Django's influence among Greeks, and Greek-Americans.

A Chaloupka

Hello, I'm new to the forum, I thought it might be a good thing to point out Django's influence among Greeks, and Greek Americans, sometimes they even played Jazz with bouzouki! I'll post some recordings, my favorite of the group Bye Bye Blackbird by J. Halikias is just a quick snippet of a home recording, but is something else nonetheless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfVHy54_DXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2hXYKELEpo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x-IKip6qFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9N17eHC ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYlNmnXPfMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEQcaJDMwA4

There are some more songs out there, I'll have to dig them up later.

andmer

Yiasou,

Great links, I'm half Greek!

wim

nice music. i can see the gypsy jazz similarities, but it also strongly reminds me of golden age tango music !