New at DjangoBooks.com

MichaelHorowitz

Greetings Gypsy jazzers!!!



Here's what's new this month at DjangoBooks.com:





Video
Archive: I've put up five new
free video clips. These include some very rare performances by The
Rosenberg Trio and Fapy
Lafertin. See: Video
Archive



Audio
Archive: I've put up the only surviving audio
clips of Mario
Maccaferri . See: Audio
Archive



CDs:
New CD titles this month are:



Didier
Lockwood with Bernd Konrad and the Hans Koller Unit - Phonolith



Joe
Venuti and Marian McPArtland - The Maestro and Friend LP



Joe
Venuti and Chet Baker - Capolinea LP



Joe
Venuti and Earl Hines - Hot Sonatas



Joe
Venuti and Dave McKenna - Alone at the Palace



Stuff
Smith & Robert Crum - The Complete 1944 Rosenkrantz Apartment
Transcription Duets 2 CD Set



Stuff
Smith - 1944-1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment
Performances 2 CD Set



Eddie
South with Ella Fitzgerlad, Herb Ellis, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and
Jo Jones - Americans in Sweden



Eddie
South - Solo, Trio & Ochestra - Broadcasts, Film & Fugitive



Florin
Niculescu with Frederic Sylvestre and Marcel Azzola - Four Friends



Didier
Lockwood with Umberto Pagnini - La Gricca D'Umberto - Brontolone



Didier
Lockwood with Didier Levallet Swing Strings System - Original
Session



Pierre
Blanchard and Lee Konitz - Muisc for String Quartet, Jazz Trio,
Violin



Opus
4 - DChants et Musiques Tziganes



Opus
4 - Le Swing de L'Est



Opus
4 - Django Joue Pour Moi



See: CDs





DVDs:




Bireli
Lagrene - Live in Paris



Tchavolo
Schmitt (Directed by Tony Gatlif) - Swing (Zone 4) In French
with English Subtitles



See: DVDs



Gibson
Johnny Smith: Gorgeous 1985
Anniversary Edition
Gibson Johnny Smith guitar for sale. Bought from, set up, and signed by
Johnny Smith himself! For more details see: Gibson Johnny
Smith





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Keep playing!





-Michael

thrip

Michael Horowitz wrote:

I've put up the only surviving audio clips of Mario Maccaferri

really interesting stuff. thanks!

MichaelHorowitz

he could play! good thing he messed up his hand, otherwise he would have been too busy concertizing and may have never invented the SelMac.

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Jack

Michael,

Thanks for those! I'd never heard him play. The article was a good read as well. One question: Is this true? Or maybe I mean: Did people really not know who he was?

"because he felt his playing was not up to his former glory, Maccaferri performed wearing a mask and billed himself as “The Unknown Guitarist.”

It reminds me of the Santo (masked wrestler/crimefighter) movies from Mexico-an article I read years ago went into detail about how seriously he took the mask...he even had one with a larger mouth slit for eating on the set...

Best,
Jack.

MichaelHorowitz

Jack wrote:

One question: Is this true? Or maybe I mean: Did people really not know who he was?

/quote]

Someone sent that article to me....so I'm not sure where that info came from. Francois Charles' Selmer book also mentions it....he has a photo of Maccaferi playing with a mask.

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