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Django Reinhardt

1910–1953 · Guitar, composer · Belgium / France

Listed under: Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche

Family: Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, about November 1946
William P. Gottlieb, Library of Congress. Public domain.

Français

Django Reinhardt naît à Liberchies, Belgique, le 23 janvier 1910.

La famille est sinté. En France on dit manouche.

En 1928 le feu prend dans la roulotte. La main gauche est brûlée. Le jour exact n’est pas le même d’une notice à l’autre.

Joseph, le frère, lui apporte une guitare. La technique change.

Paris, 1934: le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli.

En 1946, tournée américaine. Duke Ellington est sur l’affiche.

Il meurt à Fontainebleau le 16 mai 1953.

La musique sinté existait. Django la fait entendre au jazz public.

English

Django Reinhardt was born in Liberchies, Belgium, on 23 January 1910.

The family is Sinti. In France the word is Manouche.

In 1928 the caravan burned. The left hand was burned. Notices do not give the same day.

Joseph, his brother, brought a guitar. The technique changed.

Paris, 1934: the Quintette du Hot Club de France, with Stéphane Grappelli.

In 1946, an American tour. Duke Ellington was on the bill.

He died in Fontainebleau on 16 May 1953.

Sinti music already existed. Django made the paying jazz public hear it.

Written from: This archive — Reinhardt family · Checked: Wikipédia (fr) · Library of Congress — Gottlieb, 1946

Django Reinhardt — Echoes of France (La Marseillaise). Official Django Reinhardt channel.

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