4321
I sent you a PM about George Cordoba info. :)
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
@cliffworks4321
If you want Django Reinhardt footage, go to "TeddyDupont"s Youtube channel, or if you want a high-quality version of the Jazz Hot clip go to "LOBSTERFILMS1"s Channel.
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
Am I the only younger person that enjoys Django Reinhardt? I've known another 18 year old but that's it.
SoundboyEric 5 months ago
@SoundboyEric I'm 15 :p
mislatero96 5 months ago
@SoundboyEric
My kids like Reinhardt and they're all younger than you..
GreasyGrumpy13 5 months ago
Chet Atkins Idol!!!!
alliecat1941 5 months ago
I hate being this person doing this. But i want to share this creation with like minded swing lads!!!
Tweet this link For a free download of my Remix of the all to Decadent "Minor Swing" Django is making his genius back into this modern age.
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damondixonmusician 6 months ago
Dajango was Chet Atkins idol!!
alliecat1941 6 months ago
Beautiful!
MusicKit 6 months ago
This sounds trite, but I love his tone. It's just the right mix of clean and gritty.
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TeddyCool23 6 months ago
FUCKING AMAZING!!
n64wilbert 6 months ago
The guitar on the picture is a Levin made in sweden.
TAFOUTLER 6 months ago
If this recording is at the end of Djangos career he must be playing with 2 fingers, some people thought he got better when he had to work with his injury, I think I agree after listening to this!
andyguitar99 7 months ago
@andyguitar99 Reinhardt was in constant agony from the age of 18, when the caravan fire occurred. The skin on his left hand was shrunken and tight. Sometimes the skin would crack and it would bleed.
The whole left side of his body never healed, esp his hand.
He drank heavy to kill the pain.
He was advised to have his hand amputated after the accident.
taildragger53 5 months ago
@MiCompre
Sure I totally forgot about Stephane
Limehouse Blues Rocks!! ("Rocks!!" in figural speech)
sahar0nb 7 months ago
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SuperBeibersucks 7 months ago
Never heard Django playing with different musicians than guitar players!
sahar0nb 7 months ago
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What about Stephane Grappelli? Surely you heard him playing with Steph!
MiCompre 7 months ago
@sahar0nb He was a jazz musician he often played with trumpet and other brass players as well as violin and piano players.
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My first hearing of Django on an electric guitare. Really good. And knowing very well ellington i can say that Duke has made the max to integrate Django style in its own envornment.
ingriddidier 7 months ago
My first hearing of Djanog on an electric guitare. Really good. And knowing very well ellington i can say that Duke has made the max to integrate Django style in its own envornment.
ingriddidier 7 months ago
@ingriddidier Djanog! LOL MADE THE MAX!
LuckyStrikesPops 7 months ago
@LuckyStrikesPops
Only a typo ! I am a fan of both Duke and Django since .. 35 years ago (from I was ten onwards !!)
ingriddidier 7 months ago
Remember, if this was near the end of his career, he only had 2 fingers. . . . and still managed to play better than some of the high profile guitarists that we hear today.
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TheAssholebullshit 7 months ago
what a genius...how he does those octaves at 1:20 i DO NOT KNOW
jamolaydz 7 months ago
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Easy. He has frets :-)
vibratingstring 7 months ago 2
@Facehoal
Acoustic Electric in current parlance generally refers to instruments built with an acoustic body and a piezo pickup or piezo/ internalmicrophone blend. An old selmer with a magnetic pickup, floating or not, is most definitely not an "acoustic electric" or rather, perhaps I should say that to call it that would be misleading. Taylor Swift plays an "acoustic electric". This recording should every bit a magnetic pickup on a hollowbody. I has the general clarity of an archtop.
ukepenviolin 7 months ago
@Facehoal
"It's a common mistake to someone who doesn't know the first thing about guitars or pickups."
that is a jackass comment with a shitload assumptions. You don't know shit about electric guitars either, judging by your posts here. Frankly, I think 2nd violinist has done more research on DR than you have.
As for "it's a Selmer with a pickup" well, that's called an ELECTRIC guitar back in the day. Solidbodies (with exception of early Rick frying pans) didn't exist yet.
ukepenviolin 7 months ago
@ukepenviolin This recording was when he was in the USA with Duke Ellington and he was given an 'Epiphone' Emperor or Senator on his arrival.
Also a Gibson...but he had problems with them,according to Charles Delauney.
He was used to his Maccaferri with the fitted pickup. I saw one of Django's Selmer guitars on display in the late 1960s. The action was VERY high, neck was warped, bridge held together with matchbox wood & sellotape.
taildragger53 5 months ago
supreme...
dirtysickeuropeans 8 months ago
django was a huge influence on bb king.... his feel is so soulful.... its amazing....
codehendrix 8 months ago
Does anyone know where I can check out more of Django's electric stuff/what record this was on? I have a ton of his acoustic stuff with the hot club but I'm having difficulty finding his electric material.
ochee08 8 months ago
@ochee08 I hope this isn't too basic, as advice goes, but most of Django's recordings from the late 40's onwards have him play electric, or electrified acoustic. Sadly, "from the late 40's onwards" means very few years. Still, the man was prolific, so you'll find loads.
jeanmariefagon 8 months ago
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one of the best to me...
Rodoadrenalina 8 months ago
0:00 - 0:16
mance02 8 months ago
Django is a God to me.
stikhi 8 months ago in playlist Good Jazz
Wonderful!Way ahead of his time....a fav!
eslider 9 months ago
im really fucking sick of seeing those mormon ads. seriously whas up with mormons and trying shove their religion down everyones throat.
amathew711 9 months ago 2
@amathew711 they think they are evangelizing, in reality they are annoying the fuck outta us.
crice6505 9 months ago
@amathew711 whats up with anyone trying to shove religieon down anyones throats...fuck religeon
TheMusicismylife56 8 months ago
@TheMusicismylife56 lol completely agree bro
amathew711 8 months ago
@TheMusicismylife56 God Bless You!
MrGeorgios2020 6 months ago
@MrGeorgios2020 haha kill yourself u bigot
TheMusicismylife56 6 months ago
@TheMusicismylife56 Amen
MrGeorgios2020 6 months ago
@MrGeorgios2020 leave me alone you ignorant bigot, stop sending me comments,go pray, steal and moleste children....whatever you do just lave me alone
TheMusicismylife56 6 months ago
he's playing electric!!! haha.. this guy is amazing...
jmc140789 9 months ago
1:42 is a gold moment
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There will never be another guitar player like Django Reinhardt untill the end of time. Sure, there might be another Hendrix, or Clapton. This is because they provided music with a new style which has thus been duplicated. You see child prodigies playing like Hendrix nowadays, anyways. But you never see anyone play like Django, nor will you ever. Rest in Peace Django, we miss you :(
jpd04 10 months ago
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jpd04 10 months ago
Breathtaking....
graybeard420 10 months ago
best yet
donottawaguitar 10 months ago
This is the only and one Django.
xF - Rio de Janeiro
XicoFlavio 10 months ago
The electric guitar gives the peice more clarity. I wish more musicians my age would look at great artists like this man.
MegaLamka 11 months ago
As clear as a bell. By far, the best Reinhardt i've ever heard for 50yrs. Thank you so much~
taildragger53 11 months ago
my friend where did you get this version. i've been looking for it all over and I can't seem to find it
Mechanicaldrugs98 1 year ago
que dire de plus : 2 doigts de bonheur : merci django
nonotc 1 year ago
this is just too good
castles111 1 year ago
@castles111 yeah i agree
reddmic2008 10 months ago
@Facehoal I wish there was better categorization of his music.
Most of the cd's I have are compilations. There needs to be a real definitive collection, grouped by sessions.
Some of those CD's don't have jack for liner notes.
But some of the recordings the guitar is very shrill and trebly.
I would like to find a cd just of electric stuff, I have one.
vegetasrevenge 1 year ago
If you can't tell that this is an electric guitar, then your privilege to post on this forum should be revoked.
deprogramraycappo 1 year ago 21
@deprogramraycappo i wonder how and what type of guitar was amplified, it could have been an arch top with a pickup, too difficult to analyze, it doesn't sound like a pure solid bodied instrument, the sonority of the chords and fatness of the single note lines suggest hollowness, hmm were solid body electric guitars around when this was recorded? would be interested to learn the facts.
cliffworks4321 4 months ago
@cliffworks4321 Yes, there were solid body guitars at the time. Les Paul designed the Les Paul guitar, mainly for Jazz guitarists, but they rejected it at the time, probably because it was solid and too heavy. It sold very poorly. On the other hand, the Cowboy guitarists went bonkers over Leo Fender's new Telecasters...
jcghooker 4 months ago
@jcghooker and they still are! cowboys going bonkers that is :-)
cliffworks4321 4 months ago
@cliffworks4321
He played a Gibson ES300 during his US tour. On the photo he is posing with Duke Ellington's guitarist Freddy Taylor's Swedish-made Levin guitar on his very first day, the very first time in the US. Django played an Epiphone a while before going to the US in a Paris at a place named "El Rodeo Club". After coming home from the US he was given a magnetic Stimer pickup to use on his Selmer guitar, switching between playing acoustically and electrically between recordings.
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
@F0nkyNinja excellent research bravo! cliff in tokyo but not a ninja, just an old dad :-)
cliffworks4321 3 months ago
@cliffworks4321
The Remaining two recordings are EXTREMELY high quality acetates from a Radio Broadcast, recorded by Bill Savory and kept in his collection in secret until recently when it was discovered. The two tunes are "Improvisation #2" and "Honeysuckle Rose". from the Carnegie Hall concert on Nov. 23 or 24, 1946. You can hear a brief excert on "TheTeddyDupont"s youtube channel. The Chicago concert was recorded in secret by an audio engineer, and the recently discovered concert by Savory.
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
@cliffworks4321
You're welcome! There are six recordings of Django with Duke Ellington. Four are from the Chicago Civic Opera House on Nov 10. 1946 and include "Ride Red Ride" "A Blues Riff" "Improvisation #2 (also known as "Improvisation #6") and "Honeysuckle Rose". They were issued on Frémaux Intégrale Django Reinhardt Volume 13.
F0nkyNinja 3 months ago
@Facehoal This is not an acoustic/electric. This is probably the Epiphone he picked up in the states.
I have some recordings with the "electric" Selmer and it sounds like crap.
So this is probably after he returned from the U.S.
vegetasrevenge 1 year ago
I love the slow playing he does in this version. Anyone know what album this is off of?
ingleman 1 year ago
God only knows how anyone could dislike this. It's things like this that make life worth living. Beauty.
paladinryan 1 year ago 2
As much as I love the early QHC, this is great.
robbourassaguitarist 1 year ago
17 people didnt have a life.. <3 <2 <1
iRobert 1 year ago 12
@Facehoal Near the end of his career Django did play electric though. It would help if we knew the year this was recorded.
jordan8199 1 year ago
so if you put an electric pickup on a guitar, that doesn't make it electric?
glennmiller2005 1 year ago
@glennmiller2005
Yes, you are correct. "Hollowbody electric" would be more descriptive but in the days of this recording, this was most definitely "electric" in the same vein as Charlie Christian's ES-150. Definitely not "acoustic electric" which is a contemporary development (past 20 years or so roughly) whereby there is an attempt to pickup the acoustic sound, using a piezo and or built in microphone. In fact many sound nothing like acoustic guitars but not everybody seems to notice...
ukepenviolin 7 months ago
@Facehoal I played violin - classical, country, string band, jazz, etc. until I had an injury left me a quadriplegic. I have seen and played with guitarists on electric, acoustic, and acoustic with pickups. I'm sure you're right about the guitar but it plays and sounds totally differently from his '30s recordings. His Selmer allows much smoother transitions note to note and helps him avoid the hard, clipped notes on his earlier guitars, rare as they were. The fluidity is totally different.
2ndviolinist 1 year ago
@2ndviolinist archtop bro....simple
poofer16 9 months ago
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God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
Littlewhitelephant 1 year ago
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God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
Littlewhitelephant 1 year ago
God would listen to Django or Charly Christian if he were to choose, but he would not listen to Billy Graham, course he'd know whats wrong with crusading.
Littlewhitelephant 1 year ago
Now in front of god, django and charly will sit together changing licks, while the popes and priests from below will hear them without understanding. That, my brothers and sisters, will be the very modest punishment of these popes and priests ! God (=nature) has a lot of mercy but not the church ! All church administratives will have bad luck !
Littlewhitelephant 1 year ago
@Facehoal From Standring’s playjazzguitar: In 1946, Reinhardt took up the electric guitar and toured America as a soloist with the Duke Ellington band.
From Shelton Hull: 1947 was the year that Django made his first recordings on electric guitar.
From DAVID RICKERT on allaboutjazz: Reinhardt's electric period, which encompassed the last few years of his life, is the black sheep of his catalog. He was still in fine form and had even incorporated elements of bebop into his playing style.
2ndviolinist 1 year ago
There is a mistake at 3:48.
FredsterTwister 1 year ago 3
I like the part where he plays guitar
hackleman 1 year ago 126
@hackleman unarguably the highlight of this video
shmike1984 1 year ago 2
@hackleman that's funny as hell...that's my favorite part too
don56texas 11 months ago
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@hackleman that's funny as hell...that's my favorite part too.
don56texas 11 months ago
@hackleman except with his cigarette as a pick
skelicles 10 months ago
Yes I'm sire ur correct dudemanwhoathe1st. I was simply trying to show my appreciation for such a wonderful guitarist who overcame many obstacles. Thx for the info. I just know the blues musicians were more revered in Europe than the US, probably because of race, even Jimi Hendrix! Am I correct on that assumption ?
mds1954 1 year ago
Also he only had two fingers on his left hand! He grew up in a wandering gypsy troupe, lost his fingers in a fire. A miracle he became such an influence for modern day guitarists, especially after he joined Stephanie Grappelli(violinist ) in Paris with a group. Then came to US during the 30's 40's or 50's. The establishment(whites) in US didn't appreciate jazz, similarly as they didn't appreciate blacks, ie, Blues musicians until they went to Europe first. Then America would allow them to perfo
mds1954 1 year ago
@mds1954 he had 4 fingers on his left hand...but his pinky and ring finger only have partial mobility. He only uses them for chords, and does all his soloing with only the other two fingers
TheGreaser05 1 year ago
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dudemanwhoathe1st 1 year ago
@mds1954 he had four fingers, and it was in 46' when he came here. Jazz had been big in america for around 30 years already. Jazz and blues both originated in the US, and were popularized there. Also, he was only here for a short while, he disliked it quite a bit.
dudemanwhoathe1st 1 year ago
Yay 1930-1959 music :D
pooter318 1 year ago
I am glad that even some of his music survived to be heard by this generation. Considering that he play guitar as a pure instrument without added sound effects from the various pedals and amplifier distortions available today. He was the greatest!
taterbodine1 1 year ago
he sounds so modern... genius is timeless
ge0metr1x 1 year ago
I emphatically disagree that this is the best phase of Django's career. That would definitely be the early days with The Hot Club Quintet of France. Check out the earlier recording with Stephane Grappelli of Honeysuckle Rose. I'm sure its on youtube somewhere.
packers56789 1 year ago
The best mix of american and european jazz ever.
woody1955 1 year ago
I think this is the best version of Honeysuckle Rose.
mmillner81 1 year ago 2
IAM GYPSY 2 AND IAM PROUD OF IT WHEN IT COMES TO MUSIC!!WE GT THE BIGGEST STYLE BLOOD AND EVERYTHING IN MUSIC!!!!!
melibass 1 year ago
Smooooth!!
justmusicandme 1 year ago
Django sounds better acoustic I think
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand He's best with Grappelli/Hot Club but his electric playing shows his ease with the instrument even more in some ways than his acoustic playing (despite his well known physical problems).
2ndviolinist 1 year ago 29
you'd think electric would be easier overall on his fingers, but for me the tone is just a little too piercing. It's still pretty damn amazing, his style that is, just not...quite as titanic as the records with Grappelli. Not that anything is.
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
@2ndviolinist his dynamics are exquisite on the electric as the electric gives him more range to experiment with different plucking styles and fret positions. it's beautiful.
elruchito 11 months ago
@HolyFerdinand Bullshit :)
juanmanuelmiguezz 1 year ago
@juanmanuelmiguezz Which part? You don't like Grappelli? probably because he's a gypsy. Fucking racist.
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand First im argentinian, so maybe im bad expressed.
I wanted to say that django is the best in all the guitars in the world.
I lo ve Grapelli
I'm black people
I'm Gypsy
So, i am not racist.
juanmanuelmiguezz 1 year ago 2
well, as far as being black and/or Argentine meaning you're not racist goes, I'm not touching that one. However, though Django is actually my favorite guitarist, I don't think it's fair to say he's the all-time best on electric, and I think he'd agree, since there have been so many great ones. However, when I looked into this more, I found another track off this album I like a lot. It's called Brazil, check it out if you haven't already.
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand I love all of django
juanmanuelmiguezz 1 year ago
@juanmanuelmiguezz are you gay too
jeremy1000100 1 year ago
@jeremy1000100 ...?
juanmanuelmiguezz 1 year ago
@juanmanuelmiguezz I'd just like to point out that what you are doesn't mean that you are not racist, it's who you are that will define that. There are Argentinian, Blacks, gypsys, etc, who are racist.
kilashl 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand Django was a gypsy, Grapelli, French.
2ndviolinist 9 months ago
@2ndviolinist
he was a belgian!
not french
dieterlos 7 months ago
@dieterlos Grappelli was born in Paris. I said Django was a gypsy, not that he was French. He was born in Belgium. Please read more carefully
2ndviolinist 7 months ago
@dieterlos Django was Gypsy and that word is derived from 'Egyptian'. The original Gypsy, like Reinhardt, had Arabic./Armenian/ etc blood.(Sinti)
Charles Delauney mentions this in his book on Django and he knew Reinhardt as friend for years. The Music of Gypsies, Flamenco, is heavily Arabic influenced.
taildragger53 5 months ago
@taildragger53 The Gypsies dudde do not really come from Egypt this is common mistake, they come from India. This derivation from the name its just a traditionally established misunderstanding
grgtompen 5 months ago
@grgtompen Ah yes, along the Sinti River. That is true to a point..although most Gypsies hate any connection with India. But that wasn't their first starting point. All those races started at Mesopotamia and worked their way through.
They were nomadic entertainers passing through the court of King Ahaseurus.
taildragger53 5 months ago
@taildragger53
just said that he was born in Belgium
every music is influenced by an other type of music
sometimes you can't really see the influence from the first evolution
(example) like if you're at 10 you sometimes can't hear the 1st evolution because it has been evolved to much
and you would also be surprised how much ''weird blood'' we got in our vains
:p
dieterlos 5 months ago
@dieterlos I agree with you 100%. Jazz is comprised of many different factors from all parts of the World. We are ALL mixed and come from the same area, if we trace back far enough.
To me, i see it as a huge advantage to blend as many music genres as possible.
taildragger53 5 months ago
@taildragger53
y if you listen to a lot of styles like jazz,blues,rock,metal and even some pop you can create youre own style which inspires others to use youre style ans so on and on :p
dieterlos 5 months ago
@dieterlos That is the best way really. To absorb from different sources. But,ironically, even if we study the styles of any from the Blues world or Rock World we find that Django was the 1st person they ever heard and gripped them (Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore , BB King ALL Django fans).
taildragger53 5 months ago
@dieterlos Nah Jazz,Metal and Funk is badass!!!
n64wilbert 5 months ago
@dieterlos In my mind Jazz is not a style but a process on the principles of improvisation listen to
(Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut) ,(Return To Forever (HiQ) 1974 - After the Cosmic Rain) and (Paco de Lucia - Entre dos aguas {1976} full video)
n64wilbert 5 months ago
It's something that Tommy Emmanuel gives homage to D.R. at his concerts.
modelleg 1 year ago 3
16 people don't know what music is.
ubershock0 1 year ago 3
Et après on reduira django a etre simplement un guitariste de "jazz manouche" ...
Mais dans cette enregistrement aucune "pompe " rythmique, juste un accompagnement de jazz americain de l'époque...
Pas seulement un guitariste jazz manouche, mais un des plus grands guitaristes de jazz au monde , surtout a partir de 53...
Merci django
zhervos 1 year ago
Don't now when this was recorded but judging from the sound of Duke's band I'd say it was after Django lost two fingers on his left hand meaning: He's playing this with only two fingers on his left hand. The picture obviously was taken before the fire. Personally, I like his acoustic sound better - it's cleaner, crisper and more "His" sound - to me. But I'll listen to anything he did. Greatness!
thestoryplease 1 year ago
@thestoryplease Actually, he lost use of his last two fingers at the age of 18. He had limitations of the fingers, and still made use of them when playing chords. His fingers looked halfway decent in this picture, but Django didn't start playing Jazz until after his injury...
IbanezShredder91 1 year ago
@thestoryplease He never lost any fingers (while alive). They were partially paralyzed. He held them just like that while playing afterwards. I believe this picture is well after the fire (which happened when he was 18).
badmuthahubbard 1 year ago
That guy isn't just PLAYING guitar...
He's LIVING the guitar. Listen, that guitar is just plain singing.
THAT is music.
davedetrick 1 year ago 4
Django is so kewl he looks like a cat with a cigar in its mouth that does nothing but lounge and play guitar all day
Power2theFlyingV 1 year ago
2:44 - 3:02 is so good
seerskater 1 year ago
what was that at 1:44 - 1:45? sounded like a trumpet
seerskater 1 year ago
And one of the greatest, no one else can do this!
Christer
chrishall1948 1 year ago