English based Gypsy jazz fans

stubla

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i have met a few guitarist's who say they aint realy into Django, but i find those people's playing is a bit shit even if they think they are great. Kinda says it all[/quote]

Jimmy Raney said "Django Reinhardt"?....thats mandolin music" --hes wrong of course but Raney was a monster player despite that and,funnily enough,his later work(eg "Live in Tokyo" finds him using a pretty strong vibrato rather like Django.
--a lot of those Bebop guitar players were really into Horn players and ignored many of the guitar's tonal possibilties particularly dynamically--Allan Holdsworth has much the same approach today.
Stu

w_lavene

ok it was a bit of a sweaping statement, i think you know what i ment!!

stubla

w_lavene wrote:

ok it was a bit of a sweaping statement, i think you know what i ment!!

Absolutely!--i wasn't disagreeing with you.The Brazilians have a saying 'never trust a man who doesn't like Samba'--well i don't trust anybody who doesn't like Django :-)