Guitarists most similar to Django?

tbleen

We should make another thread just for Nando! I've been coming across random videos of him and just loving his tone. That vibrato! here's one with Martin Taylor, which I hope is a bigger project.

https://www.facebook.com/100010079538184/videos/491652082922184/

B25Gib

Nice playing by Nando Reinhardt!

I've heard a couple nice F Hole GJ guitars over the years and would also like to know who the Luther is and a rhythm sample!

geese_com

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/119968#Comment_119968

Henning Doderer

https://www.doderer-gitarren.com/

MikeK

I don't think Paul Mehling got mentioned here. Sure his is a more modern sound (with the superb Hot Club of San Francisco), but I find his playing pretty deeply rooted in the purity and brilliance of Django's.

MikeK

https://youtu.be/tcqvtzkeFlw?si=i94pP6fiqvVU5XwE

DoubleWhisky

Most people associate this name with solid body electric guitars, invention of multitrack recording, delay rechniques, captiol records echo chambers or the Invention of the flanger. A honorary mention i want to add to this thread is Les Paul. Certainly not the most similar to Django in pure musical terms but the influence is undeniable.

https://youtu.be/hImaXt8jvRU

Buco

It seems like Duved's name came up the most, doesn't surprise me.

@djazzy I get your comment but who would've turned that kind of offer down? It's like the ultimate honor in this style. Why do you think it's undeserving? He spent a large chunk of his life honing the craft, he's freakishly dedicated. Yes he's very much a stickler about what he wants the band and himself to sound like. And they produce the same kind of the Hot Club vibe closer than anyone, it's like a time travel machine. He's completely immersed in the 30s jazz persona (cracked me up once, it was a stifling hot day in Northampton and he shows up on the lawn fully dressed in a wool suit...i said, Duved, give yourself a break, man...he just smiled and waved his head...then I learned he never steps out of it) But then at DiJ I don't think anyone else among the teaching staff hung out and jammed with the intermediate players more than him.

Interestingly as much as he credits Django for his own sound, he does the other jazzers of the time just as much or more. Especially Louis Armstrong. He thinks Django got a lot from him.

I'm the first one to admit to have my head and ear buried in the music of the guitar players in the genre. Instead of soaking up the other sounds, other instruments, other sources. We all know how much Django loved and listened to classical. There's no other way but for that sensibility to show up in his own playing. That's what made his playing so special, among other things.

But also, @djazzy , like you said, no one else gives me a sense of joy and surprise like Django. It's just an amazing feeling when listening to him makes me laugh out loud and slap my leg. His genius is impossible to match.

djazzy

Hi @Buco,

I guess because there will only ever be ONE Quintette. And that its a little too presumptuous to seriously think YOU & YOUR CREW should be spoken of in the same literal reference. I don’t detect any "irony" here. Its not as if they're winking. I dont think I can spell it out any more than that.

But larping is a thing. So are tribute bands. It could be just as simple as soi disant artists living in 2025 can’t muster enough imagination to come up with their own fucking moniker. Or perhaps it is really nothing less than an ordinary brazen grab.

Noto

Nando is playing a Doderer guitar in this video clip: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1984799534989771

Buco

@djazzy I see, yes, absolutely. Especially the part;

there will only ever be ONE Quintette. And that its a little too presumptuous to seriously think YOU & YOUR CREW should be spoken of in the same literal reference.

I had/have a different perspective... could be wrongly so...the original QHCF was like an official house band. Later on, Django just went by and was billed by his own name. If someone came along and said "hey we're the Beatles now", that would be ridiculous. But in case of the QHCF, I see it more like a sports team, same team name, new generation of players. Whether one generation can be spoken in the same sentence with another, that's another story. And I think both of us and Duved would probably agree about that subject.

But we don't know if they had fun with it away from the camera. Didn't Duved say at some point in that video, something like "and Daniel here is a pretty good musician too" and they both cracked up laughing. So it could be that they understood the situation with grace. I don't know...we'll ask Duved next time we see him.