@vash47 grappelli did compliment django wonderfully, but no matter WHO django was playing with- a singer, or a sax player, whatever, HE made the song really special. there just simply was not another musician who played so expressively as D R, on ANY instrument. IMHO
@toti4 You are completely right, imho. They did one famous take of MINOR SWING though, where Grappelli did an exceptionally beautiful and inventive solo, that also Django approved with "Oh, yeah !". And after Django died, Grappelli became much better than during his Django times.
@muehlingdaina Thanks, competent ideas. But I figured out who I was thinking of. Not from a particular movie, but rather John Ventimiglia in the HBO series "Sopranos". Especially familiar looking to the slightly thinner and less haired Django.
here's a pic of him as Artie in "Sopranos", and remove the [], youtube wont allow direct links
And... something that isn't widely known, Django inspired Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath to keep playing after he had his finger tips cut off in an industrial accident.
@craigfromnewcastle Could you imagine the music world without these two? It would suck! And I whine because my fingers are too long to play some of my electronic organs. This is why I love youtube, you get to see how others overcome.
@craigfromnewcastle - Django (Jean Baptiste) had fingers on his left hand terribly mutilated after a fire. He devised his own way of fingering to overcome this. There is a French documentary on his that was made in the late-1950s. This film covers this period in Mr Reinhardt's life.
he was playing very good.. then he got a burning accident and has only 2 fingers on hes left hand and still playing as an god.. awsome..- in lag of a better word- not being great at english...awsome
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That is not Django clever but not real someone has gone to great links to imitate him but that is not him Djangos recordings were always played back slightly faster as were all recordings of that period someone has done that here in an attempt to duplicate his vibrato but the playing is not as good as anything Rhinehardt ever did his playing was magical and this aint..if this is Django it is his worst and not worthy of a tribute but I don't believe it is him.not even at sound check ha ha
@OriginalRubberJesus -Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal. I should have made that more clear.
@fastrnb Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal. I should have made that more clear.
@poulalas -Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 (not 2:45) the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal, knowing he was playing acoustic. I should have made that more clear. A couple people thought I was serious!
Hey control your language around here. This is youtube, and if you can't make pathetic slurs and animal innuendoes with racist overtones with a healthy dose of six grade impatience and jealousy, then you have no business peddling your wares around here...................
Completely forgot I wrote that. Paul Bowles was like that with his orchestrations, before he started his writing career. When he heard his stuff he did in the thirties, he had no idea how he did it....
His fingers were disfigured when his caravan burned down (I believe he was a violinist before this accident). He did still have limited use of his ring and pinky fingers but used them mostly for voicing chords.
i remember reading that he played banjo as a child, hence the picture near the beginning.. so he MUST have had a natural talent for music: violin, banjo, and guitar!
@vash47 disagree... sure stephane was great and together they were great, but with steph it made it always slightly effeminate. ok it's nice and quite lovely swing nothing against Steph, he was just amazing , but sometimes you want a bit of rough , no? n'est pas?
@vash47 ???? they could play together and could play without each other. Each on is great with his own instrument.. Django created the Gypsy Jazz dear not Grapelli
django was amazing agreed, another great player bit like him if ya haven't heard is oscar aleman, theres lots of others too, but he reminds me of django a lot.
He used two for soloing (index and middle) the ring and little fingers were crippled and he taught himself in eighteen months a technique that allowed him to fret with those two fingers... there is some footage on youtube of him playing and you will see how he used them.
I would like to know what is everybody's problem with Clapton. i bet people who doesn't like Clapton never listened to Live at the Fillmore or Layla album.. try to play his Derek and the Dominos stuff and you'll see complexity as well.
My opinion about Django Reinhardt: the greatest guitarist of all time
Yeah I know he's one of my favourites. Even with Stephane Grapelli was amazing. Good to see another Karl on you tube. I've talked to a Karl before here on you tube and your the second Karl I've seen on you tube. All the best.
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How many Gypsy's do you know who can play like this? All the Gypsys I know are Irish and they love beating the shit out of each other! If you gave one of them a guitar they would take it to fight to smash over someones head!
Pure magic. Hendrix and Reinhardt played different instruments - although both had the same number of strings. Not sure what Reinhardt would do on an electric guitar, although the sound would probably drive him nuts. Reinhardt: pure beauty. Henrix: earthshattering.
anyone who says hendrix was 'pathetic' obviously has something wrong with them. I normally dont mind the disabled, but you sir need to be cleansed from our genepool.
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Hendrix was a big django and used the thumb alot like django did for chords .... anyone that can play guitar wouldn't compare Hendrix with django.. Hendrix was a pathetic guitarist and only junkies would say he is the best
i bet you think eric clapton is a great guitarist .i play gypsy jazz guitar so i know better than you ..yes we all grew up playing hendrix but .when you can play gypsy jazz ..hendrix style is way behind
Actually I don't like Clapton. The fact that you play gypsy jazz probably means that you like that style and not because it is difficult to master. I like it too but I'm more into Hendrix but I have total respect for other styles like Gypsy Jazz and went to concert as well. I'm just a guitarnut. It's about what appeals to you most, whether it is rock, jzaa, blues
It isn't about who plays faster or has a better technique. If you play blues really fast, it just doesn't sound right. So Hendrix didn't have a need for speed though he had fast licks as well. Hendrix's music has stood the test of time so his style is not way behind as you said. You should respect Hendrix like I respect Django. Just listen to the music and enjoy it, no more no less. You're acting as if I'm saying Django was inferior to hendrix but I absolutely didn't.
check you out ....oh you have a gay guitar and hide behind effects boxes .your a amature play some gypsy or flamenco..the reason i never post videos is becase people like you ..i dont need to i havent got a ego complex
I'm just posting for fun, I have had that guitar since i was a teenager and it's still good quality. I never said i was good because I'm nothing special. I can't play Gypsy Jazz and never said I could. I don't hide behind boxes, i just use them to get sounds I like. I wish I could play Gypsy Jazz or Flamenco but i'm not good enough for that. Try to respect people who love Hendrix or other players for that matter. People who say a guitarist is the best simply state a preference. Both were unique.
Great vid! Can anyone tell me the name of the song played throughout? Thanks.
Oh and if you want to hear some great post-Django gypsy jazz, check out the Marc Atkinson Trio - although their videos on here aren't close to their best material. Just saw them live and was blown away!
ironlungbongrip: I agree with you 100%. I loved Jimi and saw him many times onstage
but comparing him with Django is ludicrous. Two different styles of music for a start.
Jimi was essentially an unbelievable psychedelic BLUES guitarist. If he'd lived who knows how he would've matured.(?) But Django could play anything and all at great odds with his handicap. The test is ..take away the 100 watt amp and see what you can do with an acoustic. It's easy to hide behind wattage.
It would've have interesting to see what Hendrix would have been able to do if he had studied music theory and learned to read music. the great one's, in my opinion allready know theory, by ear.
edchuckndoug: Yes, i believe Hendrix was about to learn theory (classical & jazz). He always wished he had and stated this several times. He was about to embark on a jazz journey with Gil Evans' Orchestra but died just before. But you are right; Django, Wes, Tal Farlowe and even Allan Holdworth never read a note of music. They knew no restrictions.
Jimi had some good acoustic numbers, and some nice clean electric too though. But I agree, they are very dufferent styles and it would be hard to compare them, and I doubt they would compare each other anyway. Both great musicians, enough said I think.
ironlungbongrip; I had a friend called Ike Isaacs (famous guitarist/teacher) who met Django many times in the 40s. He said only two guitarists stunned him in his life...one was Wes Montgomery and the other was Django. Ivor Mairants, who had loan of Djangos 'Selmer-M' for yrs, said the same. Andres Segovia scorned jazz guitarists until Django played a classical piece for hours . Andres asked him "where's the sheet music for that?" Django laughed " Oh, I was just improvising"
I've heard this too. Which bring us back to the age old question, are classically trained musicians better to play with? I have played with both and I will take the untrained improviser any day of the week over the classically trained musician as they tend to not be able to improvise. Django's playing is amazing especially since he was missing parts of his fingers from a fire.
edchuckndoug; Gypsy guitarists are gifted! They nearly all play by ear and their technique is astounding. Just consider Stochelo Rosenberg. Unfortunately most of us don't possess this natural talent and are left to analyse and learn theory. I don't think Django actually had parts of fingers missing (excuse my impertinance). The 3rd & 4th were fused together because the skin had shrunk. He was able to use them for some chords.
Each brings something different to the table. "Native" jazz musicians, or untrained musicians whatever, are usually more fammiliar with improvising and etc.
In classical music we do have improvising, but it is very much different than in jazz, much more subtle, not direct changes to the notes and melody etc, but its there. That and the amount of control you need to convey them, thats what classically trained musicians are good at.
Jean luc ponty says hes glad he got training for this.
In the 1990s Woody Allen directed an excellent movie "Sweet and Lowdown" about Reinhardt, played by Sean Penn. If you like Reinhardt, you'll love the movie, lots of wonderful songs throughout.
Django played the banjo when he was a kid but was in a fire when he was 18... his fingers where badly burnt. His third and fourth where paralyzed and fused together. Doctors said he would never play the banjo again so he bought a guitar and learnt to play that instead.. haha.. at least i think that's how the story goes. what a guy.
I don't know if he was Gypsy , eGyptano , Magyar , manuche or a creature from outer space and to tell you the truth I don't care. What I know is that his music is wonderfull and it belongs to every person on the planet. Music has no borders.
Thank you very much...
Rai06for 1 month ago
Chet Atkins met him once when he performed in Chicago ..CChet went backstage and was so awestruck he couldnt talk ...he was one of Chets favorites ..
mlkemper 1 month ago
looks like steve hackett
fmogiba 2 months ago
@vash47 grappelli did compliment django wonderfully, but no matter WHO django was playing with- a singer, or a sax player, whatever, HE made the song really special. there just simply was not another musician who played so expressively as D R, on ANY instrument. IMHO
toti4 4 months ago
@toti4 You are completely right, imho. They did one famous take of MINOR SWING though, where Grappelli did an exceptionally beautiful and inventive solo, that also Django approved with "Oh, yeah !". And after Django died, Grappelli became much better than during his Django times.
Littlewhitelephant 3 months ago
He looks precisely like an actor in a movie, but I cant for the heck of it remember what it is! Any ideas?
whannes 5 months ago
@whannes Either William Powell or Clark Gable??
muehlingdaina 4 months ago
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@whannes Either William Powell or Clark Gable??
muehlingdaina 4 months ago
@whannes William Powell or Clark Gable??
muehlingdaina 4 months ago
@muehlingdaina Thanks, competent ideas. But I figured out who I was thinking of. Not from a particular movie, but rather John Ventimiglia in the HBO series "Sopranos". Especially familiar looking to the slightly thinner and less haired Django.
here's a pic of him as Artie in "Sopranos", and remove the [], youtube wont allow direct links
imgur.[]com/pWycY
whannes 4 months ago
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@whannes William Powell or Clark Gable??
muehlingdaina 4 months ago
best musician of the 30s? I dare someone to recommend better!
GeneralArmorus 5 months ago
so great
mrswingfan007 6 months ago
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MrEarthJR 7 months ago
yeaa das ist der bruder von mein papo !!
KiLLAHz88 7 months ago
If Django played a solid body electric which would he have chosen? Which amp?
My guess?
...I'm still thinking.
paulj0557 7 months ago
@paulj0557 A Gibson 335 into a Fender Twin Reverb.
roadappleband 6 months ago
@roadappleband Isn't a 335 hollow body?
paulj0557 6 months ago
LoL 0:05 Django's trollface :3
pongboy1100 8 months ago
And... something that isn't widely known, Django inspired Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath to keep playing after he had his finger tips cut off in an industrial accident.
craigfromnewcastle 8 months ago
@craigfromnewcastle Could you imagine the music world without these two? It would suck! And I whine because my fingers are too long to play some of my electronic organs. This is why I love youtube, you get to see how others overcome.
paulj0557 6 months ago
@paulj0557
I would have thought long fingers would be an asset in keyboard playing?
But yes - 2 inspirational people for sure (Django and Tony Iommi)
craigfromnewcastle 6 months ago
@craigfromnewcastle - Django (Jean Baptiste) had fingers on his left hand terribly mutilated after a fire. He devised his own way of fingering to overcome this. There is a French documentary on his that was made in the late-1950s. This film covers this period in Mr Reinhardt's life.
DBHuntington 5 months ago
@DBHuntington
It would be nice to watch the documentary, but I do know what happened to him so I don't understand why you're telling me
craigfromnewcastle 5 months ago
Un grand d'univers pourtant évité parfois , de temps en temps , souvent et ...jamais de ceux qui ont pu côtoyer ....
281057ep 8 months ago
Legend
dinizthemxking 10 months ago
..thank you, django.
IonMabun 11 months ago
Django would have been 101 years old today. The music still sounds young though.
jmsbk12345 1 year ago
i am learning how to play this by ear, it's really interesting and much of fun.
4tt1 1 year ago
ahhhhhh............like cool water to a man just back from the desert....
brahmin21 1 year ago
Love you Django, always here!!!!
eljaable 1 year ago
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the trick is to click to tubifier [dot] com to download the high quality mp3 for this song.
crook5090 1 year ago
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The Best Ever! Django Reinhardt
schukaBearo 1 year ago
the best ever!
mandreassi1 1 year ago
he was playing very good.. then he got a burning accident and has only 2 fingers on hes left hand and still playing as an god.. awsome..- in lag of a better word- not being great at english...awsome
silasrs2 1 year ago
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afromafro 1 year ago
this is definitely Django!!! the song is called Echoes of Spain and is quite famous actually.
ratchichou 2 years ago
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That is not Django clever but not real someone has gone to great links to imitate him but that is not him Djangos recordings were always played back slightly faster as were all recordings of that period someone has done that here in an attempt to duplicate his vibrato but the playing is not as good as anything Rhinehardt ever did his playing was magical and this aint..if this is Django it is his worst and not worthy of a tribute but I don't believe it is him.not even at sound check ha ha
nonukia3000 2 years ago
your such an expert seeing as you cant even spell his name correctly!
vernonbigsby 2 years ago
sorry bud this is definitely django. its just an improvisation not an actual song.
micahxspence 2 years ago
notice how the description says.... "in memory of the genius Django Reindhardt" meaning this piece is in tribute to him
Ugazful 2 years ago
there was no soundcheck
awesomewelles90 1 year ago
not bad for a guy with only 2 useable fingers on his left hand
steveisler 2 years ago
What is the name of this song
jerbearman47 2 years ago
I like at 2:35 when he kicks in the distortion pedal!
cornsnag 2 years ago
distortion pedals weren't invented until after he died
OriginalRubberJesus 2 years ago 2
@OriginalRubberJesus I'm pretty sure he was joking
grover176 2 years ago
@OriginalRubberJesus -Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal. I should have made that more clear.
cornsnag 1 year ago
distortion pedal? Django barely used amplification.
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@fastrnb Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal. I should have made that more clear.
cornsnag 1 year ago
hehe
Stingerfyle 2 years ago
@cornsnag This session was unplugged! They didn't use amplifiers at that time. This is a pre-war 78 tour disc from '38-'39. ;)
poulalas 1 year ago
@poulalas -Yeah, I was making a joke. At 2:35 (not 2:45) the mic gets overdriven and it distorts. I was making a joke that he kicked in the distortion pedal, knowing he was playing acoustic. I should have made that more clear. A couple people thought I was serious!
cornsnag 1 year ago
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venusfly9108 2 years ago
Minor Swing
Sweet Georgia Brown.
Either one.
Though i love minor swing.
This guy plays with 2 fingers, due to a house fire when he was little.
Hes Les Paul's, Jimmy Page's, and Tony Iommi's along with thousands of other favorite guitarist.
sharrer2 2 years ago 4
its 3 fingers... if you count the thumb
Woolstones 2 years ago
In the solos he cant really uses the thumb though.
But i get your point.
sharrer2 2 years ago
i think his best work was never recorded
PouKii 2 years ago
I just can't see how he did this with his crippled hand of his, since a lot of the stuff he plays is hard to play, even with a healthy one.
Incredible and amazing every time.
Mazinager 2 years ago 2
Sounds like it is mostly in E Phrygian Dominant/A Harmonic minor...
tragicomicus1 2 years ago
Isn't that just a beautiful progression? they go so well.
MrMattHefner 2 years ago
hes actually right. well with the phrygian atleast. i have no knowledge in that kind of stuff, but i know what phrygian is and i do hear it.
jespero93 2 years ago
Hey control your language around here. This is youtube, and if you can't make pathetic slurs and animal innuendoes with racist overtones with a healthy dose of six grade impatience and jealousy, then you have no business peddling your wares around here...................
sclogse1 2 years ago 46
@sclogse1 Your comment made my day!! :))
expat1250090 1 year ago
@sclogse1 I dunno who that was directed at, but that was one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Just about sums up yt pretty succinctly!
fennessy1980 8 months ago
@fennessy1980
Completely forgot I wrote that. Paul Bowles was like that with his orchestrations, before he started his writing career. When he heard his stuff he did in the thirties, he had no idea how he did it....
sclogse1 8 months ago
i want to learn the spirit of djengo reinhardt's music
asw34wefdsf 2 years ago 4
could someone tell me what this tune is called ? or where i could find it .. thnx
funkyMonk1985 2 years ago
its called Echos of Spain, great song
merrowyerrowa 2 years ago
I love the part that starts at: 2:44
I feel like I'm am going to see god
lanks221 2 years ago
Grande Django. Unico e inimitabile.
gabri3l367 2 years ago
Lol thats amazing how he played with 2 fingers because his other 2 were I think like melted together and couldnt move or something like that
2wxyz42production 2 years ago
His fingers were disfigured when his caravan burned down (I believe he was a violinist before this accident). He did still have limited use of his ring and pinky fingers but used them mostly for voicing chords.
moot23 2 years ago 3
i remember reading that he played banjo as a child, hence the picture near the beginning.. so he MUST have had a natural talent for music: violin, banjo, and guitar!
FaustyFob 2 years ago
he played a 6 string banjo. same as guitar :)
samuelshepard 2 years ago
a true musician one that can feel what he plays
strumfellow 2 years ago
As amazing Django is, his greatest hits wouldn't have been anything without Grappelli.
They complimented each other perfectly.
vash47 2 years ago 22
no way he woulda found a way like this song rite now
bugsta2012 2 years ago
@vash47 - Stephan Grappelli said that he learned his style of jazz violin directly from Django's guitar playing!
Shamagogue 1 year ago
@vash47 I agree with the beginning and end of your statement. Not the middle.
bobslob69 1 year ago
@vash47 ..Complemented, in this case.
SpeedyNeutrino43 1 year ago
@vash47 disagree... sure stephane was great and together they were great, but with steph it made it always slightly effeminate. ok it's nice and quite lovely swing nothing against Steph, he was just amazing , but sometimes you want a bit of rough , no? n'est pas?
zzxxyy543 1 year ago
@vash47 ???? they could play together and could play without each other. Each on is great with his own instrument.. Django created the Gypsy Jazz dear not Grapelli
Chatelmaster 8 months ago
django was amazing agreed, another great player bit like him if ya haven't heard is oscar aleman, theres lots of others too, but he reminds me of django a lot.
demeneye 2 years ago
Beautiful Django!
scobdopularp 2 years ago 2
the best European jazzman of all times
goyimi 2 years ago 3
He's born in Belgium , i'm so proud of it
arioz1 2 years ago 2
yep, echoes of spain
mahoose6 2 years ago
its echoes of spain
fenderboy88 2 years ago
I think the begining of this song was sampled by A Tribe called Quest in the song "I left my wallet in El Segundo"
Django Is Amazing and to think he could only use 3 fingers on left hand.
Dante10606 2 years ago
No, sorry. Completely different song. An equally 'spanish' sounding guitar theme, but a totally different song.
funstuff2006 2 years ago
He used two for soloing (index and middle) the ring and little fingers were crippled and he taught himself in eighteen months a technique that allowed him to fret with those two fingers... there is some footage on youtube of him playing and you will see how he used them.
achcautli 2 years ago
many people doesn't honor this music... but this is the music
Vekki64 2 years ago
great ,emmit ray is crying again
great piece of music
DJMGREEN1984 2 years ago 3
Beautiful pictures that I've never seen before, thanks
celinelareau 2 years ago
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Superb, a cool cat to boot. Thanks for the upload.
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Cheerio,
Bruno "Brewster" Leicht
BrunoJazzmanLeicht 2 years ago 8
i love that tune!
chgodong 2 years ago 3
He passed away very young. 43 years old.
codonauta 3 years ago
lach alleine?
zeboz06 3 years ago
ich bin verwandt mit ihm :D
zeboz06 3 years ago
und ich bin sein nachbar
G60318 3 years ago 2
Yes we will always Miss him..
Jazzwayze 2 years ago
GENIUS!
lacvieux 3 years ago
theres a few pics on here like at 1:46 where it looks like theres a pick up on the maccaferri.Anyone know anything about that?
filmcrew1551 3 years ago
Do a search for Stimer on Ebay or google. They are still available
ithamar1 3 years ago
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Guitarmike31787 3 years ago
it's a stimer pickup
maskits 2 years ago 3
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The GUITAR GOD
he played with TWO fingers!!
don't ever try to compare Django with anyone else, it would be a bad joke
marm847 3 years ago 2
Django Reinhardt was a Gypsy with Heart and Soul...
His Musik is Legendary
xemnas7777777 3 years ago 4
I love to transcribe music
musictranscription 3 years ago
could you please transcribe donna lee
kbilbou 3 years ago
I would like to know what is everybody's problem with Clapton. i bet people who doesn't like Clapton never listened to Live at the Fillmore or Layla album.. try to play his Derek and the Dominos stuff and you'll see complexity as well.
My opinion about Django Reinhardt: the greatest guitarist of all time
quimeraejaculada 3 years ago 3
the greatest
Lorando2oo8 3 years ago
the first 14 seconds sound like the "Up the flag" music for Mario xD
6Elegantornado9 3 years ago
the greatest ever,in the most fitting period in history for his music
nomis777 3 years ago
ECHOES OF SPAIN
DokterBoeiend 3 years ago
Does anyone know the name of this piece?
flclisfun 3 years ago
it's definitely one of his improvisations, theres not that many, thats as much as i can narrow it down
darekrossman 3 years ago
oh oh its called ECHOES OF SPAIN
darekrossman 3 years ago
Thanks.
flclisfun 3 years ago
Yes, i have this question...what is the song ?
Xiphosss 3 years ago
what's the name of this song??
misscroatie 3 years ago
Legend a very important guitarist of our generation.
KarloR27 3 years ago
Sorry i clicked thumbs down instead of up! I agree 100% he was very influential and dosn't get the respect he deserves..
karl198 3 years ago
Yeah I know he's one of my favourites. Even with Stephane Grapelli was amazing. Good to see another Karl on you tube. I've talked to a Karl before here on you tube and your the second Karl I've seen on you tube. All the best.
KarloR27 3 years ago
My grandad was a good friend of Django's brother, Joseph, and knew Django fairly well too. I love this. Although Nuage is my all time favourite
fancyflier 3 years ago
i am proud to be a gypsy...i love our music!!! django is the best
mastaAnt1 3 years ago 3
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How many Gypsy's do you know who can play like this? All the Gypsys I know are Irish and they love beating the shit out of each other! If you gave one of them a guitar they would take it to fight to smash over someones head!
Punorss 3 years ago
hahahahaha!
mit0vski 3 years ago
Yes he was one of the first to put the guitar on the map!
bhuygen 3 years ago
Thanks for posting you did this clip really well.
Echoes Of Spain.
meisterslx 3 years ago
Pure magic. Hendrix and Reinhardt played different instruments - although both had the same number of strings. Not sure what Reinhardt would do on an electric guitar, although the sound would probably drive him nuts. Reinhardt: pure beauty. Henrix: earthshattering.
jazzflutist 3 years ago
he is amazing still wonder how he was able to play with only two fingers
dropmolly143 3 years ago
anyone who says hendrix was 'pathetic' obviously has something wrong with them. I normally dont mind the disabled, but you sir need to be cleansed from our genepool.
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Hendrix was a big django and used the thumb alot like django did for chords .... anyone that can play guitar wouldn't compare Hendrix with django.. Hendrix was a pathetic guitarist and only junkies would say he is the best
guitaneman 3 years ago
idiot!
hesmon 3 years ago
i bet you think eric clapton is a great guitarist .i play gypsy jazz guitar so i know better than you ..yes we all grew up playing hendrix but .when you can play gypsy jazz ..hendrix style is way behind
guitaneman 3 years ago
Actually I don't like Clapton. The fact that you play gypsy jazz probably means that you like that style and not because it is difficult to master. I like it too but I'm more into Hendrix but I have total respect for other styles like Gypsy Jazz and went to concert as well. I'm just a guitarnut. It's about what appeals to you most, whether it is rock, jzaa, blues
hesmon 3 years ago 3
It isn't about who plays faster or has a better technique. If you play blues really fast, it just doesn't sound right. So Hendrix didn't have a need for speed though he had fast licks as well. Hendrix's music has stood the test of time so his style is not way behind as you said. You should respect Hendrix like I respect Django. Just listen to the music and enjoy it, no more no less. You're acting as if I'm saying Django was inferior to hendrix but I absolutely didn't.
hesmon 3 years ago 3
blues played really fast is the best!
MentalSentinel 3 years ago
You mean the yngwie way. not my favourite. I like some fast blues licks. but you can overdo it. Blues on speed, no thank you!
hesmon 3 years ago
I mean the SRV way
MentalSentinel 3 years ago
Okay I can live with that.
hesmon 3 years ago
check you out ....oh you have a gay guitar and hide behind effects boxes .your a amature play some gypsy or flamenco..the reason i never post videos is becase people like you ..i dont need to i havent got a ego complex
guitaneman 3 years ago
I'm just posting for fun, I have had that guitar since i was a teenager and it's still good quality. I never said i was good because I'm nothing special. I can't play Gypsy Jazz and never said I could. I don't hide behind boxes, i just use them to get sounds I like. I wish I could play Gypsy Jazz or Flamenco but i'm not good enough for that. Try to respect people who love Hendrix or other players for that matter. People who say a guitarist is the best simply state a preference. Both were unique.
hesmon 3 years ago 3
yeah but reinhardt only played his solos with 2 of his left hand's fingers because they were badly burned and could only use them for chords.
sunset261 2 years ago
Great vid! Can anyone tell me the name of the song played throughout? Thanks.
Oh and if you want to hear some great post-Django gypsy jazz, check out the Marc Atkinson Trio - although their videos on here aren't close to their best material. Just saw them live and was blown away!
ThomasRiekki 3 years ago
It's "Echoes of Spain"
groofzo 3 years ago
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jimi hendrix its better
martinmaserati 3 years ago
well done cock
bridgfordbill 3 years ago
different . both are my preferred guitarists .
tenebrae654789 3 years ago 2
1.Jimi Hendrix had no handicap in his hand
2.he is definetely NOT better
3.i would have liked to see him trying to play a django reinhardt song...
this would have been a shame for him...
jimi hendrix was a new!guitar hero because he played revolutionary and very "independent"^^ but he was not better than django reinhardt
dasrotekamel 3 years ago 4
i can play more django songs perfectly than hendrix songs
lickmycrotchet 3 years ago
stuff the maserati up your ass(i like ferrari :), django rest in peace my friend...
even hendrix embraced the original gypsy guitarist as superior regardless of what Some of his dumb fans think...
i happen to be a huge hendrix fan, but django is on another level entirely
who else could show up segovia with an improv song?(some of you know the story im talking about)
rip hendrix & django
ironlungbongrip 3 years ago
ironlungbongrip: I agree with you 100%. I loved Jimi and saw him many times onstage
but comparing him with Django is ludicrous. Two different styles of music for a start.
Jimi was essentially an unbelievable psychedelic BLUES guitarist. If he'd lived who knows how he would've matured.(?) But Django could play anything and all at great odds with his handicap. The test is ..take away the 100 watt amp and see what you can do with an acoustic. It's easy to hide behind wattage.
taildragger51 3 years ago
It would've have interesting to see what Hendrix would have been able to do if he had studied music theory and learned to read music. the great one's, in my opinion allready know theory, by ear.
edchuckndoug 3 years ago
edchuckndoug: Yes, i believe Hendrix was about to learn theory (classical & jazz). He always wished he had and stated this several times. He was about to embark on a jazz journey with Gil Evans' Orchestra but died just before. But you are right; Django, Wes, Tal Farlowe and even Allan Holdworth never read a note of music. They knew no restrictions.
taildragger51 3 years ago
Jimi had some good acoustic numbers, and some nice clean electric too though. But I agree, they are very dufferent styles and it would be hard to compare them, and I doubt they would compare each other anyway. Both great musicians, enough said I think.
bnapoleonc123 3 years ago
ironlungbongrip; I had a friend called Ike Isaacs (famous guitarist/teacher) who met Django many times in the 40s. He said only two guitarists stunned him in his life...one was Wes Montgomery and the other was Django. Ivor Mairants, who had loan of Djangos 'Selmer-M' for yrs, said the same. Andres Segovia scorned jazz guitarists until Django played a classical piece for hours . Andres asked him "where's the sheet music for that?" Django laughed " Oh, I was just improvising"
taildragger51 3 years ago 4
I've heard this too. Which bring us back to the age old question, are classically trained musicians better to play with? I have played with both and I will take the untrained improviser any day of the week over the classically trained musician as they tend to not be able to improvise. Django's playing is amazing especially since he was missing parts of his fingers from a fire.
edchuckndoug 3 years ago
edchuckndoug; Gypsy guitarists are gifted! They nearly all play by ear and their technique is astounding. Just consider Stochelo Rosenberg. Unfortunately most of us don't possess this natural talent and are left to analyse and learn theory. I don't think Django actually had parts of fingers missing (excuse my impertinance). The 3rd & 4th were fused together because the skin had shrunk. He was able to use them for some chords.
(mostly augmented)
taildragger51 3 years ago 3
Each brings something different to the table. "Native" jazz musicians, or untrained musicians whatever, are usually more fammiliar with improvising and etc.
In classical music we do have improvising, but it is very much different than in jazz, much more subtle, not direct changes to the notes and melody etc, but its there. That and the amount of control you need to convey them, thats what classically trained musicians are good at.
Jean luc ponty says hes glad he got training for this.
PlatypusofCalifornia 3 years ago
Ike isaacs Knows his shit when it comes to jazz Wes Mongodery is so good it's not even funny!
Deejthemyth 3 years ago
durgs
johnwashere22 3 years ago
In the 1990s Woody Allen directed an excellent movie "Sweet and Lowdown" about Reinhardt, played by Sean Penn. If you like Reinhardt, you'll love the movie, lots of wonderful songs throughout.
JohnnyPhyl 3 years ago
Actually, the movie "Sweet and Lowdown" was about Emmet Ray (Sean Penn's character) Emmet Ray worshiped Django Reinhardt.
NickTrousers 3 years ago 5
I appreciate the courteous correction--you are absolutely right. Thanks a bunch--it appears I need to watch the movie again. (Phyl)
JohnnyPhyl 3 years ago
does anyone have any tabs that are actually right
endubhx 3 years ago
Acutally he was from Belgium originally.
hortojc 3 years ago
Django played the banjo when he was a kid but was in a fire when he was 18... his fingers where badly burnt. His third and fourth where paralyzed and fused together. Doctors said he would never play the banjo again so he bought a guitar and learnt to play that instead.. haha.. at least i think that's how the story goes. what a guy.
ApexBozo 3 years ago 6
echoes of spain
Kobben 3 years ago
the name od the song please !!!!!
el nombre de la cancion por favor!!!!
silentknive86 3 years ago
hes a gypsy from france who played with two fingers, a genious on a guitar. probably one of the best guitarists that existed.
supercochon4 3 years ago
LOVE DJANGO KIND REGARD LASZLO
laszlosirsom 3 years ago
I WANT TO LERN MORE ABOUT THIS GUY!!! IF SOME ONE COULD TELL ME:D(comment on mi chanel)
CrAzZzZzZy94 3 years ago
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romsinto 3 years ago
a true genius and inspiration.
TheBlackListed 3 years ago
I don't know if he was Gypsy , eGyptano , Magyar , manuche or a creature from outer space and to tell you the truth I don't care. What I know is that his music is wonderfull and it belongs to every person on the planet. Music has no borders.
gregxatz 3 years ago 7
He was Manouche from France from what I've read.
albatros777 3 years ago