Django Reinhardt (1910-1953)
Feb. 2nd, 2004 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taxladyI'm really glad I got Winamp. I've been a fan of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli since I first heard them back in the early seventies. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
swestrup bought me four of their CDs for Yule a few years back. I already had one CD. Well, the nuisance of putting CDs in the player kept me from playing the music very often. swestrup ripped my Django CDs and put them all, in MP3 format, onto one disk - all 75 songs. I've been listening to them non-stop at my computer for a few days. I had forgotten how much I really, really, like Django Reinhardt.
For those who don't know who Django Reinhardt is, this is from the Winamp biography:
Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe - and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul , George Shearing , John McLaughlin , his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. ...
In 1934 he formed a band called, "Le Quintette du Hot Club de France" with Stephane Grappelli. Django Reinhardt played guitar and Stephane Grappelli played violin. The jazz was "hot", not "cool". Anyways, it's great stuff.
swestrup bought me four of their CDs for Yule a few years back. I already had one CD. Well, the nuisance of putting CDs in the player kept me from playing the music very often. swestrup ripped my Django CDs and put them all, in MP3 format, onto one disk - all 75 songs. I've been listening to them non-stop at my computer for a few days. I had forgotten how much I really, really, like Django Reinhardt.For those who don't know who Django Reinhardt is, this is from the Winamp biography:
Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe - and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul , George Shearing , John McLaughlin , his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. ...
In 1934 he formed a band called, "Le Quintette du Hot Club de France" with Stephane Grappelli. Django Reinhardt played guitar and Stephane Grappelli played violin. The jazz was "hot", not "cool". Anyways, it's great stuff.
