Re: [Harp-L] Django Reinhardt

[Benoît FELTEN <benoit.felten@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you love Gypsy Jazz and if you love harmonica, I can only recommed the
truly amazing compilation Harmonica Swing, painfully built up by Frémeaux. I
reviewed it back in 2005:
http://www.musicalramblings.com/2005/06/harmonica_swing.html

Not only will you hear Adler and Django, but you'll hear Max Geldray and
Danny Kane, two masters of the chromatic swing jazz and many many more...

There's a young and talented French chromatic player who plays in this genre
called Thomas Laurent. He plays in a band called Oulitsa. Listen to "79":
http://www.myspace.com/oulitsa

Anyway, great to see there's some gypsy jazz love here. With the festivities
surrounding Django's 100, we have gypsy jazz concerts all over the place and
it's paradise !

Tonight, I'm checking out Angelo Debarre and Ludovic Beier, it's going to be
a blast !

Benoit



2010/1/24 David & Jackie Naiditch <french10@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> For those who enjoy gypsy jazz, I recommend celebrating Django’s 100th by
> seeing the European gypsy jazz virtuosos Dorado Schmitt (guitar), Samson
> Schmitt (guitar), Marcel Loeffler (accordion), and Pierre Blanchard
> (violin).  They are making a rare US tour to Minnesota, Santa Cruz,
> Hollywood, Costa Mesa, New York, and other locations.  For more info, see
>
>        http://www.djangobirdland.com/
>
> I love playing gypsy jazz on the chromatic and plan to attend the weekend
> jams at “Django in June” on June 18 and 19 at Smith College in Northampton,
> MA.
>
>        http://www.djangoinjune.com/
>
> I also plan to attend the Northwest Djangofest at Whidbey Island in
> September:
>
>            http://www.djangofest.com/nw/
>
> This festival has great jams and you meet musicians form all over the
> world.
>
> If you play gypsy jazz, please join me.  It’s lonely being the only
> harmonica player at these events.  (Gypsy jazz harmonica players are even
> rarer than bluegrass harmonica players.)  I’ve learned dozens of heads,
> mostly from Robin Nolan’s Gypsy Jazz Play-Along CDs, and then learned to
> improvise around the chord changes.  As typical in jazz jams, folks take the
> head, then go around the circle improvising, then ending by returning to the
> head.  Seems gypsy jazz musicians are comfortable with the sound of the
> harmonica because it resembles the accordion, one of the traditional gypsy
> jazz instruments.
>
> -- David Naiditch
>
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