“I could relate to Django Reinhardt after losing two fingers ... and in lighter strings and tuning down he chanced upon a new sound for electric guitar. “I used banjo strings at first because I was ...

Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known ... Also, Reinhardt had given up his acoustic Selmer for the electric guitar, which may sound a bit jarring to those used to his famous ...

Gypsy jazz guitar extraordinaire Django Reinhardt (1910-1953 ... and experimented with the electric guitar, but ultimately lost momentum. Django swiftly developed a reputation for skipping ...

he was experimenting with electric guitar. Reinhardt died on a warm spring day in 1953. After a morning spent engaged in one of his favorite pastimes — fishing — Django went to a cafe ...

Django was a Gypsy, born Jean Reinhardt in Belgium in 1910 and raised ... liberated by the potential of the electric guitar and challenged by younger musicians. Along the way, Dregni makes a ...

On “Intents and Purposes” (Enja, 2015), he drew his repertoire from the electric jazz fusion ... playing the nimble music of guitar great Django Reinhardt with a brawny trio.

Nowhere has the legacy of Django Reinhardt been more alive than in the roster of ... EN VIVO has one disc of Luis Salinas leading the band on acoustic-electric guitar, and another of burning electric ...

Sponsor Message A Gypsy himself, Reinhardt is hailed as a ... purists to the acoustic sound of early Django; others have embraced the electric guitar and bebop styles; still others are performing ...

In the months leading up to his death, Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt lamented that ... but rebelled as a teenager by taking up electric guitar and emulating Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana.