Django’s Pictorial Legacy: The TWA Photos

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Django’s Pictorial Legacy: The TWA Photos

By Roger Baxter Pierre Guillermin, Line Renaud, Hubert Rostaing (standing), Louis Gasté, Django Reinhardt By the early 1950s, Django Reinhardt was very much a “yesterday’s man” and as far as we know, had not worked with Hubert Rostaing since a concert in Brussels in December, 1948. I have...

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MichaelHorowitz

Many thanks to Roger for this insightful and enjoyable analysis of this classic Django photo!

Michael Bauer

Looks like Django's playing a classical guitar in the photo. Thanks for the great analysis!

Teddy Dupont

Michael Bauer wrote: »

Looks like Django's playing a classical guitar in the photo.

....... but it does have a tailpiece.

Michael Bauer

Wow! Your eyes are better than mine, Teddy!

MarkA

Thanks for a fascinating post (I meant to click like instead of funny, I blame the iphone).

Buco

@MarkA Fyi you can unclick and change it too.

Teddy Dupont

Thanks MarkA. I was just a bit confused by your "funny" classification. :-SS

Teddy Dupont

This is a photo of the actual Pan American Clipper that Django travelled to the USA on. The two ladies are Pamela Churchill and Princess Matchabelli, both of whom are mentioned in the newspaper article.

spatzo

Django arrived in NYC with a Pan American Word Airways flight on a Lockheed Constellation L-049-46-26 named "Paul Jones".

Django's visa clearly indicates that he arrived on flight NC88856 thus "Paul Jones" and not on a "Yankee Clipper" as indicated by Michael Dregni in his excellent book on Django

Here's Django's plane

spatzo

Django arrived by plane on 29 October 1946