"promised jobs in California, but they failed to develop. Tired of waiting, Reinhardt returned to France in February 1947. After his return, Reinhardt re-immersed himself in Gypsy life, finding it difficult to adjust to the postwar world. He sometimes showed up for scheduled concerts without a guitar or amplifier, or wandered off to the park or beach. On a few occasions he refused to get out of bed. Reinhardt developed a reputation among his band, fans, and managers as extremely unreliable. He skipped sold-out concerts to ""walk to the beach"" or ""smell the dew."" During this period he continued to"
"and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. He died suddenly of a stroke at the age of 43. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including ""Minor Swing"", ""Daphne"", ""Belleville"", ""Djangology"", ""Swing '42"", and ""Nuages"". Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola claims that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influenced by Reinhardt. 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. In February 2017, the Berlin International Film Festival held the world premiere of"
"with many traditional gypsy melodies and waltzes, but his various Quintetts played an important role in keeping Django's music alive especially through the 1960s when few others were playing it, and laid the foundation for numerous German Sinto groups that were to follow such as those of Häns'che Weiss, Titi Winterstein, the Hot Club da Sinti and others, also the next generation of great players such as Lulu Reinhardt, Wedeli Köhler and Martin Weiss. Schnuckenack Reinhardt Franz ""Schnuckenack"" Reinhardt (17 February 1921 – 15 April 2006) was a gypsy jazz musician (violinist), composer and interpreter. He was considered the ""great"
"with the French violinist Stéphane Grappelli, his brother Joseph and Roger Chaput on guitar and Louis Volla on bass. At the outbreak of the war, during a tour in England, Django left Grappelli behind and returned to Paris, where in 1940 he recorded his famous song ""Nuages"" with jazz saxophonist and clarinetist Hubert Rostaing. After the war, in 1946, Django Reinhardt went to the States where he performed and recorded with jazz greats like Duke Ellington. Together with Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, he is now - even outside jazz - considered one of the most influential guitarists ever. Django's"
"guitarist Django Reinhardt. In its archetypal steel-string Jazz/Orchestre form, the Selmer is distinguished by a fairly large body with squarish bouts, and either a ""D""-shaped or longitudinal oval sound hole. The strings pass over a movable bridge and are gathered at the tail, as on a mandolin. Two ""mustache"" markers are fixed to the soundboard to help position the movable bridge. The top of the guitar is gently arched or domed—a feature achieved by bending a flat piece of wood rather than by the violin-style carving used in archtop guitars. The top is also rather thin, at about . It"
"was a genius, Duke Ellington was another one, and Reinhardt was also."" Grisman adds, ""As far as I'm concerned, no one since has come anywhere close to Django Reinhardt as an improviser or technician."" 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), the various DjangoFests held throughout Europe and the USA, and Django in June, an annual camp for Gypsy jazz musicians and aficionados. In February 2017, the Berlin International Film Festival held the world premiere of ""Django"", a"
"strum chords for the band, Lang played single-string solos. He drew attention to himself while he was a member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and as a popular studio musician. Like most guitarists of the time, he started on banjo, and when he switched to guitar, many others followed. His Gibson L-5 archtop became a popular model among jazz guitarists. By 1934, largely due to Lang, guitar replaced the banjo as a jazz instrument. Django Reinhardt's flashy style stood out in the early days of rhythm guitarists. He was born in Belgium to a gypsy family. His gypsy jazz was"
"was cancelled in 2004. DjangodOr The Golden Django, named after guitarist Django Reinhardt, is an award for jazz musicians in Europe. The trophy is a creation of the French painter Raymond Moretti. It was first introduced in France (in 1992), then in Belgium (1995), in Sweden and Italy (1999) and finally in Denmark (2001). Since 1995, Belgium has had its own Golden Django ceremony. It was first proposed to reward both French-speaking and Flemish Belgian jazz musicians, but since 2000, only one musician receives the trophy, alternating French-speaking and Dutch-speaking winners each year. The next year, they introduced the new"
"DjangodOr The Golden Django, named after guitarist Django Reinhardt, is an award for jazz musicians in Europe. The trophy is a creation of the French painter Raymond Moretti. It was first introduced in France (in 1992), then in Belgium (1995), in Sweden and Italy (1999) and finally in Denmark (2001). Since 1995, Belgium has had its own Golden Django ceremony. It was first proposed to reward both French-speaking and Flemish Belgian jazz musicians, but since 2000, only one musician receives the trophy, alternating French-speaking and Dutch-speaking winners each year. The next year, they introduced the new talent award. The ceremony"
"Schnuckenack Reinhardt Franz ""Schnuckenack"" Reinhardt (17 February 1921 – 15 April 2006) was a gypsy jazz musician (violinist), composer and interpreter. He was considered the ""great violin virtuoso of Sinti music."" He was a German Sinto; his music was mostly published and categorized under the contemporary names gypsy jazz or ""Musik deutscher Zigeuner"" (music of German gypsies). He ""made this music accessible to a broad public"" and made the most significant contribution to the presentation of gypsy music and jazz in Germany into a concert form. He was the pioneer of this style of music in Germany and directly or"
"Django (composition) ""Django"" is a 1954 jazz standard written by John Lewis as a tribute to the Belgian-born jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was a signature composition of the Modern Jazz Quartet, of which Lewis was the pianist and musical director. Lewis wrote ""Django"" in 1954 as a tribute to his friend, the Belgian-born jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who had died the previous year. It begins with a 20-bar theme that was described by Ted Gioia in his book ""The Jazz Standards"" as dirge-like and mournful. The entry for ""django"" in the original edition of the ""Real Book"" only contained"
"a total of 70 titles, with a piano trio composed of local musicians. By the late 1940s, Grappelli's style of violin swing was out of fashion, and Django, no longer performing regularly, had become interested in playing modern jazz inspired by American bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Django pursued modern jazz until his death in 1953, while Grappelli played and recorded mainstream swing music throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he was active on the music scene. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of European guitarists continued to play acoustic jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt,"
"guitar. Stéphane Grappelli: ""Denny Wright also is a marvellous player, he's got such a good technique. Of course he can't produce Django's melodic line because Django invented it, but he has his own style, and on top of that he's got the strength of Django Reinhardt. In my opinion he's the only player in the world who can compare to Django and, you know, when I'm playing with Denny Wright and if I let my spirit go, then maybe I find that for a few seconds I'm back again with Django Reinhardt."" (""Guitar"" magazine, mid-1970s) Paul McCartney: ""I remember going"
"with the first recording, Reinhardt added a second clarinet, creating a renowned arrangement for the December 1940 recording. Reinhardt's 1946 recording (as can be heard in the sample) is in the key of G major. ""Nuages"" was released by Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France on the French Swing label as a 78-RPM single in 1940. The flip side is ""Les Yeux Noirs"". Nuages ""Nuages"" () is one of the best-known compositions by Django Reinhardt. He recorded at least thirteen versions of the tune, which is a jazz standard and a mainstay of the gypsy"
"recognised as one of the great surviving players of the genre. Two of his sons, Boulou and Elios Ferré, continue to play a more modern and individualistic form of gypsy jazz-based guitar music in Paris. Matelo Ferret was the youngest of the three Ferret brothers, Gitan gypsies from Rouen, France who made their way to Paris and there made the acquaintance of Django Reinhardt in 1931. He was known by his French nickname ""Matelo,"" which meant ""sailor"". He replaced guitarist Gusti Malha alongside accordionist Emile Vacher and later played with Guérino, another well known accordionist. From 1931, the Ferret brothers"
"earliest with a large ""D"" shaped sound hole, and later models with a smaller ""O"" shaped sound hole. The later models are considered most suited to lead guitar playing. Gypsy jazz has been called gypsy swing to refer to music influenced more by jazz than the swing or hot club style started by Reinhardt. After hearing ragtime and Dixieland music, Reinhardt listened to Duke Ellington, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and especially Louis Armstrong via the record collection of painter Émile Savitry in Toulon, France, in 1931. After Reinhardt met violinist Stéphane Grappelli, they played together informally when they weren't"
"as evidenced on his tracks on the album ""Tribute To Django"" recorded in 1967 for French radio (album released later, in 1989). On 78 RPM discs: On EP & LP (plus CD reissues): Sarane Ferret Étienne ""Sarane"" Ferret (1912–1970) (surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer, a contemporary and musical associate of Django Reinhardt, and the brother of noted Gitan (gypsy) guitar players Baro and Matelo Ferret. He recorded with his own quintet in Paris in the 1940s and continued performing there, with occasional recording sessions, until his death in"
"concentration camps, the Sinti were forced to wear either a black triangle, indicating their classification as ""asocial"", or a brown triangle, specifically reserved for Romani people. Django Reinhardt was a guitarist who fused traditional dance hall musettes with American jazz in 1930s and 1940s. Along with Stéphane Grappelli and the other members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded the style of music known as ""Gypsy jazz"". Other notable Sinti musicians include Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Drafi Deutscher and the jazz guitarists Jimmy Rosenberg and Paulus Schäfer. The Sinto Häns'che Weiss produced a record in Germany in the 1970s in"
"Dyango José Gómez Romero, artistically known as Dyango (born March 5, 1940), nicknamed ""The voice of love"", is a Spanish musician and singer of romantic music. He is widely regarded as one of the most romantic Spanish singers, and one of the best performers on the international level. Dyango is one of the most popular and most respected singers and one of the most romantic voices in Latin America and Spain. His name is due to the Romani (Gypsy) guitarist Django Reinhardt. Two of his sons, Marcos Llunas and Jordi, are also singers. Dyango was born on March 5, 1940"
"in small venues. However, playing single note guitar solos audibly without an amplifier is a challenge in larger ensembles and in larger halls. Django Reinhardt's Hot Club of France was a string quintet in which being heard over the other instruments was rarely a problem. Argentinian Oscar Alemán, who was in Paris at the same time as Reinhardt, tried to overcome the problem of audibility by using a resonator guitar, as did Eddie Durham, an arranger and trombonist with the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra who also played guitar. Durham experimented with amplification and became the first person to make audio recordings"
"""European Encounter"" (1962), and with the vocalist Helen Merrill on ""Django"" (1976). Lewis and Gunther Schuller arranged the album ""The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music"" (1955), on which ""Django"" appears, and Schuller's 1961 album ""Jazz Abstractions"" contains three variations on ""Django"". Other notable versions include those by: Django (composition) ""Django"" is a 1954 jazz standard written by John Lewis as a tribute to the Belgian-born jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was a signature composition of the Modern Jazz Quartet, of which Lewis was the pianist and musical director. Lewis wrote ""Django"" in 1954 as a tribute"
"and the “Original Dixieland Jazz Band,” which toured Europe in 1919 and was sufficiently popular to stay on in England for a year. This music was becoming so popular at the beginning of the 20th century that it spread around the globe, inspiring local musicians to listen to and play jazz. Countries like China began jazz festivals with enough public support to become annual traditions. In addition, musicians outside the United States were becoming a sensation by their understanding and development of jazz composition and playing. One of the most respected non-American jazz musicians was the guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt,"
"to compose. Different attempts were made to help Beethoven with adaptive or assistive technology. Thomas Broadwood, the Streichers, and Conrad Graf were all piano manufacturers who tried different methods of adapting the instrument to make it louder for Beethoven: ear trumpets were attached to the soundboard, resonance plates were added to the underside of a piano, and using four strings for every key were all tried. Beethoven ultimately lost all hearing, and could no longer rely on an instrument to help him compose. Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony at this time in his life. Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was"
"and reissued some of his previously released music. He toured and appeared on television. He performed and taught in his native country until his death at age of the 71 in 1980. Alemán usually played with thumb pick and fingers and was best known for playing the D-hole Selmer Maccaferri, which was played by Django Reinhardt. He used a National Style 1 tri-cone resonator guitar, nylon string guitars, and archtop guitars. According to Jorge Larsen, ""Although he kept playing Latin music up to the end, he never jazzed it, but was always very careful to maintain each genre's authenticity."" Critic"
"Django Haskins Djángo Haskins (born November 19, 1973) is a North American singer-songwriter. He is named after legendary jazz musician Django Reinhardt. Originally from Florida, Haskins now resides in North Carolina where he is the frontman of pop-noir musical group The Old Ceremony. Though primarily identified as a guitarist and vocalist, Haskins also plays piano and violin. Haskins was born in Gainesville, Florida. His family's love for music exposed him to the likes of Cole Porter, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Motown, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, The Replacements and Elvis Costello, familiarising him with pop music and its many forms. Haskins himself"
"conserved among gypsies in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands as a folk style in homage to Django Reinhardt. This style appeared again during the 1960s in the German band Schnuckenack Reinhardt and beginning in the 1970s in the music of Belgian group Waso and guitarist Fapy Lafertin, French musician Raphaël Faÿs, Dutch guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, and Alsatian guitarist Biréli Lagrène. It can be seen in the Ferré (a.k.a. Ferret) family. Matelo Ferret and his brother Baro had played with Reinhardt. Matelo's sons Boulou and Elios Ferré were also musicians in the gypsy jazz tradition. After years of playing cafe-style"
"and in 1949 launched his line of plastic ""Islander"" ukuleles in collaboration with television star Arthur Godfrey, which would sell into the millions of units. In the 1950s, Maccaferri produced a line of plastic guitars, but they had little commercial success. Later in his career and up until his death, Maccaferri worked on the design for a plastic violin, which in 1990 was used at a performance at Carnegie Hall. Mario Maccaferri Mario Maccaferri (1900–1993) was an Italian luthier, classical guitarist, businessman, and inventor. He is noted for designing the guitar favored by jazz musician Django Reinhardt, and for inventing"
"of jazz guitar. For about a decade after Reinhardt's death, interest in his musical style was minimal. In the fifties, bebop superseded swing in jazz, rock and roll took off, and electric instruments became dominant in popular music. Since the mid-sixties, there has been a revival of interest in Reinhardt's music, a revival that has extended into the 21st century, with annual festivals and periodic tribute concerts. His devotees included classical guitarist Julian Bream and country guitarist Chet Atkins, who considered him one of the ten greatest guitarists of the twentieth century. The Allman Brothers Band song ""Jessica"" was written"
"Selmer guitar The Selmer guitar—often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by English speakers, as early British advertising stressed the designer rather than manufacturer—is an unusual acoustic guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. Selmer, a French manufacturer, produced the instrument from 1932 to about 1952. In 1932 Selmer partnered with the Italian guitarist and luthier Mario Maccaferri to produce a line of acoustic guitars based on Maccaferri's unorthodox design. Although Maccaferri's association with Selmer ended in 1934, the company continued to make several models of this guitar until 1952. The guitar was closely associated with jazz"
"Nuages ""Nuages"" () is one of the best-known compositions by Django Reinhardt. He recorded at least thirteen versions of the tune, which is a jazz standard and a mainstay of the gypsy swing repertoire. English and French lyrics have been added to the piece which was originally an instrumental work. The title translated into English is ""Clouds"", but the adaptation with English lyrics is titled ""It's the Bluest Kind of Blues"". In 1940, Django made two recordings of Nuages in F major, and with a clarinet melody. (Some later recordings are in G major, perhaps to suit the violin.) Unhappy"
"Larry Reinhardt Larry ""Rhino"" Reinhardt (July 7, 1948 – January 2, 2012) was an American rock guitarist who played with Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond. At one time Reinhardt was known by the nicknames ""El Rhino"" and ""Ryno"". Born in Florida, United States, Reinhardt started his musical career in the 1960s in the Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida area. He worked with several bands, the most well-known of which was The Thunderbeats. In 1969, Reinhardt, along with bassist Richard Price and drummer Ramone Sotolongo, formed a ""power trio"" called The Load. The band landed a house gig in Gainesville, at a club called"
"Baro Ferret Pierre Joseph ""Baro"" Ferret (1908–1976) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer. He was known by his Gypsy nickname ""Baro,"" which meant ""Big One"" or even ""King"" in Romany. Through his brother Jean ""Matelo"" Ferret, Baro met Django Reinhardt, and the two became both friends and notorious rivals. From 1931, the Ferret brothers, along with their third brother Etienne ""Sarane"" Ferret, and cousin René ""Challain"" Ferret, were favorite sidemen of Reinhardt. Baro recorded around 80 sides with the great guitarist. The Ferret brothers played with musicians including Didi Duprat. Baro retired as a full-time musician during World War"
"tune. The discography section of Charles Delaunay's Django Reinhardt biography lists the following sessions at which versions of ""Minor Swing"" were recorded: Minor Swing (composition) ""Minor Swing"" is a popular Gypsy jazz tune composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. It was first recorded by The Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1937. It was recorded five other times throughout Reinhardt's career and is considered to be one of his signature compositions, as well as a Gypsy jazz standard. The composition was first released as a 78 single on the French Swing label in 1937 as SW.23A, Matrix"