Django/Gypsy Jazz related tattoos

DoubleWhisky

I couldn't find anything using the search function, so I thought I'd open a thread. I know tattoos are not overly common in the jazz/swing scene, but i'm sure there are a few out there so: Feel free to post your Django/Gypsy Jazz related tattoos here!

I'll start with my tattoo of the most famous hand in music history based on a drawing by R.S.Baxter that I guess everyone in here has seen. It may be a bit of a poser thing to do, but at least the members here know the significance of the motif as opposed to the casual swimming pool visitor who assumes that this is just a poorly implemented design of an failed middle finger tattoo haha.

I chose this motif because not only it is a hommage to Django and his music, but at the same time it should serve as an inspiration when life let's you think "this won't work".

wim

Good one! No one will mistake this for a failed middle finger, but maybe the two finger salute :)

The drawing is here if anyone wants to see https://gypsyjazzuk.wordpress.com/gypsy-jazz-uk-home/djangos-birth-and-early-childhood/djangos-fret-hand/

There is a guy who regularly comes to Samoreau who is covered in Jazz tattoos! Including a few Django ones, of course. Sadly, I haven't been for a few years now and I've forgotten his name, and couldn't find my photos of the ink :( Maybe somebody else has photos ...

Phil

At DFNW I recall seeing Angelo with a tattoo of a Gypsy guitar with the figure of a woman intertwined round the guitar's neck...and Tchavalo proudly showing the tattoo of Django's face that he has on his chest over his heart.