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yes, i've seen all of these in the archive...is there anything else out there? a lot of the stuff online looks like it was a snippet of some larger footage.

scot

The only other film of Joseph playing I ever found was in an old movie called "Mon Pote le Gitan" where he also had an acting role. He also made dozens of recordings with all sorts of people. He was an excellent player with a unique sound and improvising style. Not exactly what we'd call gypsy jazz today, though. He was also an able composer of odd and idiosyncratic short pieces of music. I think he must have had a strange personality, too - his sister once said "My brother Joseph? He's an Arab..." I suppose he's another of those great players from the past who are mostly overlooked today because of the difficulty of finding the old recordings. He was one of the best, that's for certain.

The text with the youtube video identifies the rhythm guitarist/violinist in these newsreel clips as Vivian Villerstein. This is incorrect and Roger is right. The guy with the sunglasses and Levin guitar is actually Pierre Ramonet, a journeyman jazz musician who made an LP in the 70s called "Jazz Violin" which pretty much defies description.

Barengero

Here is a poster from this film

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Barengero

Teddy Dupont

scot wrote:

The text with the youtube video identifies the rhythm guitarist/violinist in these newsreel clips as Vivian Villerstein.

Vivian Villerstein looked remarkably like Django and was often mistaken for him. This a copy of a photo Mario Maccaferri owned and he thought it was Django as he never actually met him.

Super Mario Maccaferri

scot wrote:

he's another of those great players from the past who are mostly overlooked today because of the difficulty of finding the old recordings. He was one of the best, that's for certain.

Guys, allow me to invite you over to manoucheries to check out the link Pascal.ch just posted on this forum on the "surprise" thread...
Get your ears on an old Joseph vinyl with some superb playing from Nin-Nin :
http://www.manoucheries.com/phpBB2/view ... &start=195
scroll down a bit till you read "Joseph joue pour Django" (it's in RED, in a link, posted by user "JU"), you can get the album in a click.
Now enjoy and go check the full thread !!!