{"id":483,"date":"2006-05-15T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=483"},"modified":"2006-05-15T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-15T08:05:00","slug":"django","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/05\/django\/","title":{"rendered":"Django"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Django Reinhardt died on this date in 1953. He was forty-three years old. Reinhardt melded jazz and the wild \u00c3\u00a9lan of the gypsy music he grew up with in Belgium and France. He began to be noticed in 1930 when he was twenty. By the mid-1930s he, violinist Stephane Grappellii and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France were sensations of Europe. By the end of the decade Reinhardt was also working and recording with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Dickie Wells, Rex Stewart and other leading American jazzmen.<br \/>\nA few of his compositions\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nuages,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Djangology,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Manoir de Mes Reves\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d are in the basic repertoire. He was memorialized by John Lewis with one of the greatest jazz compositions, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Django.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The spirit and style of Reinhardt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing influenced innumerable guitarists, and several groups have patterned themselves on the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, but there has never been anyone like Django. If you need a reminder of or an introduction to his artistry, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhotjazz.com\/hotclubfrance.html\"target=\"_blank\"><em>redhotjazz.com<\/em><\/a>, scroll down to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, Lady Be Good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and hear the joy Reinhardt and Grappelli generated shortly after they found each other in 1934. The site offers thirty-eight other QHCF tracks as RealPlayer downloads (complete recordings, not mere samples). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB000083E81%2Fqid%3D1147672049%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dmusic%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D5174\"target=\"_blank\">This four-CD set<\/a> at a bargain price is a fine survey of Reinhardt with and apart from the QHCF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Django Reinhardt died on this date in 1953. He was forty-three years old. Reinhardt melded jazz and the wild \u00c3\u00a9lan of the gypsy music he grew up with in Belgium and France. He began to be noticed in 1930 when he was twenty. By the mid-1930s he, violinist Stephane Grappellii and the Quintet of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}