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Django Reinhardt

Romani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910-1953) · France · Musicians · Died at 43

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He played jazz guitar with two working fingers on his fretting hand - the result of a caravan fire at eighteen - and became the first European musician to shape the American art form on equal terms.

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Jean "Django" Reinhardt was born into a Romani family in Belgium in 1910 and spent most of his life in France. In 1934, he formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, among the first groups to feature guitar as a lead jazz instrument. He recorded in France with visiting Americans like Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. His compositions - "Minor Swing", "Nuages", "Djangology", "Swing '42" - became standards within gypsy jazz, and nearly every major popular guitarist since has drawn from his work. He died of a brain hemorrhage in 1953 at forty-three, leaving a style so particular that festivals across Europe and the U.S. still gather annually in his name.

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France
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
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Lived 1910 to 1953 · aged 43

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