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Never heard of Al Casey, thanks for letting me know about him
From the liitle I know, Django was initially playing bal musette (with accordeon, guitar, violin) and when he first heard some of the early swing band records, he's got the idea of mixing the musette and the swing styles and came up with this gipsy jazz style during the early 30s
His first record with HCF (Hot Club de France) is dated 1934 and its tracks are typical of the swing music of that time. That's before Charlie Christian and others
Django 1934 - Les Premiers Enregistrements Du Quintette Du H.C.F. | Discogs
Duke Ellington was admiring and in awe with Django, up to inviting him to play alone with him and a rythm section at Carnegie Hall (1946). This page (in French unfortunately) describes thr event
[Django Station] - Inedits de Django / Un inedit de Django et d’Ellington au Carnegie Hall...!
There are very few audio records of it, like this one
Django Reinhardt - Honeysuckle Rose Carnegie Hall 1946 - YouTube
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03-26-2020 04:40 AM
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I might add that it is a passtime among all the GJ guitarists i know to say ‘I’m not really a GJ player’, ‘Keith Jarrett is my favourite musician’, ‘I’m off to India to study Konnakol for three weeks’ and ‘I much prefer Eddie Lang to Django’ and things like that. So my posts are par for the course.
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Originally Posted by mhch
So Django started on banjo. The right hand technique associated with GJ is classical plectrum banjo technique
so there’s also the Russian gypsy repertoire. A lot of the gypsys came in from Russia via Berlin and then France apparently.
As I understand it, Polka was the big form of popular music in the later 19th century and influenced all sorts of things including Gypsy music, Ragtime, Klezmer and of course, early jazz (also country music and Irish folk too.) The basic rhythm guitar/banjo groove is common to all, with stylistic nuances of course. Jazz introduces more of a West African triple time nuance to it, swing, which is not present in Ragtime. (African) American forms introduce more syncopation to the basic polka rhythm. You can certainly hear polka in the Hot Club rhythm guitars.
Bal Musette as you say was very popular in Paris. The gypsy waltz repertoire afaik emerges from this combined with jazz.
His first record with HCF (Hot Club de France) is dated 1934 and its tracks are typical of the swing music of that time. That's before Charlie Christian and others
Django 1934 - Les Premiers Enregistrements Du Quintette Du H.C.F. | Discogs
Duke Ellington was admiring and in awe with Django, up to inviting him to play alone with him and a rythm section at Carnegie Hall (1946). This page (in French unfortunately) describes thr event
[Django Station] - Inedits de Django / Un inedit de Django et d’Ellington au Carnegie Hall...!
There are very few audio records of it, like this one
Django Reinhardt - Honeysuckle Rose Carnegie Hall 1946 - YouTube
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I really like this
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Also I think Polka was big in Argentina which is where Aleman comes in....
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A 1928 recording with Django playing the banjo, pretty unusual to hear that !!
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This LP was one of the first non-Django Gypsy jazz records I heard back in the 90s.
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Oh god it’s turning into GJ thread.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Hush now.
Duved seems to have ended up in one of the places in the world where it is still possible to play music in a group.
Pretty mega, I think.
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Off to Zanzibar...if only for few minutes
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Originally Posted by christianm77
you refered to prevalent rhythms (in particular the 2 3 clave) is there anywhere you get into this in more detail? or could point me in the direction to find out more
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Originally Posted by christianm77
And as far as transferring all the Peter Bernstein type stuff to that guitar, I think that works too. Someone like Noe Reinhardt playing archtop sounds a lot like a modern straight ahead player.
The belgian players like Stochelo are not my favorites, although I admire their virtuosity. Definitely too notey for me but also amazing in its own right.
It's pretty wide open and not really snobby to me. The funny thing is I think people are more snobby about the rhythm guitar than the soloing. You can kind of do whatever you want with the soloing but the rhythm is very very subtle and difficult to get.
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I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove arpeggios. When this virus-crap is over
and I'm still alive, I'm going to buy my a Gipsy-Guitar.
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When I was younger, Häns'che Weiss was quite famous in Germany.
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Originally Posted by basinstreet
Check out
7. king porter stomp - opanije 7:23
8. muskrat love- opanije 8:05
9. hee bee jeebies- opanije 8:26
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Originally Posted by sully75
And I think for a lot of people that’s what GJ is. Well if that’s it, then OK, then I’m not a GJ player. I obviously play Parisian style String Jazz a lot... so most people understand that as GJ. So I play GJ but I’m not GJ? Bloomin heck it’s complicated lol.
There’s a fine line between following you own muse and being a special snowflake I realise.
(Actually among older people in our audiences they seem to be more aware of Grapelli as he was touring up to the 80s, so that changes it again. And he didn’t like playing with GJ style guitarists obviously.)
Anyway, i'm much more drawn to American swing styles as a listener. It's a taste thing. And all swing rhythm guitar is subtle to get right...
I have no idea if I get close enough in my swing rhythm playing to 'pass' - but people seem to like my rhythm playing, and give me money to do it, so let them sort it out in their heads. Some people sweat hours nailing a perfect Alsace la pompe, I'm busy trying to get the way Billy Bean plays rhythm... or Jim Hall, or Freddie Green. Or Howard Alden, or Matt Munisteri.
Most people outside of the GJ community, even many in it who are not guitarists don't seem to care so long as it swings. Look at the way Dave Kelbie plays rhythm for instance....
(Many modern GJ players don’t play rhythm the way Roger Chaput and Joseph Reinhardt etc did either... They use more complex voicings, more of a backbeat, etc. The style has evolved.)
Another thing is practical. I don’t often play with another guitarist, so I have to play a more intermingled style that weaves rhythm and lead together. So with that in mind I’m just not doing the same sort of job.
As I say it's a taste thing. For someone getting into jazz, I think it's a godsend to have such specific information, and I try and teach the 'right info.'Last edited by christianm77; 03-29-2020 at 12:27 PM.
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liked your videos , christian
funny you mentioned my other youtube, i just finished the first chapter of a series of youtubes im making about those ketu candomble code hookups in jazz, and "opanije " is chapter one. i use a little of these examples and a bunch of others
i actualy just recorded over the whole hot fives louis armstrong record minus three songs, just to show people how powerful these hook ups are , and , the most powerful hook up was opanije for that record.
i would say the whole world went after the louis armstrong aproach to jazz after this record came out , the hot fives. he innovated so many new things on that record, lead soloing , scating and the groove they were deep into was opanije.
now when people copied louis, they may not have understood and got the whole groove right, you know how it is, so , maybe django and the people in europe hit it right sometimes, maybe sometimes not , which means it wasnt wrong, it just became their thing.
luckily i saw the feed to this thread or i would have missed it.
i hope to have the "OPANIJE" youtube up here by tonight...lets see, thanks for referencing my youtube. the more im looking at this, the more powerful it gets, how about hook ups with art tatum, james p johnson , profesor long hair, dr john , ray charles , the flamingos, bb king, etc with these ketu codes , in black american music . its too strong to deny
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Josué Raquinard , David Reinhardt and Noé Reinhardt
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Not a guitarist influenced by Django but check out pianist, Horace Parlan who overcame a similar disability (a right hand crippled by polio meant that two of his fingers were non-functional) to create a unique playing style.
Parlan's solo starts around 8'00":
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Here's the link for the GJ Movie "Djangologists" with the Rosenber-Trio.
Hope it works. Have fun...
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Let's not forget Lonnie Johnson. His work with a variety of great female vocalists
was outstanding. Here's "Away all the Time" with Georgia White:
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I get the feeling Django was more influenced by Louis Armstrong than any prior jazz guitarist.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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I'm always amazed whenever I read about young GJ Guitarplayers. Hardly any scales, theory (whatever
their family gathered throughout the past) and just bloody practising "48 hours a day".
Then there are the scale-kids who pay a lot of coin for years of modal improvisation and
the ability of name all tibetan minor notes among the temple-gongs...you know what i mean.
A narrow path somewhere between. Have you found it ?
Rediscovering my lost passion for guitar
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