Django Reinhardt Avant-Garde?

[rsclosson]

[mr. beaumont]

A lot of Django's writing had cool, "Monk-like" angles...but RF is just nuts. I love it.

[rsclosson]

A lot of Django's writing had cool, "Monk-like" angles...but RF is just nuts. I love it.

Here is my favorite version

I like it because I found a pdf of the entire guitar part in notation and tab. It is going to be a LONG TERM project for sure!

[Rob MacKillop]

It's completely mad, and very Django, yet I can hear French composers such as Poulenc, Ibert, and even some more-playful Satie. I don't know who influenced who, maybe all to all. Very French.

[wintermoon]

sounds like Django meets Raymond Scott

[RJVB]

It's completely mad, and very Django, yet I can hear French composers such as Poulenc, Ibert, and even some more-playful Satie. I don't know who influenced who, maybe all to all. Very French.

Seems unlikely Django influenced Erik Satie

I'd say I'm hearing some Kurt Weill too, no?

[rsclosson]

I can play a lot of it from the pdf I downloaded. Of course I am nowhere near the speed of Django or the Rosenbergs. lots of repeated phrases.

[ChazFromCali]

That's really cool.
I remember hearing some electric guitar recordings he did in 1953 where he was using what sounded like a little bit of feedback. Too bad he shuffled off this mortal coil so soon. Django had a lot of music still left in him.

[TheGrandWazoo]

Big Raymond Scott vibes.