Jazz A La Gitane Vol.2 - Gypsy Jazz Around The World

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Django Reinhardt 1935-1936

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About Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.

One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded 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." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "My Sweet", "Minor Swing", "Tears", "Belleville", "Djangology" and "Nuages" (French for "Clouds").

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. Hence, he played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured digits only for chord work.

Accordeon Swing Vol.2 - Tony Murena

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Record Label: Forlane
Year Released: 2007
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About Tony Murena

Tony Murena , is a Accordéoniste of Musette born in Italy in 1917 and died in France in 1970. Born in Borgo valley di Taro, in the province of Parma. Accordionist in the orchestras of ball haversack, his work belongs to the inheritance of the accordion. Indeed, his play very virtuoso applying to his own compositions approach all the kinds of the accordion music, although the waltz are prevalent in its repertory. Its most famous compositions are Indifférence and Passion, two waltz haversacks, but Tony Murena also composed of many Paso-doble S, java, Tango S, and even a frequently qualified waltz of Be-bop waltz: The Infidel. This artist also approaches the repertory swing during all the period of his life, in particular as from the period of the Second world war.

Django Reinhardt 1937

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Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.

One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded 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." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "My Sweet", "Minor Swing", "Tears", "Belleville", "Djangology" and "Nuages" (French for "Clouds").

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. Hence, he played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured digits only for chord work.

Oscar Aleman - Videos

Note From Dada!
...και δύο μικρά αλλά ενδεικτικά videos του Oscar Aleman

Oscar Aleman (Από την Ταινία: Tres Αrgentinos Εn Montmartre - 1941)



Oscar Aleman Live (Improvisaciones Sobre Boogie Woogie)

Swing Guitar Masterpieces 1938-1957 - Oscar Aleman

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Year Released: 1998
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Για όσους αγνοούν τη "λατινική εκδοχή του Django" που φέρει το όνομα Oscar Aleman, ιδού μία αντιπροσωπευτική συλλογή για να γνωρίσουν αυτόν τον βιρτουόζο κιθαρίστα-τραγουδιστή, χορευτή και ηθοποιό. Highly Recommended!

Oscar Marcelo Alemán, (February 20, 1909–October 14, 1980) was an Argentine jazz guitarist. Oscar Marcelo Alemán, talented singer, dancer, entertainer, and guitarist, was born in Chaco Province in Northern Argentina on February 20, 1909. At the age of six, he was dancing and singing with his family's folk ensemble, the Moreria Sextet playing the cavaquinho, a Brazilian ukelele before taking up the guitar. By the age of ten, after his mother had died and father had committed suicide, he found himself an orphan working sporadically as a dancer and musician on the streets of Santos.

Alemán played two guitars - mostly the d-hole Selmer Macafferi (also played by Django Reinhardt), and a National Style 1 tri-cone resonator guitar. In 1924 Alemán met and began working with Brazilian guitarist Gaston Bueno Lobo. The duo was signed to the prestigious Argentine Victor label and performed under the name Los Lobos. On occasion, they would add violinist Eleven Verdure and recorded under the name Trio Victor.

In the 1930s, having discovered American Jazz via Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti, Alemán moved to Paris where he was immediately hired by Josephine Baker to lead her band, the Baker Boys at the Cafe de Paris. This provided him an incredible opportunity to play regularly with American Jazz musicians who would come to see Josephine and sit in with her band.

Alemán later formed his own nine-piece band which would play nightly at the Le Chantilly, just across town from where Django Reinhardt and his partner violinist Stephane Grappelli would be performing at The Hot Club of France with their Quintet. Although these two geniuses of the guitar never recorded together, they became close friends.

In 1939, jazz critic Leonard Feather visited Paris. He returned to America raving about his new "discovery" and stated, "Alemán has more swing than any other guitarist on the continent." Alemán relocated to Buenos Aires in the early '40s and continued to record and perform with both a swing quintet, as well as with a nine-piece orchestra. In 1972 at age 63, Alemán recorded a new album which met rave reviews and helped re-launch his career with the reissue of many of his previous recordings, along with concert dates and television appearances.

He continued to teach and perform in his native Buenos Aires until his death in 1980,at 71 years old.

Gypsy Jazz (4 Cd Set)

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Record Label: Proper Records
Year Released: 2007
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Note From Dada
Απ' όσο φτάνουν οι γνώσεις μου στη γενικότερη δισκογραφία της gypsy jazz - gypsy swing, αυτή πρέπει να είναι μία από τις περιεκτικότερες και καλύτερες συλλογές του είδους. Recommended...

Fleur De Levand - Fapy Lafertin

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Record Label: Hot Club Records
Year Released: 1990
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Swing Accordeon 1926-1942

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Year Released: 1989
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Ένα "μοιρασμένο" δισκάκι ανάμεσα σε gyspy swing κομμάτια και κλασσικά swing ("In The Mood", "Begin The Beguine" κ.α.) με πρωταγωνιστικό τον ρόλο του ακορντεόν (Tony Murena, Gus Viseur κ.α.)

Django In Solitaire - Complete Recordings For Solo Guitar

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About Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.

One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded 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." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "My Sweet", "Minor Swing", "Tears", "Belleville", "Djangology" and "Nuages" (French for "Clouds").

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. Hence, he played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured digits only for chord work.

Jazz A La Gitane - Bands Of Gypsies

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La Gitane - Tchou Tchan Vidal

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Μια Κινέζική παροιμία λέει ότι: "το σκοτεινότερο σημείο βρίσκεται κάτω από τη λάμπα"...
Κάπως έτσι ισχύει για αυτόν τον φοβερό κιθαρίστα (όπως και για άλλους πολλούς) που κάτω από τη δικαιολογημένη "φήμη" του Django έμεινε κατά μία έννοια στο περιθώριο και την αφάνεια.

About Tchou Tchan Vidal

Paul Vidal remains one of the mysterious figures of Gypsy jazz, eclipsed in the spotlight by the shadow of Django. Like the brothers Matelo, Baro, and Sarane Ferret—and even Django’s own brother, Joseph “Nin-Nin” Reinhardt—Tchan-Tchou’s contributions to the music have often been overlooked.
One reason for this is that Tchan-Tchou chose not to move to Paris to seek his fortune with his guitar. Like fellow Gypsy guitarist Patotte Bousquet of Marseilles, Tchan-Tchou stayed primarily in the south of France, far away from the limelight and the recording companies in the capitol.
Paul Vidal was born in a Gypsy caravan on November 22, 1923, in Aix-en-Provence. According to legend, he looked from birth as if he was Chinese, earning him the eastern-sounding moniker of “Tchan-Tchou.”
Vidal’s father traveled throughout southern France with his family performing the ages-old Gypsy craft of caning chairs. But at night, his father picked up his guitar to play with other Gypsies in the family’s caravan. Django was a family acquaintance and reportedly Vidal père at times backed Django when he visited the south. As a youth, Tchan-Tchou learned to play guitar from watching his father and Django.
By the time he was 23, Vidal was playing with two other guitarists in the city of Lyon as the Hot Club de Jazz de Lyon, mimicking the name and musical style of Django’s Hot Club de France. He continued to play in Lyon and throughout the French south for the next several decades, appearing in cafes and dancehalls and on radio and television broadcasts, including Radio Monte Carlo concerts.
Tchan-Tchou recorded only sporadically. His first release came in 1966 or 1967 on local Lyonnais label JBP was a 45rpm EP covering Django’s “Nuages” among other jazz standards.
He released his first full album, Guitare Party (Bel Air 411 053; re-released as Musidisc CV1098), in the late 1960s or early 1970s, playing an acoustic guitar on a variety of jazz standards such as “Premier Rendez-vous,” “Besame Mucho,” and “La Complainte De Mackie.” But it was in his own compositions like the fiery waltzes “La Gitane” and “Dolorès” as well as the Gypsy classics “Les Deux Guitares” and “Les Yeux Noirs” that his elegant style blossoms. His playing shifts in a blink of the eye between simple, restrained melodies and bursts of flashy, mile-long arpeggios, creating an air that is rooted deeper in traditional Gypsy music than that of Django.
Tchan Tchou also recorded a cassette of valses musette backing Gypsy accordion virtuouso Tony “Tieno” Fallone.
In 1980, Tchan-Tchou released two further albums, Swinging Guitars (Vogue VG 407 508634) and Nomades… (Vogue VG 508624), backed by his long-time accomplice, Corsican guitarist François Codaccioni as well as bassist Alf Masselier and Roger Paraboschi on drums.
Drums. On these albums, Vidal played an Ibanez ES-175 copy on more swing valse and French jazz standards such as “La Foule,” “Jeux Interdits,” and Gus Viseur’s accordeon anthem “Swing Valse.”
Again, however, it was Tchan-Tchou’s originals that shone on these later albums. His ferocious flourishes and rapid runs accent his compositions “Sans Probleme,” “Tant Pis ou Tant Mieux,” “Mes Amours d’Espagne,” “Le Yeux de Dolorès,” and “Le Guitare a la Main.” His style of playing, composition, and arrangement was uniquely his own, but would be echoed in that of his new accompanist, Moréno Winterstein.
“I busked in the cafés around Toulon,” Moréno notes. “One day I was playing at a terrace café when a short, well-dressed man, wearing a hat and a moustache, came up to me. He said, ‘You’re from Alsace. I can tell by the way you play.’ It was Tchan-Tchou, a gypsy guitarist who got his nickname because of his slanted eyes. I had head a lot about Tchan-Tchou and had listened to his records. I had often dreamed of meeting him. I could talk for hours about him. The same night we met, we played together and immediately hit it off. I was nervous and very impressed by him. He played two notes for ten of my own. I quickly understood that I was nothing next to him. I was like a young puppy jumping around like crazy while he took his time to carefully place his phrases.
“I decided to stay in Toulon. I found myself a camper and accompanied him for four years. He taught me the basics, in particular the art of waltzes, the notion of measure and the musicality of a phrase. It is when you are separated from someone like that you realise how much you learned from them. Today I still think of how he played and he remains a reference. I was extremely lucky to have met with someone like Tchan-Tchou.”

Valse Et Swing - Tony Murena

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Record Label: Sillex Memoire
Year Released: 1992
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Αν εξαιρέσουμε τα βαλσάκια (από τα οποία κάποια αξίζουν αλλά τα περισσότερα δεν ξέρω αν τ' αντέχουνε ούτε τα ψάρια του Σικουάνα) αυτό το δισκάκι του δεξιοτέχνη ακορντεονίστα Tony Murena έχει κάποιες καλές gypsy swing εκτελέσεις . (Εξαιρετικό το Gitan Swing)

About Tony Murena

Tony Murena , is a Accordéoniste of Musette born in Italy in 1917 and died in France in 1970. Born in Borgo valley di Taro, in the province of Parma. Accordionist in the orchestras of ball haversack, his work belongs to the inheritance of the accordion. Indeed, his play very virtuoso applying to his own compositions approach all the kinds of the accordion music, although the waltz are prevalent in its repertory. Its most famous compositions are Indifférence and Passion, two waltz haversacks, but Tony Murena also composed of many Paso-doble S, java, Tango S, and even a frequently qualified waltz of Be-bop waltz: The Infidel. This artist also approaches the repertory swing during all the period of his life, in particular as from the period of the Second world war.

The Swingin' Violin Of Helmy's Bebop (1948-1952) - Helmut Zacharias

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Αυτός ο δίσκος σίγουρα δεν είναι ένας αμειγώς gypsy swing δίσκος, αναρτήθηκε όμως γιατί περιέχει 2-3 gypsy swing εκτελέσεις και κάποιες μάλιστα (π.χ. Dark Eyes) αξίζουν ένα άκουσμα. Κατα τ' άλλα (όπως άλλωστε μαρτυράει και η αξιολόγηση του) πρόκειται για ένα αδιάφορο cdακι.

About Helmut Zacharias

Helmut Zacharias (January 27, 1920-February 28, 2002) was a German violinist. He started having lessons at the age of 4. At 6 he played at the cabaret Faun in Berlin and had his first radio broadcast five years later. In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. He played together with many other famous artists, including Yehudi Menuhin and had his own TV show from 1968 to 1973. He died in 2002 in Tessin, Switzerland.

Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - J'attendrai (1939)

Note from Dada!

Από τις λιγοστές αλλά πιο περιεκτικές τηλεοπτικές "τζούρες" αυτής της φοβερής μπάντας.
Njoy ή αλλιώς σουινγκάρετε μωρά μου! (που θα έλεγε κι ένα φίλος...)

Swinging With Stephane Grappelli - Django Reinhardt

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Year Released: 2007
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About Stephane Grapelli
Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was one of the first (and arguably the most famous) of all-string jazz bands.

Early Years
Grappelli was born in Paris, France to Italian parents: his father, marquess Ernesto Grappelli was born in Alatri (Lazio). His mother died when he was four and his father left to fight in World War I. As a result he was sent to an orphanage. Grappelli started his musical career busking on the streets of Paris and Montmartre with a violin.^[1] He began playing the violin at age 12, and attended the Conservatoire de Paris studying music theory, between 1924 and 1928. He continued to busk on the side until he gained fame in Paris as a violin virtuoso. He also worked as a silent film pianist while at the conservatory^[2] and played the saxophone and accordion. He called his piano "My Other Love" and released an album of solo piano of the same name. His early fame came playing with the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt, which disbanded in 1939 due to World War II. In 1940, a little known jazz pianist by the name of George Shearing made his debut as a sideman in Grappelli's band.

Post-War
After the war he appeared on hundreds of recordings including sessions with Duke Ellington, jazz pianists Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani and Claude Bolling, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, jazz violinist Stuff Smith, Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam, vibraphonist Gary Burton, pop singer Paul Simon, mandolin player David Grisman, classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, orchestral conductor André Previn, guitar player Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar player Joe Pass, cello player Yo Yo Ma, harmonica and jazz guitar player Toots Thielmans, jazz guitarist Henri Crolla and fiddler Mark O'Connor. He also collaborated extensively with the British guitarist and graphic designer Diz Disley, recording 13 record albums with him and his trio, and with now renowned British guitarist Martin Taylor. In the 1980s he gave several concerts with the young British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.

Grappelli made a cameo appearance in the 1978 film King of the Gypsies, along with noted mandolinist David Grisman. Three years later they performed together in concert, which was recorded live and released to critical acclaim.

Grappelli's music is played very quietly, almost inaudibly, on Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here. The violinist was not credited, according to Roger Waters, in order to avoid "a bit of an insult".

In 1997, Grappelli received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an inductee of the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

Grappelli is interred in Paris' famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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About Django Reinhardt
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.

One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded 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." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "My Sweet", "Minor Swing", "Tears", "Belleville", "Djangology" and "Nuages" (French for "Clouds").

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. Hence, he played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured digits only for chord work.

Les Manouches De Saint-Ouen 1969-1983

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The Swingin' Guitar Of Marcel Bianchi

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About Marcel Bianchi

Marcel Bianchi was born in Marseille in 1911 to a Corsican family and like so many of the guitarists associated with the Quintette du Hot Club de France started playing at a very early age. By the time he was 7 years old, he was learning the mandolin and moved on to the guitar when he was 12. Although he did not have any formal tuition, he was soon playing locally in small groups and became known as "Le Mascotte". It was in the bars of Marseille that he first became interested in the Hawaiian guitar which he continued to play throughout his career.

In the mid-thirties he heard Django Reinhardt and immediately began copying his style of playing which may have prompted his to move to Paris in 1937. After attracting Charles Delaunay’s attention at an amateur jazz musician competition, he was offered a job as one of the rhythm guitarists with the Hot Club Quintet partly because Louis Vola thought he might bring some stability to the group. Bianchi recorded three times with the Quintet in April, 1937 and his rhythm playing with Baro Ferret elicits very different views as to its quality. It seems he used his Carbonnel at these sessions because although, like the rest of the Quintet's guitarists, he was contracted to use a Selmer in public, he actually preferred the Carbonnel.
Bianchi’s tenure with the Quintet was quite short since he wanted to make his mark as a soloist. He left in 1938 to begin a successful career as a free-lance guitarist playing with many of the famous Parisian jazz musicians of the day. During the War, he was conscripted, captured, escaped and finally fled to Switzerland where he began performing and recording with the Jerry Thomas Swingtette. He also obtained an electric guitar and was one of the first, if not the first, French guitarist to regularly play such an instrument. Once the War was over, he returned to Paris and began a very hectic and varied career which lasted until his retirement some forty years later.

In 1945, he formed his own Sextette for an engagement on the Champs-Elysee and began recording extensively, initially with Eddie Barclay and then with Vogue where he played his Hawaiian guitar. He also began travelling world-wide and became very popular in Eygpt; performing for King Farouk on several occasions. A successful tour of Italy and Corsica followed where he played classical guitar as part of the Tino Rossi ensembled. Upon his return to France, he joined the Jacques Helian orchesta and it was here that he met the singer Denise Varene with whom he formed a partnership which lasted throughout his career. In 1955, he and Varene left the band and began playing and recording together; travelling throughout the world to many countries including the USA and Japan. He also was engaged to play on the luxury liner "Rotterdam" for several years. During this period, Bianchi experimented with the then new technique of multi-tracking.

In the late 60's, he joined the Aimé Barelli band and stayed until 1972 when he rejoined Denise Varene to play regularly at the Carlton in Cannes. By 1988, they had both retired to Juan-les-Pins where he died on 23rd November, 1997.
Marcel Bianchi was the ultimate musical chameleon. One moment, he could sound very much like Django and the next he was Charlie Christian or a South Seas musician on his Hawaiian guitar.

Much of his later playing was in the "easy listening" mould, lightweight and nondescript but always executed with exceptional technical proficiency. This lack of an identifiable individual style, greatly reduces Bianchi's standing as a guitarist of true statue. However, his recordings in the late 30's and 40's playing in the Hot Club style show that as a soloist, he was very much the equal of other, more fêted rhythm guitarists from the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Like Django, Bianchi could not stand still musically. He was keen to embrace new ideas and, in doing so, compromised his posthumous status but created the most enduring and, no doubt, commercially successful career of all the Hot Club guitarists.

Retrospective Django Reinhardt 1934-1953

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About Django Reinhardt

Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 – May 16, 1953) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist.

One of the first prominent European jazz musicians, Reinhardt remains one of the most renowned jazz guitarists due to his innovative and distinctive playing. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli he cofounded 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." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "My Sweet", "Minor Swing", "Tears", "Belleville", "Djangology" and "Nuages" (French for "Clouds").

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. Hence, he played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured digits only for chord work.

Αφιέρωμα Gypsy Swing

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Αν δεν το καταλάβατε από τα «συμφραζόμενα» το επόμενο χρονικό διάστημα οι λεπτεπίλεπτες μεμβράνες των τυμπάνων σας θα πάλονται σε ρυθμούς Gypsy Swing. Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Oscar Aleman και πολλοί άλλοι που απαρτίζουν το πρώτο μικρό αφιέρωμα του μπλογκ.

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Gypsy jazz (also known as "Gypsy Swing") is an idiom often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "Jazz manouche," or alternatively, "manouche jazz," even in English language sources. Django was foremost among a group of Gypsy guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s through the 1950s, a group which also included the brothers Pierre "Baro" Ferret, Etienne "Sarane" Ferret, and Jean "Matelo" Ferret and Reinhardt's brother Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt.

Many of the musicians in this style worked in Paris in various popular Musette ensembles. The Musette style waltz remains an important component in the Gypsy jazz repertoire. Reinhardt was noted for combining a dark, chromatic Gypsy flavor with the swing articulation of the period. This combination is critical to this style of jazz. In addition to this his approach continues to form the basis for contemporary Gypsy jazz guitar. Reinhardt's most famous group, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, also brought fame to jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

Gypsy jazz, along with traditional Gypsy music, is learned by the passing down of knowledge from older generations. Many Gypsy musicians do not read notated music. It is more common for beginners to spend hours learning and memorizing songs from recordings and gleaning techniques from more experienced players.

In Gypsy jazz, guitar and violin are the main solo instruments, although clarinet and accordion are also common. The rhythm guitar is played using a distinct percussive technique, "la pompe", that essentially replaces the drums; however, in Eastern gypsy jazz, rhythm section is most likely covered by one or two cymbaloms, or (less frequently) a cymbalom and/or drums and an acoustic guitar (the cymbalom accompaniment technique is called in Romanian "ţiitură"). An upright bass fills out the ensembles. Although many instrumental lineups exist, a group including one lead guitar, violin, two rhythm guitars, and bass is often the norm.

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Year Released: 2007
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Λαϊκά Σέϊκ Με Μπουζούκια

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Year Released: 2001
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