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| Django, third from right, with his family |
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| Django playing violin for his son | |
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Very cool! Too bad there are no recordings of him on violin, as far as I know.
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ReplyDeleteGreat photo! Violin was actually Django's first instrument. Here's a link to a recording on which he performs on both violin and guitar (and also has a piano in it, somewhat of an oddity for Django). https://robertjandukarm.com/2018/02/08/django-reinhardt-plays-violin-and-guitar/
ReplyDeleteAin't this swell? Thank you, Mr. Mac. Back in the early 'nineties, I had a CD given away with a French jazz magazine (that's a magazine about jazz music ...) with uber-rare Django cuts, including the earliest known recording of him (I remember as an eleven year-old child, but this seems unlikely) playing banjo and/or violin. There must be a digital copy somewhere ...
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DeleteAmazing - you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant and on the internet!
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BTW - that's my great, great uncle Dimwiddle on the far right of the family photo. Is this the missing Django album? https://www.discogs.com/release/3617521-Django-Reinhardt-Chefs-d%C5%93uvre-Insolites?srsltid=AfmBOorAKjDer3oXZMou69xD_7PtgRI9CY4VvF3I8kgLyjdHfvsx6QNO
ReplyDeleteThat has to be it - I misremembered the banjo as being him though! Ah well ...
Delete... and I was only a decade out with the date.
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