Recognition for our hero

stubla

Nice little article on Django in one of the big UK papers--always nice to see recognition in the mainstream press!
I've always loved Jeff Beck's playing(best version of 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' ever.. after Mingus anyway) but you've got to love him even more after this quote about Django:

"by far the most astonishing guitar player ever … Django was quite superhuman, there's nothing normal about him as a person or a player"

Somehow i doubt whether the much mooted 'Hollywood' film will ever materialise however....Johnny Depp is way too normal.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/de ... -reinhardt

stu

Teddy Dupont

Yes a nice article and pretty accurate by newspaper standards.

stubla

Teddy Dupont wrote:

Yes a nice article and pretty accurate by newspaper standards.

Yes--theres usually a screaming inaccuracy in this type of article eg that 'he couldn't play electric guitar' or that he's 'Jimmy Rosenbergs uncle'...
Lets hope the BBC recognise the cententary in some way;even a repeat of the Django Legacy would be something
Stu

Phil

Nice article - there's only one person who should play Django in the film, and he's already proven his worth as a film star! ~ the one and only: Tchavolo Schmitt :!:
here's my 'captured moment' of him at 2003's L'espirit Manouche...

Bob Holo

... for the older Django, yes...

But how about during the Maccaferri days...

Mundo

Primarily working as an electric guitarist my whole professional life, Jeff Beck has been my musical hero. I've had the fortune of hanging out with him a few times and and on my first visit he told me Django was his favorite guitarist. So I set out to discover who this Django was and never looked back! I was instantly blown away and have been chasing the Gypsy Djazz dream ever since!

crookedpinky

Late last year the BBC ran a series on guitarists and it was amazing the amount of guitarists who quoted Django as an inspiration - Hendrix, Les Paul, Tony Iommi etc. etc. If you think about it the guitarists who are normally quoted as being the inspiration for most modern players quote Django as their inspiration.

Did you know that "Jessica" The Allman Brothers track was specifically written - by Dickie Betts I believe - as tune which could be played with two fingers in honour of Django.

Also in Decembers issue of the British Medical journal there is an article on Djangos hand. If you can get access it's a good read - if a bit clinically based.

I am disappointed that none of the guitar magazines here in the Uk seem to have anything about Django in their current issues.

Also did you know there;s an appeal to raise a statue to Djangi in Samois, the details - in French - can be found here
http://www.djangostation.com/Une-statue ... che=statue

All the best for 2010
Alan

stubla

A statue in Samois would be nice but i'm really amazed that theres not a Rue Django Reinhardt in Paris- particularly as there IS a Rue Rory Gallagher!--maybe we should start a petition
Stu

frater

I know this is not as bad, but would you believe in Italy NOBODY knows who Mario Maccaferri is?

crookedpinky

A Rue Rory Gallagher ? Well that's nice - and I do like Rory Gallgher ( the first gig I ever went to was to see him in the Glasgow Apollo in 1974 - I was 16, oh where did it all go....) but I'd have thought Django was a better candidate for having a street named after him.

As for Mario, it just proves the old biblical saying that "A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house" - I had to look that up I certainly didn't know it off by heart.

Never mind, at least we know who he was

All the best for 2010

Alan