The Making of Django Reinhardt
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The Making of Django Reinhardt
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Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#2It's strange seeing valuable articles being flagged as dead in the new section but somehow this gets promoted to the front page because of the Django framework shares the same first name as this Jazz musician.
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#3If you aren't happy, or want to be happier, just put on some Django Reinhardt and sit back for a second.
The Joe Pass tribute album is also absolutely incredible.
Truly truly some amazing music.
Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#4It's strange seeing valuable articles being flagged as dead in the new section but somehow this gets promoted to the front page because of the Django framework shares the same first name as this Jazz musician.
Or maybe because this is actually the fascinating story about someone who -- in true hacker spirit -- creates a completely new genre despite having only two fingers available for fretwork after he got burned badly.
Which was all news to me. So now I am going to spend the rest of the day finding some of Django Reinhardt's music.
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#5As as ipaddr points out it seems this got promoted by an algorithm.
But that aside I always felt like Django's music aged quiet poorly. A few country/blues/jazz and related styles from the first half of 20th century have. Big band - did not age well and effectively vanished as far I can see. Rag time, a very popular style for a couple of decades, gives me some enjoyment but mostly as a curiosity.
That is all in contrast to a massive body of jazz and blues music from the era that has not aged a tiny bit, like pretty much anything on Harry Smith’s "Anthology of American Folk Music". Say, for being zany and of the times "King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O" feels as real and pleasurable as anything and keeps finding its way into pop culture.
Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#6It's strange seeing valuable articles being flagged as dead in the new section but somehow this gets promoted to the front page because of the Django framework shares the same first name as this Jazz musician.
Or maybe because this is actually the fascinating story about someone who -- in true hacker spirit -- creates a completely new genre despite having only two fingers available for fretwork after he got burned badly. Which was all news to me. So now I am going to spend the rest of the day finding some of Django Reinhardt's music.
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Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#7As as ipaddr points out it seems this got promoted by an algorithm. But that aside I always felt like Django's music aged quiet poorly. A few country/blues/jazz and related styles from the first half of 20th century have. Big band - did not age well and effectively vanished as far I can see. Rag time, a very popular style for a couple of decades, gives me some enjoyment but mostly as a curiosity. That is all in contr…
It's interesting that you mentioned big band with Django, as I have both lumped together in my head as well; things that are much more impressive live than on a recording. Stepping into a venue where people are actually dancing to live to a jazz or swing band, and to not just hear but feel the deafening blast of horns are things you just can't get from a recording. I get a weird nostalgia for those live moments when I hear recordings.
Also FWIW I like Django, but I don't know if that it's aged poorly or if it's just mostly the same across a lot of his material and that the genre itself was played out over time. It's become "hokey" as some would call it and, perhaps, since we were never there we apply our modern perceptions to it.
That said, a few bangers still stand out on the recordings and some of the solos and tempo changes are cool, even by today's standards.
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#8It's strange seeing valuable articles being flagged as dead in the new section but somehow this gets promoted to the front page because of the Django framework shares the same first name as this Jazz musician.
The Django Framework is named after this Jazz musician
Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#9If you aren't happy, or want to be happier, just put on some Django Reinhardt and sit back for a second. The Joe Pass tribute album is also absolutely incredible. Truly truly some amazing music.
You can see live some incredible musicians who keep playing Gipsy Jazz in Django Reinhardt style - Stochelo Rosenberg, or Joscho Stephan.
Re: The Making of Django Reinhardt
#10As as ipaddr points out it seems this got promoted by an algorithm. But that aside I always felt like Django's music aged quiet poorly. A few country/blues/jazz and related styles from the first half of 20th century have. Big band - did not age well and effectively vanished as far I can see. Rag time, a very popular style for a couple of decades, gives me some enjoyment but mostly as a curiosity. That is all in contr…
Messy Nessy is a popular blog and Django Reinhardt is "considered by some the greatest guitarist who ever lived," so I find it odd that you'd declare that his music hasn't aged well. Adrian, Simon, Jacob, and the folks at LJW appreciated it enough to name their Python Web framework after him and we're still talking about it 18+ years later.
There are entire festivals that happen around the world dedicated to his music!
https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/19276/upcoming-...
https://sites.google.com/view/monktonarts/gypsy-jazz-festiva...
https://www.thejazzmann.com/news/article/gypsy-jazz-festival...