Bireli Lagrene - Minor Swing (British TV)

A young Bireli Lagrene plays Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing" on BBC's 'Pebble Mill'. Accompanied by Diz Disley on Rhythm Guitar, & Jan Jankeje on Bass.
Not sure exactly when this is from, but i'm guessing around 1985, so Bireli would be about 19?

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Music

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• Bireli
• Django
• Gypsy
• Jazz
• Swing

[kapitanswing]

oops! Missed that, Thanks!

[paganinilovedkebab]

there's some weird vibrato

[Zanetniglo]

Lâtchi bâcheba !

[tinkiwinkixeraser]

que grande!

[aaronamccoy]

he looks so nervous but that genius comes through..

[FatFahad]

The Most boring Comments Ever ,

just type ( Nice vid , thanks for posting , i liked it .., AWESOME ,,, etc )

it will do great ....

" thank you for sharing this Epic vid (kapitanswing) keep them comming "

[gr0mithtimon]

@TheCompleteGuitarist

I certainly agree with your first and your last sentence, but that doesn't imply rules in general are bad. The tritone ban was a stupid rule. However, I don't think the existence of bad rules is an argument for having no rules. We should judge rules on their validity, and in language there is much to say for some conservatism. In my language (dutch) its a torture to read anything more then a 100 years old. English fares much better because of official rules.

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

@gr0mithtimon The laws of physics are unbreakable by humans, but human rules often inhibit growth. The tritone interval in music was banned for centuries by the church for it's devilish sound but it is the cornerstone of harmonic tension and release and the basis of most music today. Especially jazz. The rules of language are just patterns developed through the growth of language, and they will always be changing and growing no matter how much societies try to restrict them by imposing rules.

[gr0mithtimon]

@TheCompleteGuitarist

Rules inhibit language? Thats a pretty dull point of view. Without rules, language has no meaning, and communication is impossible. You need rules, be they written or unwritten. There are arguments for keeping the rules the same (f.e. to ensure the documents of today are easier to read in half a century then reading those of a 500 years ago is today) .

Mistakes in grammar often inhibit the communication of ideas, especially in areas where precise formulation is important.

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

@gr0mithtimon part 1 by your peers research papers are you implying their 'grammar' is wrong? Grammar is just a guide line. Communicating ideas is far more important than the structure it's delivered in. Language evolves. Rules inhibit language. What we speak now bears little resemblance to language a 1000 years ago

The left side of the brain deals with language. If we can make music with the left side of the brain then it will flow. But first the right side has to make sense of it.

[TheCompleteGuitarist]

@gr0mithtimon part 2

It also depends on your definition of a virtuoso and if you insist on elevating the status of some saying they have a special skill.

As a teacher of art and music for 20+ years I can see what inhibits peoples development in these areas and while I cannot definitively say what makes one person better than another, I can see that we all have the potential to be virtuosos given circumstances and guidance and the way we learn language is a key to unlock this.