[ 6] He passed away suddenly on 16th May 1953 due to a massive stroke. Another difficulty was that Django, used to playing the Selmer Maccaferri, the guitar that he made famous, was required to play a new amplified model for the American tour. For chords he developed a novel system based largely around 3-note chords, each of which could serve as the equivalent of several conventional chords in different inversions; for the treble notes he could employ his ring and little fingers to fret the relevant high strings even though he could not articulate these fingers independently, while in some chords he also employed his left hand thumb on the lowest string. Today, there is no other jazz musician who has a whole genre developed in his wake. The festival was organized by George Wein. Related Topics Death: Immediate Family: Wife of Django Reinhardt. In 1943 the tide of war turned against the Germans, with a considerable darkening of the situation in Paris. Enjoy. After Reinhardt died, his younger brother Joseph at first swore to abandon music, but he was persuaded to perform and record again. Django-style enthusiast John Jorgenson has been quoted as saying: Django's guitar playing always has so much personality in it, and seems to contain such joy and feeling that it is infectious. His legacy was in part, created when he was caught in a large fire at a young age. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. "Woody Allen movie resurrects music of jazz great Reinhardt", "Django Reinhardt Jattendrai Swing 1939 live", "The Hot Jazz: Le Hot Club de France, Vols. At this time, he had not started playing jazz, although he had probably heard and had been intrigued by the version of jazz played by American expatriate bands like Billy Arnold's. Musician. This article abides by terms of the Creative Commons CC-by-sa 3.0 License (CC-by-sa), which may be used and disseminated with proper attribution. Over the next few years, through his sheer will, he taught himself to overcome his handicap by using only his thumb and the remaining two fingers to play the instruments. To scrape together a little money, Bella had been making artificial flowers out of paper and highly flammable celluloid. In the climax of the movies, his hands are smashed by his enemies and he is forced to fire a gun with his wounded hands. [55] The Allman Brothers Band song "Jessica" was written by Dickey Betts in tribute to Reinhardt. . His wife is Sophie Ziegler (21 June 1943 - 16 May 1953) ( his death) ( 1 child) Django Reinhardt Net Worth His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. During this time, Django produced numerous recordings with the quintet in addition to forming other side projects with more conventional instrumentations. This aspect of the artist's work also motivated Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who was inspired by Reinhardt to keep playing guitar after a factory accident that cost him two fingertips. However, he did continue to compose and entertain audiences, although irregularly, and in 1948 recruited a few Italian jazz players (on bass, piano, and snare drum) along with compatriot Grappelli on violin to record one of his most acclaimed contributions to the jazz world, "Djangology." Film Review: 'Django'. Two of his fingers were badly burnt and he thought that he would never be able to play the guitar again. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. With violinist Stphane Grappelli,[1] Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The British guitarist Diz Disley plays in a style based on Reinhardt's technique and he collaborated on numerous projects with Stphane Grappelli; Reinhardt also had an influence on other styles and musical genres, including Western Swing, notably in the work of Bob Wills. Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola says that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influenced by Reinhardt. His music suffered as he became increasingly moody and unreliable. Nevertheless, Reinhardt kept playing. By his early teens, he had started playing in clubs across Paris. One song in particular, Louis Armstrong's "Indian Cradle Song," stirred Django to the point that he turned to his friend and muttered in awe, "Achmon, my brother, my brother" This was Django's first encounter with jazz music, and his impression of it was that it represented incredible freedom. [46][47], Woody Allen's film Sweet and Lowdown (1999), the story of a Django Reinhardt-like character, mentions Reinhardt and includes actual recordings in the film. Django's seemingly never-ending bag of licks, tricks and colors always keep the song interesting, and his intensity level is rarely met by any guitarist. [14] During his 18-month hospitalization, doctors recommended amputation of his badly damaged right leg. This page was last edited on 19 February 2023, at 08:58. Though his virtuosity is stupefying, it is no less so than his creative invention. To cite this article click here for a list of acceptable citing formats.The history of earlier contributions by wikipedians is accessible to researchers here: The history of this article since it was imported to New World Encyclopedia: Note: Some restrictions may apply to use of individual images which are separately licensed. I have a favorite historical musician: Django Reinhardt. He had full use of only the index and middle. There's a lot of guys that play fast and a lot of guys that play clean, and the guitar has come a long way as far as speed and clarity go, but nobody plays with the whole fullness of expression that Django has. Djangopedia: A wiki for all Django's recordings with discography, charts, online audio and video, https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Django_Reinhardt&oldid=1040893, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. SonicHits. He also pushes himself to the edge nearly all the time, and rides a wave of inspiration that sometimes gets dangerous. [26] Reinhardt made a second attempt a few days later, but was stopped in the middle of the night by Swiss border guards, who forced him to return to Paris again. Henri Baumgartner (19291992), known professionally as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French gypsy jazz guitarist and the first son of Django Reinhardt by his first wife, Florine Mayer. It was then, in 1932 or 1933, that a friend of his invited him up to his apartment to listen to some records. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/django-reinhardt-8101.php. A small number of waltzes composed by Reinhardt in his youth were never recorded by the composer, but were retained in the repertoire of his associates and several are still played today. Django Reinhardt's income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. His work has influenced many such artistes like BB King and Carlos Santana. [6], Using a Selmer guitar in the mid-1930s, his style took on new volume and expressiveness. The recording was issued for the first time in the late 1950s. After living the nomadic life of his people, Lousson died in 1992 and was buried at Samois near Django Reinhardt and Joseph Reinhardt. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2017. http://brokeandbeautiful.com/2014/django-reinhardt-djangofest-northwest/, http://elcorreoweb.es/aladar/django-reinhardt-el-genio-gitano-del-jazz-i-BH1119366, http://alldylan.com/today-the-who-released-live-at-leeds-in-1970/. His music is a reflection of his serene nature, or at least his nature which compels him to seek serenity, which was most often in the comfort of his past. Archtop Magazine, March 1988; reproduced in Cruickshank, 1994, p. 47. I believe he should be rated much more highly as a be-bop guitarist. These performances drew large audiences. This was in part due to the help of a Luftwaffe official named Dietrich Schulz-Khn, also known as "Doktor Jazz," who deeply admired Reinhardt's music. He played mainly with a plectrum for maximum volume and attack (particularly in the 1920s-early 30s when amplification in venues was minimal or non-existent), although he could also play fingerstyle on occasion, as evidenced by some recorded introductions and solos. He is seen at the start and end of the 1959 French film Les Pittuiti's performing "Les Deux Guitares" with Eugne Ves,[5] and also appears briefly in a 1978 Sten Bramsen documentary Django made for Danish television. Severe rationing was in place, and members of Django's circle were being captured by the Nazis or joining the resistance. His music earned him a lot of popularity and even gained the young man worldwide attention. Seus pais, Jean-Eugne Weiss e Laurence Reinhardt, ciganos franceses, o criaram em meio ao seu acampamento. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43. With the addition of amplification, his playing became more linear and "horn like", with the greater facility of the amplified instrument for longer sustain and to be heard in quiet passages, and in general less reliance on his gypsy "bag of tricks" as developed for his acoustic guitar style (also, in some of his late recordings, with a very different supporting group context from his "classic", pre-war Quintette sound). His mother, also, was a talent in her own right, often performing in song and dance on the tailgate of the caravan. Director-screenwriter Etienne Comar works from a 2013 novel of historical fiction, "Folles de Django" by Alexis Salatko. Hugues Panassi, in his 1942 book The Real Jazz, wrote: First of all, his instrumental technique is vastly superior to that of all other jazz guitarists. Reinhardt's second son, Babik, became a guitarist in a more contemporary jazz style, and recorded a number of albums before his death in 2001. These "electric period" Reinhardt recordings have in general received less popular re-release and critical analysis than his pre-war releases (the latter also extending to the period from 1940 to 1945 when Grappelli was absent, which included some of his most famous compositions such as "Nuages"), but are also a fascinating area of Reinhardt's work to study,[38] and have begun to be revived by players such as the Rosenberg Trio (with their 2010 release "Djangologists") and Birli Lagrne. In his earliest recordings Reinhardt played banjo (or, more accurately, banjo-guitar) accompanying accordionists and singers on dances and popular tunes of the day, with no jazz content, whereas in the last recordings before his death he played amplified guitar in the bebop idiom with a pool of younger, more modern French musicians. Jean "Django" Reinhardt was a promising young musician when a crippling injury seemed to end his chance of having a music career. 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