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Django Reinhardt was the first gitarr hero and everyone playing gitarr today owes him a debt of gratitude for the trail he blazed. There is very little that we do today that he wasn’t doing 70+ years ago, sans amplification, effects and with only two fingers. Well that’s not really true — he did have an early prototype of the FLANGER. HA! I wonder what Django would’ve done with a flanger!! He did begin using an amplified Selmer guitar post-WW 11 and was tearing it up electric style for just a few years before his very untimely death in 1953 at the age of only 43. During a career spanning almost twenty years he recorded literally hundreds of sides that will blow your mind. If you’re the typical USA rock type guitar player, Django is that guy, the one you always hear about and you either wonder why or don’t, (but should). While he was able to use all four fingers and the thumb for chording/comping, he played all of his fiery leads with just two finger
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A recent post on Boing Boing discussed the newly discovered “rules for jazz performers during the Nazi occupation.” Jewish and Black people — two groups targeted by the Nazis — were also the primary innovators of jazz music. But even as the German state denigrated jazz, jazz musicians, and swing dancers, Nazi soldiers loved jazz! How to handle such a contradiction? Rules for playing jazz music: no “Jewishy gloomy lyrics,” no “Negroid excesses in tempo,” and no “hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the barbarian races.”
It’s well worth a look, as is this post from 2010 explaining how many groups vilified by Nazis survived the Holocaust by playing jazz for Nazi soldiers…
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I have a favorite historical musician: Django Reinhardt.
Reinhardt was a Roma jazz musician. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by
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Some Gypsy Jazz stuff from 'Cracking the Code'
March 5, 2016, 2:27 pm
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March 29, 2010, 7:36 pm
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Here he is with Naguine:-
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In constructing the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matelo_Ferret I am also listing as much as I can find of Matelo's recorded output (including reissues) based on my own somewhat limited resources and further internet sleuthing. I am aware it will