Django Reinhardt Clip 1945

[mrumsower]

just imagine, thoes people got to dance, to Django, live, wow.

[CrispinDan]

What movie this from?

[Zeratul723]

Sickest man alive, right there. Damn.

[allenlewis]

All of his lead work was with two fingers, for cords he was able to use the third finger and thumb. And with altered cords first used by Freddie Green in big band he had it all going on.

[sugizo1]

@allenlewis due to a slight disability on my right hand, i play actually like that , tech wise. im proud to be able to play with the same kind of technique as him. :) although in a tad different style/musical context. :)

DJANGO RULES!

[JazzAnnon]

@guitarbutt la main droite.

[MsMarc1234]

@guitarbutt 3. He used his thumb too.

[199252208]

@guitarbutt gypsy talent !!!

[stromashdash]

tough times yet

 jolly music :)

[Jackolafrite]

Allez tous voir sur youtube la vidéo: "La vie Django" !!!

with english subtiles for the noobs !

[lovejazz42]

Can someone tell me from what documentary this is?

Thanks for posting and if you have more of his playing rather, it would be greatly appreciated.

[London2272]

The devil saw how well Django played and got jealous, so he took two of his fingers off him to even things out a little.

[feminale]

Mashed Potatoes!

[Twinhit]

Some people dance the floor with their two feet. Django danced the fretboard with with his two fingers as though they were the feet of Fred Astair.

That's determination and dedication in spite of his accident.

Would be interesting to see some of today's best guitar players play with two fingers tied.

[tizioincognito95]

@Twinhit today's best players can't play his stuff even with all of their fingers

[2Funky4me]

@guitarbutt

Mind over matter...that's all

[indigohiphop]

@guitarbutt he invented a technique which is still taught in music schools today, all around the world =)

[Skeletty1710]

lol this song appears in Mafia: all honours to the Maestro- I bow low for this genius,

thanks for the vid

[jmsbk12345]

Django would have been 101 years old today. The music still sounds fresh and young.

[GypsyjazzWorkshopnet]

@guitarbutt

... practise, practise, practise and again practise!

Django spent more then 1 1/2 years in hospital after his accident ... he just used his time intensely with disregarded faith and power to achieve this …

[busessuck1]

haha the dude at the start was all like "girl I'm gonna show you how its done"

... but then he realised the lindy hop isn't as easy as it looked in hellzapoppin'

[NAThan9871]

@guitarbutt He was just a genius. He created the gypsy jazz style.

[enakrium]

@guitarbutt: cause he doesn't let anything physical limit his imagination/

[mccboisbois]

amazing

[itsaguinness]

@guitarbutt he was playing another track someone just added this track

[aminfidel]

another misleading title to a video that is Django but the sound track has nothing to do with what we are watching.

[guitar19904]

hes the segovia of jazz guitar. i shall school from him in the futur

[fermutante]

Que capo, con dos deditos!!!

[jenzeppelin]

what a fantastic clip...the dancing is a bonus

[blah148]

just posted a new django reinhardt lesson video for guitar

check it out!

[freeradicals]

0:28 Eat Moar Acid

[slipperypessimist]

amazing

[potatoepeter1]

Und ab dafür.......... *****5

[Jgrennier]

The original shred guitarist lol

[ruffian1868]

Good ol' Joseph strumming away behind him. An underated guitarist IMHO !

[threefingers333]

so true.....

[1019drummer]

amazing.....

[lexdepex]

whats the me of this tune?

[drewenstevenson11]

yea what is the name of this tune!

[lexdepex]

I figured it out; it's "Echoes of france" or "La Marseillaise". Beautiful solo...

[1mommas]

God must have loved Django.

He was waaaay before his time.

Music, the instant release from a world of woes.

[misternogreco]

Legend ...

[noutjie]

he's a god

[piraan2]

Because he made hes own style to play.

[TheKidGuitarist]

Devotion?

[Finkldorkin]

Much.

[gospelmusiclover48]

more jango less nigers

[eamonia]

If you're gonna be racist at least learn to spell properly. You already sound stupid enough. Oh, and fuck you. Seriously dude, kill yourself.

[gospelmusiclover48]

I BET you can't make me!

[VPanzerDivisionen]

this song is included in "Mafia"(the game) soundtrack?

[EsPlb]

I think yes, great artist an great game!!

[MyManDan]

i wanted to see more of django! not people buying loaves of bread

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@MyManDan I remember my grandmother would say "Eat. Eat. People are starving in Europe."

[suroj]

@MyManDan People bought bread instead of Iphones back then

[NewMusicSpacequake]

@suroj people eat iphones?

[fujiyoshi]

@NewMusicSpacequake I did before.

[CrispinDan]

@MyManDan

shows culture of the time

[rpizell]

man its hard to match this kind of intensity and heart. I dont hear many jazz guitar players today on this kind of level.

[taildragger51]

rpizell: You won't hear playing like this ever again because Reinhardt was unique. Even if you hear someone similar one has to keep in mind they 're playing without disability. Django went on to influence every other great player though like Wes Montgomery & Kenny Burrell.

[rpizell]

thanks for the lesson dude.

[tornado543]

the good old mafia music;-)

[gabri3l367]

Stupendo !!! Peccato che è troppo corto.

[HaeXtXa]

0:12

he plays with only 2 fingers

[madhatter0787]

it's because when he was young the ring and pinky fingers on his left hand were horribly burned in a campfire. If you notice, they're not much but bony knubs, and there's quite a bit of scar tissue on his hand. He could use them to some extent, but some things were just easier for him to use only two fingers to play.

[HaeXtXa]

i know

[thijsmolenaar]

not a campfire, a camper fire, his 'motorhome' burned down due to film processing chemicals which they had lying around.

[madhatter0787]

ahh. the more you know! thanks!

[thesethreekings]

It wasn't a campfire, it was the caravan that he lived in that burned down, he recieved serious burns over a third of his body and could only use his burnt fingers from then on in chords. I can't believe he didn't get RSI in his able fingers!

[taildragger51]

Yes, according to Charles Delauney's book on Django the caravan was filled with paper flowers that Django's wife used to create. It caught light and DR rescued his wife from the blaze.(he was 18 yrs old then) Drs wanted to amputate his fingers and left leg but he refused. Took him over a year to recuperate.

[cactaceous]

It's crazy but almost the same thing happened to Les Paul, whose wife flipped over the car they were traveling in while he was sick and severely damaged his shoulder and hand. Dr's wanted to amputate, took him over a year for it to heal. Not comparing Les to Django, because that's not fair but both master of the six strings.

[taildragger51]

cactaceous: Yes, you're absolutely right. I think that was around 1948 or so when Les Paul had that accident. Les was a genius also in every way. It was an absolute miracle how he survived and even got the docs to set his arm back in permanent guitar playing position.

You could tell in his early recordings that Les was extremely influenced by Django and had met him a few times.

[taildragger51]

thesethreekings: I've been told by people that knew Django (e.g. Ivor Mairants) that he was always in constant pain..at least, the left side of his body was and he walked with a limp.

[JFnostalgia]

hendrix and django are different dimensions entirely

[Theofficeslut]

They're from another planet...the same planet, just different time zones.

[Flyin2hawain]

he was the hendrix of his time

[lafierra]

he plays with only 3 fingers

amazing

[TannerCBrooks]

its only two man. even MORE amazing. his hand was burnt so he cant straighten those bottom fingers out. he does sometimes use them for chords though.

[lafierra]

i know!!! BUT HE USE THUMB TOO LIKE BASS

TO PLAY E-A-D CHORDS

[wastefulldan]

He plays more with two fingers, than most can play with a full hand..... God bless Django Reinhardt.....!!! YEAH !

[lafierra]

he use thumb too

[dugi203]

with only two fingers... amasing

[cannoir]

I know right ? amazing isn't it !!

[FreewayGuitar]

amazing guitarist

[Lorando2oo8]

yeaaa the best

[geocepa]

the sound is taken from a recording done in London just after the war called Echoes Of France usind two english rhyth. guitariste and a bass player called Collridge Goode

[WIIFORWII]

this guy can play like crazy man

[kghm2]

This song is used in The Mafia Game :) I like it ;]

[CodenameBane]

...thats where i heard it... thx man

[petegroover]

yea ha go django sooo gooood

[KarloR27]

Django at his best as always.

[MemasMusic45]

Merci... memas

[Tscholing]

Echoes of France^^!

[Noiwo]

he wasn't belgian nor franch he was a gipsy.

[wastefulldan]

noiwo, it's possible to be belgian, french, german or spanish, and still be gypsy....

[srandlesstrat]

Django's hammer-on's give him such quick sounds. I think I enjoy listening as much as I enjoy watching him.

[guitarslim56]

No hammer-ons.

[thedickiesman]

It is playable, but try to play it the way he did, with just the middle and index fingers. Django's left hand was crippled in a fire, as a result, he lost use of his pinky and ring fingers.

[Statick1]

Really? That's amazing!

[thedickiesman]

Yes, I read this in Django chapter of the book "Complete Jazz Guitarist", by Jimmy Stewart.

[drew1371]

amazing guitarist!

[ashleysky89]

This sounds so hard to play! That takes a lot of talent

[justmekimmie]

most of my friends who play guitar would KILL to be half as talented as Django

[MARKMANIATT]

Touched by the hand of God !

[GIRLANDLAKAIFORLIFE]

life was so simple back then no problems just live like there is no 2morow i would give up everything i have in my life just to go back to the 30's

[williestratton]

yeah, it seems that way, but if you think about it, there was a great depressionand then a world war. But really, look at our selves today, I mean, everything is computers now, I myself complain and yet I am a victim of it. I do wish we were in simpler times

[02x9]

That man swung in a way that no other guitarist could.

[edubaito]

lejos lo mejor

[Paniker88]

hey that reminds me of myself. buying food with foodstamps listening to django. and all that in the 21st century....

[CT2507]

hehehe... good one!

[laszlosirsom]

AWESOME!!Kind reg Laszlo.Australia

[whizbang47]

We'll never know but that could be my uncle Jimmy, then stationed at SHAEF headquarters at war's end, dancing in the beginning of this clip. That's what he looked like and this was his music alright.

[jcdemo]

One of Django's best : La Marseillaise!

[zeebrafeets]

seriously.

[Timbul53525253]

What was the film editor *thinking*?

"Oh look, priceless rare footage of Django, let's cut away to some ration coupons!" AAAARGH!!!! Still, a few seconds is better than nothing. Thanks for posting! ;)