Happy #Jazz birthday and good vibes to Gary Burton and to saxophonist Harold Ousley who is 85 today. JazzCorner celebrates the birth of Django Reinhardt Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, Reinhardt used only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos and invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called hot jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With violinist Stephane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz. Reinhardts most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including Minor Swing, Daphne, Belleville, Djangology, Swing 42, and Nuages. This video which was uploaded just the other day was made in 1952 and a series of vignettes with Django Reinhardt (rare video of him playing), Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet - Blue Note Records and more. #FANTASTIC
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:20:13 +0000
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