Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz

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Fulcrum Publishing, 2006 - Всего страниц: 208

Django Reinhardt was perhaps the greatest guitarist to ever live. A Gypsy who made his jazz guitar speak with a human voice, he was dashing, charismatic, childish . . . and doomed to die young after creating a legacy of Gypsy Jazz that remains vibrant today.
Gypsy Jazz is a music both joyous and sad, timeless and modern. It was born from a marriage of Louis Armstrong s trumpet with the anguished sound of Romany violin and the fire of flamenco guitar. Created amidst the glamour of Jazz Age Paris and reaching a peak during the horrors of World War II, Gypsy Jazz gave a voice to a dispossessed people. Today, Gypsy Jazz is more popular than ever. It has a legacy as strong as the Cuban sounds of the Buena Vista Social Club, the blues of B. B. King, or the R&B of Ray Charles.
"Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz" is a stylish collection of more than two hundred illustrations telling Django s story and the history of Gypsy jazz. Running through the Paris Jazz Age of the 1920s to the current worldwide renaissance of Gypsy jazz bands (including Django s grandsons, who are playing today), the images include rare archival photographs, modern images, posters, programs, tickets, guitars, memorabilia, paintings, and more.
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CONTENTS
7
NO 1014
15
Bals Musette
24
Quintette
44
Fame
60
Swing Valse
78
Golden Age of Jazz
93
The Promised Land
105
Gypsy Bebop
115
Les Frères Ferret
131
Familia
145
Second Generation
159
Mare Gilia
175
Renaissance
208
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Michael Dregni of Minneapolis, Minnesota has written several esoteric books on a variety of obscure subjects, including "Inside Ferrari," an engineering history of Ferrari cars, and several other motorcycling histories. John Dean of Calgary, Alberta, Canada is an advertising photographer.

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