Django Reinhardt is your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist, and they might just be on this list of serious fans.

Jazz lovers know that gypsy guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt was one of ... later (and well after his own death in 1953), Reinhardt’s lightning fingers inadvertently helped inspire the first ...

As a result Garcia lost two-thirds of his right middle finger. Garcia’s accident ... and the Jerry Garcia Band. Django Reinhardt was a virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who began his career ...

This is guitarist Django Reinhardt. Entirely self-taught, he was burned in a fire at the age of eighteen in his caravan, and he lost the use of two of the fingers on his left hand, and yet worked ...

Reinhardt is ... The legend of Django Reinhardt is the stuff of jazz folklore; the nomadic gypsy had limited use of the fingers on his left hand, yet still managed to create blistering solos, all ...

But Reinhardt was the inspiration to carry on. “I could relate to Django Reinhardt after losing two fingers, and listening to him inspired me to play more,” Iommi told Gibson TV in 2020. Like ...

Following a home fire that immobilized two of his fingers, Django Reinhardt invented his own method of navigating the guitar’s fret board — a style later popularized as “hot jazz.” ...

Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar ... There is little of the compulsive grit of a Django who recovered from fire burns to two of his fingers to play lightning fast ...

The first part was posted March 2. Finally, a feature film about the legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt! The timelessness of his music makes one too easily forget that it emerged in a very ...