Gypsy Jazz with May Bittel (4)

Gypsy Jazz with May Bittel - "Les Feuilles Mortes"

My friend May Bittel is a legendary Swiss Gypsy guitarist - but he is mainly a Pastor and a very active political activist fighting for the protection and rights of Gypsies in Switzerland and the world. He seldom performs in public nowadays except within his community and congregation, so this was an exceptional little event. He is accompanied by my friends John Intrator on the violin, and Jacques Kralian on the rhythm guitar.

http://www.djangostation.com/Harmonie,868.html

http://www.djangostation.com/Evasion,831.html

May Bittel's son Dany Bittel is also a remarkable guitarist and has his own career - you can find him on MySpace where you can hear some of his music - http://www.myspace.com/danybittelquartet

I encourage you to buy his CD.

Swiss Gypsies are called Yenish, but there are also many Manouches and Sintis living in Switzerland, as well as Rroms and Tziganes.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gypsy Jazz
• Jazz Manouche
• May Bittel
• Django Reinhardt
• Gypsy Music
• Gypsies
• Guitar
• Violin
• Yenish
• Manouche
• Sinti
• Tzigane
• Rrom
• Roma People
• Geneva
• Switzerland

[Vierotchka]

Damn! Why those crackling sounds at the beginning of this and the other May Bittel videos? They certainly aren't on the original videos which I uploaded.

[steinberger95]

autumn leaves??

bello!!!!!!!!!!!

[verylemon]

Nice video dear friend, and good music indeed. VL

[loskobosko]

Really really nice.