Family H
Lagrène
Biréli Lagrène
Manouche — Alsace, France
Style: Gypsy jazz / Jazz manouche
Alsatian Manouche guitar. Biréli absorbed Django young, then walked into fusion and post-bop without dropping the family right hand.
The Lagrène family is Alsace Manouche. Biréli was born in Saverne in 1966, a prodigy of the family style, then a jazz guitarist in the wider sense. Proof that gypsy jazz is a language, not a costume. Dates and jams: Gypsy Jazz Hub.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Biréli Lagrène
Guitar · b. 1966
Born 1966 · Saverne, Alsace, France
Manouche guitar. Absorbed Django young, then fusion and post-bop without dropping the family right hand.
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
c. 1978
New orchestra
Alsace prodigy on the stand
Biréli Lagrène groups
Child of the Manouche right hand around Saverne. Family language first, then fusion and post-bop.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Reinhardt — Manouche — Belgium / France; German Sinti kin
- Limberger — Manouche / Sinti — Belgium (and the Dutch border)
- Reyes / Baliardo — Gitane — Arles / Montpellier, southern France
- Ferret — Manouche — Paris