He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43. Reinhardt spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, spending carefree days immersed in music. "[8], Feeling unappreciated by critics and not accepted by French authorities as the legal heir of Django, Lousson retired from playing in 1980. It is very difficult to achieve the same tone, articulation and clarity using all 5 left hand fingers. Sweet and Lowdown: Directed by Woody Allen. Sua casa era pequena, de madeira e tinha rodas. I mean, the combination of incredible speed all the speed you could possibly want but also the thing of every note have a specific personality. Both in his personal nature and in the nature of his music, Django displayed the character of a dreamer. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again. Re: [portland] django coders? For you certainly cannot do it after a jazz concert? [39] Because of his physical disability, he played mainly using his index and middle fingers, and invented a distinctive style of jazz guitar. He never had any formal schooling. DR: No, it's not I who notates the music. Hvert r bliver der afholdt en festival til . Musician. Django Reinhardt 5/1953. Neill, Billy & Gates, E. (compilers) (c. 1945). I have a favorite historical musician: Django Reinhardt. A number of musicians named their sons Django in reference to Reinhardt, including David Crosby, former Slade singer Noddy Holder, Jerry Jeff Walker, Richard Durrant, and actors Nana Visitor and Raphael Sbarge. ISBN links support NWE through referral fees. [2] In February 2017, the Berlin International Film Festival held the world premiere of the French film Django. After living the nomadic life of his people, Lousson died in 1992 and was buried at Samois near Django Reinhardt and Joseph Reinhardt. He had to eventually return to France, as though he was promised jobs in California, he was not granted any. The recording was issued for the first time in the late 1950s. Over the next few years, through his sheer will, he taught himself to overcome his handicap by using only his thumb and the remaining two fingers to play the instruments. The first four are now available on Matelo's CD Tziganskaa and Other Rare Recordings, released by Hot Club Records (subsequently reissued as Tziganskaa: The Django Reinhardt Waltzes); "Chez Jacquet" was also recorded by Baro Ferret in 1966. [50][51], The documentary film, Djangomania! I Nationalencyklopedin beskrivs han som "en av jazzens mest virtuosa och stilbildande gitarrister". His music earned him a lot of popularity and even gained the young man worldwide attention. [11]:160 Over a million Roma were exterminated for presumed racial inferiority and jazz was believed to combine the worst of Blacks and Jews (i.e., "musical race defilement"). In 2005, Django Reinhardt ended on the sixty-sixth place in the election of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and on the seventy-sixth place in the Walloon version of the same competition Le plus grand belge. Django Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a pioneering virtuoso Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. On a few occasions he even refused to get out of bed. Babik Reinhardt The caravan which Reinhardt shared with his wife caught fire one night . The origin of the nickname Django is highly debated. Harlan Ellison's short story "Django" is a fantasia about a guitarist, with similarities to Reinhardt. A third generation of direct descendants has developed as musicians: David Reinhardt, Reinhardt's grandson (by his son Babik), leads his own trio. This marriage also produced one son. The fire burned the majority of his body, leaving his left hand deformed. [48][42], In February 2017, the Berlin International Film Festival held the world premiere of Django, a French film directed by Etienne Comar. Wherever he stayed, in fact, became an encampment for his extended family. He was also a painter, fly fisher and billiard player. In Paris on 14 March 1933, Reinhardt recorded two takes each of "Parce que je vous aime" and "Si, j'aime Suzy", vocal numbers with lots of guitar fills and guitar support. One of his most famous pieces is the melancholic "Nuages," meaning "Clouds," which became the ersatz anthem for the French, invoking the sweeter feelings of the days before the war. The Allman Brothers Band song Jessica was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Reinhardt (he wanted to write a song that could be played using only two fingers). Both his sons, Lousson and Babik, also followed in his footsteps and became jazz guitarists. Django Reinhardt nat le 23 janvier 1910 en Belgique, dans une famille sinti . Who Is Django Reinhardt's Wife? In his final recordings, made with his Nouvelle Quintette in the last few months of his life, he had begun moving in a new musical direction, in which he assimilated the vocabulary of bebop and fused it with his own melodic style.[33]. He only played when the spirit moved him, and perhaps behaved similarly in many other facets of his life, as well. His second wife was Naguine, and they had a son Babik. Django Reinhardt first married a girl named Florine Mayer when he was seventeen. [11]:3135, Within a year of the fire, in 1929, Bella Mayer gave birth to their son, Henri "Lousson" Reinhardt. Reinhardt's second son, Babik, became a guitarist in a more contemporary jazz style, and recorded a number of albums before his death in 2001. (He often used a Selmer fitted with an electric pickup, despite his initial hesitation about the instrument.) The Modern Jazz Quartet titled one of their albums Django in honor of him. [6] Over the last few decades, annual Django festivals have been held throughout Europe and the U.S., and a biography has been written about his life. [35] For an unsurpassed insight into these techniques in use, interested persons should not miss viewing the only known synchronised (sound and vision) footage of Reinhardt in performance, playing on an instrumental version of the song "J'Attendrai" for the short jazz film Le Jazz Hot in 193839 (copies available on YouTube and elsewhere). Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means 'I Awake' in the Romani language, however it may. A distant relative, violinist Schnuckenack Reinhardt, became known in Germany as a performer of gypsy music and gypsy jazz up to his death in 2006, and assisted in keeping Reinhardt's legacy alive through the period following Django's death. in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards. Django later picked up several more instruments, the banjo, guitar, and a hybrid of the two, called a guitjo, and profited from his rising talent at county fairs and on the streets of nearby towns. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. The Prix Django Reinhardt is an award that was named after Reinhardt. However, they parted shortly after the accident. On the night of 2 November 1928, Reinhardt was going to bed in the wagon that he and his wife shared in the caravan. [14] During his 18-month hospitalization, doctors recommended amputation of his badly damaged right leg. Interview: Django's compositions were sometimes jaunty, sometimes sad. Beginning in 1933, all German Romani were barred from living in cities, herded into settlement camps, and routinely sterilized. Jazz musician Django Bates was named after him. In 1943 the tide of war turned against the Germans, with a considerable darkening of the situation in Paris. . [19]:93 During a concert at the Salle Pleyel, the popularity of the tune was such that the crowd made him replay it three times in a row. I have written this mass to be interpreted by choir and organ. Jazz and swing music was not yet on the young Django's radar yet, however, but his musical repertoire as a young man included being adept at playing the guitar, violin and banjo. Film Review: 'Django'. It's my clarinetist in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Gerard Leveque. Members of the quintet were hesitant to return to France where the Nazis were at work rounding up gypsies. In the climax of the movies, his hands are smashed by his enemies and he is forced to fire a gun with his wounded hands. [11]:66, From 1934 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Reinhardt and Grappelli worked together as the principal soloists of their newly formed quintet, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, in Paris. Luckily, the young artist recovered unexpectedly well and within a year was able to walk again with the use of a cane. Jeff Beck described Reinhardt as "by far the most astonishing guitar player ever" and "quite superhuman".[61]. About Django Reinhardt Born in Belgium in 1910 and raised in France, Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt was the first European jazz musician to carve out a unique stylejazz manouchewedding the virtuosic speed and rhythmic conception of Roma traditional music with jazz improvisation. In addition, to help support the family, Django earned money by fixing musical instruments and weaving baskets. The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943. Managed by: Private User. Grappelli remained in the United Kingdom for the duration of the war. Another difficulty was that Django, used to playing the Selmer Maccaferri, the guitar that he made famous, was required to play a new amplified model for the American tour. . . 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Vola invited them to jam with his jazz ensemble, consisting of violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist Roger Chaput who was sometimes replaced with Pierre Ferret. Hitler and Joseph Goebbels viewed jazz as un-German counterculture. This union formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France, a group that quickly rose to fame and helped revolutionize traditional straight jazz with their unexampled, feverous sound. So Django Reinhardt was born in Belgium in 1910 but moved to France. He sometimes showed up for scheduled concerts without a guitar or amplifier, or wandered off to the park or beach. During this time, Django produced numerous recordings with the quintet in addition to forming other side projects with more conventional instrumentations. Disappointed, Reinhardt returned to France that same year with his dreams of becoming a great American star broken, though this did not keep him from delving deeper into his career and music. A melodic debut segues into some melancholy half bends at 1:07, a common employment. New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article Reinhardt survived World War II unscathed, unlike many other Gypsies who perished in concentration camps. The Django web framework, a Python web framework, was named after Reinhardt. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. Django Reinhardt is jazz guitar's most dazzling soloist, improviser, and most important, innovator. was released in 2005. The names of two of Lousson's children, Chti and Gagoug, were commemorated musically when Django's widow, Naguine, conferred them on two previously unpublished compositions of Django as subsequently recorded by Matelo Ferret in 1960.[11]. Django remains a cultural hero to maverick guitarists world-round who play his music as homage to the legendary architect of the "gypsy jazz" sound. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one. Well, it could be because he follows his musical taste and not his fingers. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. By his early teens, he had started playing in clubs across Paris. Over the years, Django Reinhardts recordings have been released on several cassettes, EPs, and albums. There, he had the chance to perform at many of the country's prime venues including Carnegie Hall, performing alongside notable musicians and composers such as Maury Deutsch. [13]:11 Accompanying him on his travels was his new girlfriend, Sophie Ziegler. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and the first important European jazz musician to make a major contribution with jazz guitar. His given name of Django translates to Jean in the. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including "Minor Swing",[5] "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". In 1953, he collaborated with the famed jazz musician Dizzie Gillespie and created a few records. [2]:28 Reinhardt was able to make a living playing music by the time he was 15, busking in cafs, often with his brother Joseph. One noteworthy gain from the trip to America was that he had left France playing swing, but returned thinking of beebop and modern jazz which would be the new direction he ultimately took. Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt ( 23. januar 1910 - 16. maj 1953) var en fransk / belgisk jazzguitarist, der var en af de frste fremtrdende europiske jazzmusikere, som blev bermt pga. [2]:169 In France, they were used as slave labour on farms and in factories. King; the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia; Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi; Jimi Hendrix; Shawn Lane; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Mark Knopfler; Les Paul; Joe Pass; Peter Frampton; Denny Laine;Jeff Beck; Steve Howe; Charlie Christian; George Benson; Wes Montgomery; Martin Taylor; Tchavolo Schmitt; Stochelo Rosenberg; Birli Lagrne; John Jorgenson; Michael Angelo Batio; Richard Thompson; Robert Fripp; and Jeff Martin. Born in Belgium and raised in a gypsy camp near Paris, he first learned to play the violin, but later switched to banjo-guitar. Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian guitarist and composer credited with popularizing Gypsy jazz, as well as conceptualizing the style together with several other Gypsy musicians.Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means "I Awake" in the Romani language, however it may also simply have been a diminutive, or local Walloon version, of "Jean". This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. Though only two fingers of his left hand were functional, he became one of the most famed and prominent jazz musicians in the world. The couple escaped, but Reinhardt suffered extensive burns over half his body. His father was Jean Eugene Weiss and his mother was Laurence Reinhardt. This also led to him developing a unique technique, in which he could play with only his remaining fingers. The young guitarist was at home with his common-law wife, Bella, in their gypsy caravan on the edge of Paris. Reinhardt developed a reputation among his band, fans, and managers as extremely unreliable. Tired of waiting, Reinhardt returned to France in February 1947. At this time, he had not started playing jazz, although he had probably heard and had been intrigued by the version of jazz played by American expatriate bands like Billy Arnold's. This aspect of the artist's work also motivated Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who was inspired by Reinhardt to keep playing guitar after a factory accident that cost him two fingertips. Django returned to Paris at once, leaving behind his wife and band members, and quickly reformed the quintet with Hubert Rostaing on clarinet in place of Grappelli's violin. "[42], The popularity of gypsy jazz has generated an increasing number of festivals, such as the Festival Django Reinhardt held every last weekend of June since 1983 in Samois-sur-Seine (France),[43][44] the various DjangoFests held throughout Europe[45] and the US, and Django in June, an annual camp for Gypsy jazz musicians and aficionados. [7][4] Francis-Alfred Moerman, who accompanied Sarane Ferret for many years, played with Lousson for several years in the 1960s and said, "Playing with Lousson was an extraordinary experience; he really had his father's genius in his fingers he really was unluckyhis talent was awesome, but he played in the 1960s, which were the worst years for jazz players, so he was never successful and left no [official] recordings. [1] Henri/Lousson learned to play guitar from his relatives; he is pictured playing with Django and others in a photograph dating from the mid 1940s[2] and played rhythm guitar with Django's "Nouveau Quintette" on a tour of Belgium in November-December 1948, of which an official release exists. Burned while saving his pregnant wife, Django Reinhardt spent more than a year in and out of hospitals. [12], He received little formal education and acquired the rudiments of literacy only in adult life. [4] Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. Playing completely by ear (he could neither read nor write music), he roamed freely across the full range of the fretboard giving full flight to his musical imagination and could play with ease in any key. Enjoy. Django Reinhardt was inducted into the Grammy Hall of fame as well as into the Jazz Hall of Fame. He also pushes himself to the edge nearly all the time, and rides a wave of inspiration that sometimes gets dangerous. Garcia was quoted in June 1985 in Frets Magazine: His technique is awesome! Did Django Reinhardt have any children? May 16, 1953, when, while returning from the Avon, Seine-et-Marne train station, he collapsed They were also famous for using an inventive style of employing their guitars for percussion purposes, as they had no true percussion section. Nuotteja lukematon Reinhardt . [22], In 1938, Reinhardt's quintet played to thousands at an all-star show held in London's Kilburn State auditorium. Reinhardt was the most famous jazz musician in Europe at the time, working steadily during the early war years and earning a great deal of money, yet always under threat. An injury in a fire could have ended Django Reinhardt's career. In the classic Italian western, "Django," the titular hero is presumably named after Reinhardt. Jean Reinhardt, known by his Romani nickname Django, was a Romani-Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. Born in Belgium, his French father, Jean Eugene Weiss, chose to use his wife's maiden name of Reinhart instead of Weiss. They had a son, Babik Reinhardt, who became a respected guitarist.[23]. It was then, in 1932 or 1933, that a friend of his invited him up to his apartment to listen to some records. Indeed, Reinhardt was a family man, having been raised amongst the gypsy people who are famous for the alliance of their extended tribe. Two of his fingers were badly burnt and he thought that he would never be able to play the guitar again. [63], Willie Nelson has been a lifelong Reinhardt fan, stating in his memoir, "This was a man who changed my musical life by giving me a whole new perspective on the guitar and, on an even more profound level, on my relationship with soundDuring my formative years, as I listened to Django's records, especially songs like 'Nuages' that I would play for the rest of my life, I studied his technique. Django also worked on composing a Mass for use by the gypsies, which was not completed although an 8-minute extract exists, played by the organist Lo Chauliac for Reinhardt's benefit, via a 1944 radio broadcast; this can be found on the CD release "Gipsy Jazz School" and also on volume 12 of the "Intgrale Django Reinhardt" CD compilation.[c]. Este considerat unul din cei mai mari chitariti de jazz ai tuturor timpurilor i este primul muzician de talie mondial "produs" de continentul european. These posthumous compilations include Django Reinhardt et Ses Rythmes, Le Jazz Hot, Djangos Guitar, The Immortal Django Reinhardt Guitar and Routes to Django Reinhardt. Death: Immediate Family: Wife of Django Reinhardt. After the war, Reinhardt rejoined Grappelli in the UK. [13]:10, More crucial to his music, the fourth finger (ring finger) and fifth finger (little) of Reinhardt's left hand were badly burned. As Django aged, he would spend the majority of his days re-immersing himself in gypsy life, having found it difficult to adjust to the modern world. Although Django was twenty years older than the rest of the band, he was completely in command of the modern style. Even the few times he does not quite make his ideas flow out flawlessly it is still so exciting that mistakes don't matter! He would also periodically vanish for greater lengths, disappearing for a week or two to play at his beloved gypsy campfires. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was met with mixed reviews. Genre for Django Reinhardt JAMIE FOXX "Django Unchained" co-star MERLE HAGGARD: Country singer who collaborated with Willie Nelson on the 2015 album "Django and Jimmie" . Despite Reinhardt's great pride in touring with Ellington, he was never properly integrated into the band, playing only a few tunes at the end of each show with no special arrangements written especially for him. January 23, 1910 in Liberchies, Pont--Celles, Reinhardt is the idol of the fictional 1930s guitarist Emmet Ray (played by Sean Penn), who passes out upon meeting Django in the Woody Allen film, Reinhardt is portrayed in the opening sequence of the 2003 animated film, He is portrayed by guitarist John Jorgenson in the movie, The song Johnny Depp plays in the river party scene in Lasse Hallstrm's, Reinhardt's music has been used in the soundtrack of many films, including the oracle scene in, Reinhardt is the idol of the character Arvid in the movie, An extended discussion of Reinhardt takes place among several characters in the novel From Here to Eternity by, Sealab 2021 paid tribute to Django in the episode "Bebop Cola." Django Reinhardt married Florine Mayer in 1927 according to gypsy custom although their marriage was not registered, and therefore not recognised under French law. The hour-long film was directed and written by Jamie Kastner, who traveled throughout the world to show the influence of Django's music in various countries. "[42] David Grisman adds, "As far as I'm concerned, no one since has come anywhere close to Django Reinhardt as an improviser or technician. His mother, also, was a talent in her own right, often performing in song and dance on the tailgate of the caravan. [13]:12, While developing his interest in jazz, Reinhardt met Stphane Grappelli, a young violinist with similar musical interests. Their son Henri, nicknamed "Lousson" from the French "l'ourson" meaning "bear cub", was born in 1929, however shortly after this the couple separated and Florine remarried; his birth certificate thus bears the last name Baumgartner from Mayer's second husband. The British guitarist Diz Disley plays in a style based on Reinhardt's technique and he collaborated on numerous projects with Stphane Grappelli; Reinhardt also had an influence on other styles and musical genres, including Western Swing, notably in the work of Bob Wills. Discover Very Best of Django Reinhardt [Greatest Hits] by Django Reinhardt released in 2007. Denny Laine and Jimmy McCulloch, members of Paul McCartney's band Wings, have mentioned him as an inspiration. With Woody Allen, Ben Duncan, Daniel Okrent, Dan Moran. So, how much is Django Reinhardt worth at the age of 43 years old? In his earliest recordings Reinhardt played banjo (or, more accurately, banjo-guitar) accompanying accordionists and singers on dances and popular tunes of the day, with no jazz content, whereas in the last recordings before his death he played amplified guitar in the bebop idiom with a pool of younger, more modern French musicians. "[64], Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin: "Django Reinhardt was fantastic. Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. Django Reinhardt married Florine Mayer in 1927 according to gypsy custom although their marriage was not registered, and therefore not recognised under French law. Using an early amplification system, he was able to work in more of a big-band format, in large ensembles with horn sections. Differing accounts surround his death. On a few occasions he refused to get out of bed. After Reinhardt died, his younger brother Joseph at first swore to abandon music, but he was persuaded to perform and record again. Jean "Django" Reinhardt was a promising young musician when a crippling injury seemed to end his chance of having a music career. Django Reinhardt nasceu em Liberchies, na Blgica, no distante da fronteira com a Frana, em 23 de janeiro de 1910. SonicHits. 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