Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Author: Charles Delaunay

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 1982-08-22

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780306801716

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No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far afield as Larry Coryell, Leon Redbone, Eddy Lang, and Charlie Christian. This is the only full-length study of Django ever published in English, an unforgettable portrait of a wild and independent figure who never learned to read or write (friends forged his autographs), exasperated those people who lived by schedules, gambled away a week's salary in a night, but who played the guitar like no one before or since. The distinguished French critic Charles Delaunay, who knows more about Django than anyone alive, here provides not only the familiar outline of a life--the childhood travels in gypsy caravans, the fire that left Django with a crippled hand, the legendary temper and generosity--but he also collected scores of anecdotes about the sensitivity and musical gifts that were the basis for Django's appearance as a character in Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. Who else but Django could charm his way out of a jail sentence by serenading the police officer with his guitar? The comprehensive discography at the back of the book completes Delaunay's picture of this "misrepresented and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from the contentions of his age."


Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz

Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz

Author: Michael Dregni

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781933108100

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Django Reinhardt was perhaps the greatest guitarist to ever live. A Gypsy who made his jazz guitar speak with a human voice, he was dashing, charismatic, childish . . . and doomed to die young after creating a legacy of Gypsy Jazz that remains vibrant today. Gypsy Jazz is a music both joyous and sad, timeless and modern. It was born from a marriage of Louis Armstrong s trumpet with the anguished sound of Romany violin and the fire of flamenco guitar. Created amidst the glamour of Jazz Age Paris and reaching a peak during the horrors of World War II, Gypsy Jazz gave a voice to a dispossessed people. Today, Gypsy Jazz is more popular than ever. It has a legacy as strong as the Cuban sounds of the Buena Vista Social Club, the blues of B. B. King, or the R&B of Ray Charles. "Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz" is a stylish collection of more than two hundred illustrations telling Django s story and the history of Gypsy jazz. Running through the Paris Jazz Age of the 1920s to the current worldwide renaissance of Gypsy jazz bands (including Django s grandsons, who are playing today), the images include rare archival photographs, modern images, posters, programs, tickets, guitars, memorabilia, paintings, and more. "


The Music of Django Reinhardt

The Music of Django Reinhardt

Author: Benjamin Marx Givan

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0472034081

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An in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend


Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Author: Django Reinhardt

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 148033541X

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(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. 8 songs: Brazil * Daphne * Djangology * Honeysuckle Rose * Minor Swing * Nuages * Souvenirs * Swing 42.


Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Author: Dave Gelly

Publisher: Backbeat Books

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1476852936

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(Book). The music of Django Reinhardt is as important today as it has ever been. Blending jazz and gypsy influences, his exuberant solos and incisive rhythm playing have fascinated and tantalized guitarists for half a century. In this book, leading jazz writer Dave Gelly considers Django's life and recordings and explains exactly why he sounded the way he did. Meanwhile, guitarist and teacher Rod Fogg shows you how you can achieve that sound yourself, with the help of detailed transcriptions of six of Django's most celebrated and exciting numbers. Includes audio wth all six numbers accurately recorded from the transcriptions for you to follow along.


Django

Django

Author: Michael Dregni

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780195304480

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Dregni has penned the first major critical biography of Gypsy legend and guitar icon Django Reinhardt.


Music of Django Reinhardt

Music of Django Reinhardt

Author: Stanley Ayeroff

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1609741927

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The solos of Django Reinhardt are an endless source of inspiration and amazement for any musician. In this exciting book, the author has compiled precise solo transcriptions (in notation only), as well as a thorough analysis of each. There is also a complete "how to" section that is like a book in itself. This book contains some of Django's best work. It covers a period of 17 years, from Django's first trio and quintet recordings to one of his last bop-influenced sessions, "Live at the Club St. Germain." Multiple versions of many solos are included to show Djangos' musical development over his long career. Studying the music of the master of Gypsy Jazz can help lay a solid foundation for your own sound and style.


The Guitar Style of Django Reinhardt & the Gypsies

The Guitar Style of Django Reinhardt & the Gypsies

Author: Ian Cruickshank

Publisher: Music Sales

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780711918535

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(Music Sales America). A guide to playing the style of the famous Gypsy guitarists and information on many of the leading exponents of this unique style. Includes many rare photographs.


Django Reinhardt Anthology (Songbook)

Django Reinhardt Anthology (Songbook)

Author: Django Reinhardt

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1985-06-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1458498565

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(Transcribed). Includes 70 Reinhardt classics for classical guitar. Each song lists its date of recording and other important information relating to the song and recording session.


Django Generations

Django Generations

Author: Siv B. Lie

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-10-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 022681095X

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Django Generations shows how relationships between racial identities, jazz, and national belonging become entangled in France. Jazz manouche—a genre known best for its energetic, guitar-centric swing tunes—is among France’s most celebrated musical practices of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It centers on the recorded work of famed guitarist Django Reinhardt and is named for the ethnoracial subgroup of Romanies (also known, often pejoratively, as “Gypsies”) to which Reinhardt belonged. French Manouches are publicly lauded as bearers of this jazz tradition, and many take pleasure and pride in the practice while at the same time facing pervasive discrimination. Jazz manouche uncovers a contradiction at the heart of France’s assimilationist republican ideals: the music is portrayed as quintessentially French even as Manouches themselves endure treatment as racial others. In this book, Siv B. Lie explores how this music is used to construct divergent ethnoracial and national identities in a context where discussions of race are otherwise censured. Weaving together ethnographic and historical analysis, Lie shows that jazz manouche becomes a source of profound ambivalence as it generates ethnoracial difference and socioeconomic exclusion. As the first full-length ethnographic study of French jazz to be published in English, this book enriches anthropological, ethnomusicological, and historical scholarship on global jazz, race and ethnicity, and citizenship while showing how music can be an important but insufficient tool in struggles for racial and economic justice.