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Django in the New Yorker
There's some really cool old stuff in the New Yorker Digital Archives, which are available online to subscribers of the print edition.
Here's a listing of Django's Carnegie Hall gig with Duke Ellington. What a week for music -- Leonard Bernstein was also conducting Benny Goodman with the NY City Symphony.
Here's a listing of Django's Cafe Society gig with Imogene Coca. On the right, look who was playing at the Waldorf-Astoria: "In the Wedgewood Room, after the theatre, there is Frank Sinatra, a singer." Can you imagine a time when you had to explain who Sinatra was?
Here's a capsule review of an album released after his death. "He offers Brazil, Night and Day, September Song, and five far less worthy numbers in a rather leisurely, almost careless, fashion..."
There's more great stuff. I've only begun to comb through it. But I love getting a sense of the world in which Django lived. Hard to imagine how new this all was back then.
Here's a listing of Django's Carnegie Hall gig with Duke Ellington. What a week for music -- Leonard Bernstein was also conducting Benny Goodman with the NY City Symphony.
Here's a listing of Django's Cafe Society gig with Imogene Coca. On the right, look who was playing at the Waldorf-Astoria: "In the Wedgewood Room, after the theatre, there is Frank Sinatra, a singer." Can you imagine a time when you had to explain who Sinatra was?
Here's a capsule review of an album released after his death. "He offers Brazil, Night and Day, September Song, and five far less worthy numbers in a rather leisurely, almost careless, fashion..."
There's more great stuff. I've only begun to comb through it. But I love getting a sense of the world in which Django lived. Hard to imagine how new this all was back then.
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Thanks for sharing these documents.
In september 1947 (1st or 3d?), Porfirio Rubirosa married Doris Duke in Paris.
At the wedding party Django, Hubert Rostaing and Yves Montand were present.
Is there by chance any photo of this event in the New Yorker?
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François RAVEZ
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Teddy, if there is something somewhere it is probably in the photo albums of very old and very rich people.
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François RAVEZ