Interesting Django Recordings and Lost Footage?

Svanis1337 · October 2011

It just so happens I AM Richieboy.

I just used another name at hotclub.co.uk

Django loves his socks!

I don't think I posted some of the others. I have never seen that photo before.

Unless it's the first three ones on this page: http://www.hotclub.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6113&start=15

I only know three photos from the Tony Proteau instance. The previous two and this one:

The really nice one and this one come from you, Teddy.

Mitch · October 2011

Thanks Teddy for the Samois/Stimer Photo, I didn't have that quality.
How much photos are you still hiding from us ?

Let me then offer you the scan of my original print. Teddy you may have it (?) but Svanis should be pleased as much as I've been by your scan (really cool !).

The wite cap series was taken at Le touquet plage where Django stayed several weeks in summer 1949.

Svanis you found a new varia of this session because I didn't know this one, but I have the one shot one sec later (or before, hey try to answer that guys

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Here is for your personnal enjoyment gentlemen...

Le Touquet 1949, this photo belongs to the Jean Bouchety family, and should be quite rare in that quality. (Django's expression on this one reminds me of Serge Krief) :

Interesting quality varia on this one, for your own personnal pleasure...
Please note that the rhythm player is NOT Joseph but Tony Weiss, Eugène Vées' cousin (with the "mouche" completing his moustache under his lower lip) :

One of my fav's ever, which we all know, in 1949 at Le Bourget :

And finally a great rendition of the ROger VIollet collection picture. It's a collage by Mustapha Butadjine who made a whole series about Gypsies (Django, Camaron, Tony Gatlif, Mateo Maximov and many others...). The Django one was rouglhy 1,50 meter high and so beautiful. I saw it from the street and rushed into the gallery to ask for the price but it was already sold 6000 €...

Teddy Dupont · October 2011

Mitch wrote:

Let me then offer you the scan of my original print. Teddy you may have it (?) but Svanis should be pleased as much as I've been by your scan (really cool !).

Yes you had sent it to me that but it is still fabulous quality.

Mitch wrote:

Le Touquet 1949, this photo belongs to the Jean Bouchety family, and should be quite rare in that quality. (Django's expression on this one reminds me of Serge Krief) :

Thanks. That's better quality than my copy.

I have many different prints of the one below but I have still not got a decent size, uncropped, good quality copy:-

Svanis1337 · October 2011

Beautiful Mitch, thank you! I had similar scans of the first, third and fourth. Didn't have the second at all.

Your scans are all better in quality, although I have the 1947 concert one in slightly larger size and slightly worse quality. (I had heard it was from 1945.)

Thank you for the Django smiling one, it's one of the best and it just got even better.

Here are my scans. :oops:

Svanis1337 · October 2011

Here are two scans of that other one. I found the first scan on a japanese website. :shock:

Here's the compilation of all those B&W photos. I have never seen any of the 1951 St Germain photos except the top right and the one under it outside this compilation. I haven't seen the 1953 one just above the bottom left either. You can see how much of the surrounding the pictures show when not cropped.

Here is another photo I found at the japanese website. I have another higher quality scan but it is still poor, and the size is much smaller. It does show more of the surroundings though. This one is so "zoomed in".

I think Teddy is "hiding" over 100 Django photos from us.

Mitch. The "Le Bourget" photos could be from 1949 or 1950. Babik Reinhardt's own copies said 1950. They were taken by reporter Michel Descamps.

Svanis1337 · October 2011

Also: It seems the Django with Oscar Peterson photo wasn't fake after all. Check this out.

But what did I find at djangostation? Django, Eddie Barclay and Oscar!

All taken in 1953.

Svanis1337 · October 2011

Django Reinhardt with André Ekyan. Notice the device under the piano.

Svanis1337 · October 2011

I just blew $524 on an accordion on eBay and it was NOTHING like the description. Took like 12 days for it to arrive, too. It's out of tune, and there's all kinds of problems. Hopefully I'll get my money back, or if I'm lucky it's an easy repair.

You gotta love people trying to fish the money out of your wallet.

Teddy Dupont · October 2011

Both the Django and Oscar Peterson photos are fakes. The real photo is just Django and Eddie Barclay. Even if you look at the higher resolution, digitally manipulated version below, the definition of the Django/Eddie Barclay images is far higher than that of Peterson and the join between Barclay and Peterson does not really make sense. But the real give-away regardless of the clarity of the picture, is that Oscar Peterson was a much taller and physically larger individual than Django.