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ISBN-13
9780195304480
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Publication Year
2006
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Django: the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Item Height
235mm
Author
Michael Dregni
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Music, Musical Instruments
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
480g
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stephane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France. Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach. And along the way, the author offers vivid snapshots of the jazz scene in Paris--colorful portraits of Josephine Baker, Bricktop, Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others--and of Django's vagabond wanderings around France, Europe, and the United States, where he toured with Duke Ellington. Capturing the extraordinary life and times of one of the great musicians of the twentieth century, Django is a must-read portrait of a true original.

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Book Title
Django: the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Author
Michael Dregni
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Music, Musical Instruments
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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235mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
480g

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  • by knackeredtryin
    Apr 07, 2012

    A MUST for all guitarists.

    I bought this book "AFTER" I had read it having borrowed it from a fellow muso. I just had to have my own copy. Back in the 1960's I had Django's hard back biography by Charles Delounay, also the subsequent paper back with more photos. This book however gives a lot more insight into Django's life and also the Manouche gypsies. I just wish I still had the two original Selmer guitars ! Highly recommended. Ade Holland.

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