The word, "Django" means I awaken in Sanskrit. The Gypsies began migrating westward from North India about 1,000 years ago. Some of their rhythmic patterns have remained unchanged since then, eg., in the form of Flamenco and dancing and Buleria [group clapping] in Spain.
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the guitar genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, he used only the index and middle fingers of his left hand for solos. In spite of this disability he went on to forge an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar), which has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With the violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by the critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz". Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages".
As a person who has limited feeling in my pinky and ring fingers on fret hand and has played bass guitar, this is highly inspiring to know. Thank you for sharing this comment.
be sure that he was... and the fact that we know is the demonstraction...... he was. Thank to Dijango, thank to Stephan thanks to all the band. Forever!
But sorry it's not Grappelli on violin BUT Michel Warlop et son Orchestre - Crazy Strings - 1936 April 17 - Paris th-cam.com/video/QQWzWoDRNGE/w-d-xo.html ---- and i think Warlop was better :-)
For those who don't know, he was a great help to the guitarist of Black Sabbath, a completely different musical genre, but both with a handicap in hand, due to an accident. Thanks Django.
Liner notes: Django Reinhardt , guitar soloist on all tracks, plus: ON SIDE A & B1-B2: Stèphane Grappelli (vln),V Pierre “Baro” Ferret, Marcel Bianchi (g), Louis Volá (d). Paris, France, April 21-26, 1937. ON SIDE B3: Bill Coleman (tp), Christian Wagner (cl), Frank “Big Boy” Goudie (ts, cl), Emile Stern (p), Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (d). Paris, France, November 19, 1937. ON SIDE B4-B8: Rex Stewart (ct), Barney Bigard (cl, d on B5-B6), Billy Taylor, Sr. (b). Paris, France, April 5, 1939. ON SIDE B9: Bill Coleman (tp), Dicky Wells (tb), Richard Fullbright (b), Bill Beason (d). Paris, France, July 7, 1937. TRACKS: SIDE A: 01. EXACTLY LIKE YOU 02. SOLITUDE 03. AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ 04. RUNNIN’ WILD 05. BODY AND SOUL 06. HOT LIPS 07. WHEN DAY IS DONE 08. ROSE ROOM 09. LIEBESTRAUM No.3 10. MISS ANNABELLE LEE SIDE B: 01. TEARS 02. MYSTERY PACIFIC 03. BIG BOY BLUES 04. MONTMARTRE 05. SOLID OLD MAN [SOLID ROCK] 06. FINESSE [NIGHT WIND] 07. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW 08. LOW COTTON 09. JAPANESE SANDMAN 10. MINOR SWING
100% dope collection of faultless apex-mode performances from DR & friends dropping old-school science on all 30 sweet tracks. Includes the 1928 Warren & Dixon hit "Nagasaki". Mad props & gratitude to our thoughtful host Classic Mood Experience for posting this well-representative Django R joint.
Not only was he the best guitar player, innovative beyond his time, he was in the category of the greats when it came to composing. If he had a patron like the classical composers, he could have learned to compose and arrange. It’s a shame we never heard his mass he composed and lost apparently.
What sets Django apart from other guitarists is not just his jaw dropping technique and his gift of playing anything that comes into his head instantly and flawlessly no matter how fast or complicated the most important thing is his abstract musical mind he played things that no other guitarists would think of
the first shredder before it was a term, but always in a really musical way. As you wrote, jam-dropping playing until this day. and his feel for any song, just astonishing and timeless. This is music that will will always be remembered in centuries!
You are spot on about his feel for any song. He always nailed the perfect tone whatever musical setting he was in. From backing a harmonica player to playing with a full symphony orchestra. He never missed@@khlavkhalash5215
I spent my youth listening to this stuff. After military life, I went to live in southern France, and listened to players who keep this music alive. Fantastic baby !
I learned from an interview that George Harrison was influenced by him! I think you can hear it best in his song "Drilling a Home" from Wonderwall Music.
There is a great documentary on TH-cam about his life with music and how he grew up with his family and musicians that loved him. His love to fish and and an accident when he had to relearn the guitar to play with only 2 fingers. Django was the best guitarist ever. I don't know any musician that has worked professionally that hasn't heard him play, and how he learned. I think the video will help guide one to a clearer understanding of his life.❤
After my son bought this on wax cylinder I started finding those funny-smelling, jazz cigarettes in his coat pockets. I can't wait til the war on drugs.
like the sad tragi-comedy of Charlie Chaplin which to this day it's impossible to re-create and match, it was just the whole era for that. the laughing with tears in your eyes, there are few who can make you do that, Django's music does it to me
This sounds perfect on headphones. I could melt. You really nailed this. Absolute perfection. Would enjoy hearing the rain and piano tracks separately too. Thank you
I love the soundtrack in this video; it flawlessly matches the visuals and creates an immersive experience. The music selection is simply outstanding and elevates the content, turning it into an unforgettable piece of art.
"Nagasaki"! One of my faves from this joint and interestingly, a huge 1928 Tin Pan Ally hit composed by Warren and Dixon and covered by every single band and performer of note from that and several following epochs. I mean, everybody was doing covers of "Nagasaki" including all the big names and one in particular who made it a central part of his act. But yeah, worth the price. It was considered a novelty song and was part of a popular trend at the time of whimsical songs about foreign/exotic locals composed by individuals with little to no knowledge of said locations.
A gifted connoisseur of the rift. He was labeled as a doodler, or rift- raff with a guitar. Although showcased around the world including England, he couldn't actually sing a tune with the advent of sound recordings ijust introduced in America. After his rise to fame in 1920's, he died in East 43 St. NY. were he started. A guitar player.....
un authentique génie de la musique !!! le meilleur ! il y a eu Bach, Gainsbourg, les Beatles, Louis Armstrong et Django... les autres, il sont très bons, mais sans aucune mesure très inférieurs à ces 5 fameux génies que le temps n'a pas réussi à dissoudre !!! 🔵🔵⚪🔴
Indeed. I sometimes think of him as the Frank Zappa of jazz guitar during DJR's epoch: A singular, spectacular, superlative musical savant with extraordinary talent especially in the area of shredding like a (well-talented and very precise) madman. In short, what you said.
Like most great musicians, Django "played by ear". He imagined the music and then played what he imagined. He did not read music or know music theory. A musician who has a good enough ear and a rich musical imagination has no need of very much theory beyond the very basic names of the notes, chords and such, if even that. Too much thinking about theory and analysis of the music can and usually does inhibit creativity. Django learned and developed a tremendous number of runs, scales, chords and riffs that he could call upon at any moment. That he didn't know the names of the notes, etc. or care what they were made no difference. He's still one of the greatest guitarists.
@@123-p1n4i You are wrong on both counts. I was and sometimes still am a professional musician and played with and knew hundreds of others. I know of what I wrote. I'm not surprised, however, that you doubt my "play by ear" statement. You're not alone in this. You and others probably don't understand what that is, and like many things, it's very difficult to explain exactly what it is to anyone who has not experienced it. I have known and spoken to musicians who are technically proficient on many instruments, have great ears, and possess a great deal of knowledge regarding music theory. They can figure out and explain in great detail exactly what the notes, chords, intervals, modes, etc. are of any song, no matter how complex, and yet they cannot write a song of any worth, cannot improvise solos of any merit and do not understand the process by which others, many or most of whom do not possess even a small fraction of, or any theoretical knowledge create the most beautiful music. Hint: It's not by resort to theory. Django is a prime example of a brilliant musician and player who endlessly foxes and frustrates these expert theorists. Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, The Beatles, The Who (except John Entwistle who apparently knew some theory), Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Prince, Elton John, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughn, most of your favourite rock drummers (but Steve Gadd can read music), on and on, are among those who know/knew little to no music theory and did not employ it to make the great music that they made. They all "play(ed) by ear". To "play by ear" is to have a musical thought, to work it out on an instrument or in the voice and then, perhaps or perhaps not, later figure out in theoretical terms what was first imagined in the ear. With regard to most musical composition, the application of theory comes well after the initial musical idea has been thought of. To play music well, even to play music composed or played by others, it must first be "heard" in your musical imagination, in your ear. Unless simply playing from a written page, most musicians clearly "hear" the music in their head before playing it on an instrument or singing it. It may be a split second before playing or singing, seeming to the musician to be a simultaneous thing or it may take longer for it to form as a musical idea in the mind. No two musical experiences are exactly alike, and no two musicians do what they do exactly in the same manner, although the process is similar. I can imagine, say, Beethoven, walking in the countryside or on a street and a melody, maybe lots of melodies come into his brilliant mind. He goes back to his place and sits at his piano, picking out those melodies, refining them, and fleshing them out with chords, harmonies, counterpoint, everything that will become the Moonlight Sonata or his Sixth Symphony, or whatever. The music first came from his imagination, this is the "by ear" part, really the "by imagination" part from which all else flows. It is only after that initial burst of creative musical invention, not necessarily a very long time, maybe a few minutes after, that the rest of it is worked out. Even Beethoven, a schooled, trained, past-master of theory and musical knowledge, created some of the greatest music of all time "by ear" . It's frustrating to me not to be able to pin it down and clearly describe it adequately in words and I apologize for not doing it better or more clearly (or more briefly). Creating and playing original music are deep, inner mind processes, and those kinds of things are so difficult to talk and/or write about so that others may understand. Well, I suppose that it doesn't matter. It happens the way it happens, and I suppose that there is no easy way to describe it. Perhaps it's not important to do so. It's enough to play and create music, and for others, hopefully, to enjoy hearing it.
I've been a guitar player (self-taught) for nearly fifty years, though nowhere near Mr. Rienhart's class. I did have a bit of a music education in school, where I played trumpet, sousaphone and French horn, but for some reason, the ability to read music eluded me; I could read the notes, but to put a tune together from the music written on the page. At age nineteen, I bought my first guitar and taught myself to play it. 80 percent of the musicians I have played with over the years are also self-taught. Others took lessons for years, but none were proficient at reading music or at theory either. I was in the orchestra playing guitar for a local production of RENT when one of the actors, a music major at Muskingum College, asked me, "How can you play without sheet music?" My response was. "How can you NOT?" I was frustrated on several occasions when one cast member or another had what I considered a silly question about a certain measure or time signature change (most were music majors or could at least read music). It was all I could do to not throttle them and tell them to just shut up and SING THE DAMN SONG!!!
Absolutly! Playing since 50 years guitar and piano like that - though my parents send me to music school - my real hearts at improvisation- hearts music : as Jimi Hendrix said: "you´ll never understand" cheers- and bye bye user el6 - you better go to materialistic peopple - gods somewhere else (you´ll never understand) 😎
Michel Warlop et son Orchestre - Crazy Strings - 1936 April 17 - Paris - Alex Renard (tp); Maurice Cizeron (as,fl,cl); Alix Combelle (ts); Michael Warlop (vln, leader) Emil Stern (p); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt (g); Louis Vola (b)
Had the greatest pleasure to go to a Stephane Grapelli concert at Calgary Jubilee Auditorium when he came by on tour on Calgary Alberta Canada!! Was awesome but too bad Django couldn't be there. The young man fronting with Stephane was awesome too but not the original. Still was most enjoyable!!!!
D.R. is imply the greatest! Everyone should check out Joscho Stephan ... his group swings like mad monkeys on the vine! He is in Django's style but has his own vibe and he does many genres as well. His 2 band-mates are monster players.
The biography may say the finger burns were some kind of disability but I think that is only in the mind of anybody who doesn't realize he was a total beast on the guitar. Please don't ever take down this video album. It helps preserve the music as it was recorded originally. 👍
...y hacia dúo con Hernán Oliva, en violín. Dos virtuosos. Las comparaciones son odiosas pero no encuentro mucha diferencia musicalmente hablando, solo que Alemán y Oliva nacieron en Argentina y Chile respectivamente.
Damned thing is hard enough to play with all of my fingers. This guy was a genius.
The word, "Django" means I awaken in Sanskrit. The Gypsies began migrating westward from North India about 1,000 years ago. Some of their rhythmic patterns have remained unchanged since then, eg., in the form of Flamenco and dancing and Buleria [group clapping] in Spain.
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity.
Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the guitar genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, he used only the index and middle fingers of his left hand for solos. In spite of this disability he went on to forge an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar), which has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With the violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by the critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz". Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages".
Thank you so much for this. Just added so much more to the beauty of this post. Bless you!
i was born in january 24 and he was born january 23
Thanks so much for this historia
As a person who has limited feeling in my pinky and ring fingers on fret hand and has played bass guitar, this is highly inspiring to know. Thank you for sharing this comment.
I second that. What a wonderfully concise and informative post. I love Reinhart's music.
I think Stephane Grappelli is forgotten most of the time but he was the perfect counter to Django in my opinion. What a Duo
be sure that he was... and the fact that we know is the demonstraction...... he was. Thank to Dijango, thank to Stephan thanks to all the band. Forever!
Is Stephane Grappelli the fiddle player?
Well, the violin is the other star on this album, but I'm still just guessin'...
Yes that's right.@@Who_Let_The_Dogs_Out_10-7
But sorry it's not Grappelli on violin BUT Michel Warlop et son Orchestre - Crazy Strings - 1936 April 17 - Paris
th-cam.com/video/QQWzWoDRNGE/w-d-xo.html ---- and i think Warlop was better :-)
Then there was Jung...
For those who don't know, he was a great help to the guitarist of Black Sabbath, a completely different musical genre, but both with a handicap in hand, due to an accident. Thanks Django.
Did he say he was an inspiration?
After Tony's accident he wanted to quit guitar, but someone gave him a Django record and the sound of METAL was born...
Ritchie Blackmore loved Django too.
willie Nelson , Jimmy page just to add
A great musician (I was an opera singer). He was 43 years old when he dies ???? SUCH SADNESS...
The sadness!
Romani people at that time often shied away from doctors.
Django was the Jimi Hendrix of his time. Mind-blowing! ❤️
Hendrix couldn't hold a candle to ole Django, more on the level of Robert Johnson
@@keeganbluegrass Hendrix may have learned a lot from Johnson but he was WAY beyond him.
Django's style is iconic and breathes life, joy, and happiness
Indeed.
❤
DJANGO REINHARDT is a miracle !
Liner notes:
Django Reinhardt ,
guitar soloist on all tracks, plus:
ON SIDE A & B1-B2:
Stèphane Grappelli (vln),V
Pierre “Baro” Ferret, Marcel Bianchi (g),
Louis Volá (d).
Paris, France, April 21-26, 1937.
ON SIDE B3:
Bill Coleman (tp), Christian Wagner (cl),
Frank “Big Boy” Goudie (ts, cl), Emile Stern (p),
Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (d).
Paris, France, November 19, 1937.
ON SIDE B4-B8:
Rex Stewart (ct), Barney Bigard (cl, d on B5-B6),
Billy Taylor, Sr. (b).
Paris, France, April 5, 1939.
ON SIDE B9:
Bill Coleman (tp), Dicky Wells (tb),
Richard Fullbright (b), Bill Beason (d).
Paris, France, July 7, 1937.
TRACKS:
SIDE A:
01. EXACTLY LIKE YOU
02. SOLITUDE
03. AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’
04. RUNNIN’ WILD
05. BODY AND SOUL
06. HOT LIPS
07. WHEN DAY IS DONE
08. ROSE ROOM
09. LIEBESTRAUM No.3
10. MISS ANNABELLE LEE
SIDE B:
01. TEARS
02. MYSTERY PACIFIC
03. BIG BOY BLUES
04. MONTMARTRE
05. SOLID OLD MAN [SOLID ROCK]
06. FINESSE [NIGHT WIND]
07. I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW
08. LOW COTTON
09. JAPANESE SANDMAN
10. MINOR SWING
Django and Stephan what a duo !
100% dope collection of faultless apex-mode performances from DR & friends dropping old-school science on all 30 sweet tracks. Includes the 1928 Warren & Dixon hit "Nagasaki". Mad props & gratitude to our thoughtful host Classic Mood Experience for posting this well-representative Django R joint.
Not only was he the best guitar player, innovative beyond his time, he was in the category of the greats when it came to composing. If he had a patron like the classical composers, he could have learned to compose and arrange. It’s a shame we never heard his mass he composed and lost apparently.
This music captures the spirit of the age. And what an age it was!
absolute vibes thank you django from 9/9/23 perfect for a hot day and getting my house work done
Stephan Grappelli had to have had a big influence on Benny Goodman. Those licks reminded me so much of Benny.
Tops, much gratitude.
What sets Django apart from other guitarists is not just his jaw dropping technique and his gift of playing anything that comes into his head instantly and flawlessly no matter how fast or complicated the most important thing is his abstract musical mind he played things that no other guitarists would think of
the first shredder before it was a term, but always in a really musical way. As you wrote, jam-dropping playing until this day. and his feel for any song, just astonishing and timeless. This is music that will will always be remembered in centuries!
Would love to hear what Zappa and he could come up with
You are spot on. He could weave in and out of any tune but he always stayed true to the melody@@khlavkhalash5215
You are spot on about his feel for any song. He always nailed the perfect tone whatever musical setting he was in. From backing a harmonica player to playing with a full symphony orchestra. He never missed@@khlavkhalash5215
Ein Geniusz ❤😢 Nikt mu nie dorówna a Styl jedyny i tak pozostanie 👍😍🌷
I spent my youth listening to this stuff. After military life, I went to live in southern France, and listened to players who keep this music alive. Fantastic baby !
I ENVY YOU MY FRIEND -
💞
To put it concisely: Nice! And I don't mean the city unless that's where you landed.
Django ha rinnovato la tradizione dei Manouche, jazz,gipsy e rom!! L'adoro!❤️❤️❤️
I learned from an interview that George Harrison was influenced by him! I think you can hear it best in his song "Drilling a Home" from Wonderwall Music.
Interesting and a great call on your part. The ears are strong in this one.
There is a great documentary on TH-cam about his life with music and how he grew up with his family and musicians that loved him. His love to fish and and an accident when he had to relearn the guitar to play with only 2 fingers.
Django was the best guitarist ever. I don't know any musician that has worked professionally that hasn't heard him play, and how he learned. I think the video will help guide one to a clearer understanding of his life.❤
Excellent documentary and a must-watch for all DJR enthusiasts.
After my son bought this on wax cylinder I started finding those funny-smelling, jazz cigarettes in his coat pockets. I can't wait til the war on drugs.
Love this😎👍❤️
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😂
Smart comment!
I love these rhrythms: slow or fast! Lean back and relax! Listen to some extroardinary musicians: Stophane Grapelli and Django Reinhardt.
Django, il maestro che ancora oggi ispira tanti suoi grandi emuli..... grazie per sempre.
Eternal thanks. Well said.
feels good!
Год моего рождния 1953.Разминулись мы с Джанго на два месяца((( Но он безсмертен в своей музыке. Мы вместе уже более чем 50 лет.
Masterpiece!
This music feels sad with smile
Just like the time period it was created in.
like the sad tragi-comedy of Charlie Chaplin which to this day it's impossible to re-create and match, it was just the whole era for that. the laughing with tears in your eyes, there are few who can make you do that, Django's music does it to me
Only things missing from this collection is Djangology, Nuages oh yes please and just a smidge more of space between the pieces. Wow perfection!
This sounds perfect on headphones. I could melt. You really nailed this. Absolute perfection. Would enjoy hearing the rain and piano tracks separately too. Thank you
Wspaniała muzyczka która podnosi na duchu.. Chwała Panu za dar Djanga naszym uszom i sercom.
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zgadzam sie
As JEFF BECK said - - Django was super human !
😘♥️🙏
Good stuff.
Very astute, dear music soul, swing on......
❤
Not a commercial interruption in sight!🏆
IKR? Niiiiiiice!
I love the soundtrack in this video; it flawlessly matches the visuals and creates an immersive experience. The music selection is simply outstanding and elevates the content, turning it into an unforgettable piece of art.
Like Bird and Diz, or Duane and Dickie, Django and Stefan were the perfect foil for one another.
There goes my soul, lost again, in love... such a Joy de luxe😍♥️😘
I was given this LP as a going away gift in 1983, its still one of my favorites.
Nice!
Boy, Django's worth the price !!!
"Nagasaki"! One of my faves from this joint and interestingly, a huge 1928 Tin Pan Ally hit composed by Warren and Dixon and covered by every single band and performer of note from that and several following epochs. I mean, everybody was doing covers of "Nagasaki" including all the big names and one in particular who made it a central part of his act. But yeah, worth the price. It was considered a novelty song and was part of a popular trend at the time of whimsical songs about foreign/exotic locals composed by individuals with little to no knowledge of said locations.
@@michaelkottler Pretty horrible what subsequently happened to the real thing...
Even if you don't know anything about music theory and jazz and guitars etc it still sounds just so right and good. Truly genius!
A gifted connoisseur of the rift.
He was labeled as a doodler, or rift- raff with a guitar.
Although showcased around the world including England,
he couldn't actually sing a tune with the advent of sound
recordings ijust introduced in America. After his
rise to fame in 1920's, he died in East 43 St. NY. were he
started. A guitar player.....
A guitar "doodler" (did you mean "noodler"?) and riff-raff? Really?
un authentique génie de la musique !!! le meilleur ! il y a eu Bach, Gainsbourg, les Beatles, Louis Armstrong et Django... les autres, il sont très bons, mais sans aucune mesure très inférieurs à ces 5 fameux génies que le temps n'a pas réussi à dissoudre !!! 🔵🔵⚪🔴
100% agreed. DJR was an absolute musical genius, a savant on par with others in the "musical genius" category.
Even tough i like the beatles and Gainsbourg, they have nothing to do with the others...
РЕСПЕКТ +1500!!!
💜🖤 Django Reinhardt. the man could shred a jazz tune on his guitar any day.
Indeed. I sometimes think of him as the Frank Zappa of jazz guitar during DJR's epoch: A singular, spectacular, superlative musical savant with extraordinary talent especially in the area of shredding like a (well-talented and very precise) madman. In short, what you said.
Thanks a lot!!! Always is good to listen Django and Graphelli !!! They are incredible great !!!
Thank you for that Veronica.. Just asked. It was Grappelli
Damn straight.
Who else hears hints of Georgia on my Mind in Limehouse Blues? Most definitely there in this version.
That's precisely what I thought during my 1st listen. Big-time "GoMM" feel in "Limehouse Blues".
I'm not hearing ANYTHING in "Limehouse Blues." Was it muted out for copyright reasons?
Like most great musicians, Django "played by ear". He imagined the music and then played what he imagined. He did not read music or know music theory. A musician who has a good enough ear and a rich musical imagination has no need of very much theory beyond the very basic names of the notes, chords and such, if even that. Too much thinking about theory and analysis of the music can and usually does inhibit creativity.
Django learned and developed a tremendous number of runs, scales, chords and riffs that he could call upon at any moment. That he didn't know the names of the notes, etc. or care what they were made no difference. He's still one of the greatest guitarists.
the statement that most great musician play by ear its at the very least controversial, most likely id say you lack information to back that up
@@123-p1n4i You are wrong on both counts. I was and sometimes still am a professional musician and played with and knew hundreds of others. I know of what I wrote.
I'm not surprised, however, that you doubt my "play by ear" statement. You're not alone in this. You and others probably don't understand what that is, and like many things, it's very difficult to explain exactly what it is to anyone who has not experienced it.
I have known and spoken to musicians who are technically proficient on many instruments, have great ears, and possess a great deal of knowledge regarding music theory. They can figure out and explain in great detail exactly what the notes, chords, intervals, modes, etc. are of any song, no matter how complex, and yet they cannot write a song of any worth, cannot improvise solos of any merit and do not understand the process by which others, many or most of whom do not possess even a small fraction of, or any theoretical knowledge create the most beautiful music. Hint: It's not by resort to theory.
Django is a prime example of a brilliant musician and player who endlessly foxes and frustrates these expert theorists. Louis Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, The Beatles, The Who (except John Entwistle who apparently knew some theory), Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Prince, Elton John, Brian May, Stevie Ray Vaughn, most of your favourite rock drummers (but Steve Gadd can read music), on and on, are among those who know/knew little to no music theory and did not employ it to make the great music that they made. They all "play(ed) by ear".
To "play by ear" is to have a musical thought, to work it out on an instrument or in the voice and then, perhaps or perhaps not, later figure out in theoretical terms what was first imagined in the ear. With regard to most musical composition, the application of theory comes well after the initial musical idea has been thought of. To play music well, even to play music composed or played by others, it must first be "heard" in your musical imagination, in your ear.
Unless simply playing from a written page, most musicians clearly "hear" the music in their head before playing it on an instrument or singing it. It may be a split second before playing or singing, seeming to the musician to be a simultaneous thing or it may take longer for it to form as a musical idea in the mind. No two musical experiences are exactly alike, and no two musicians do what they do exactly in the same manner, although the process is similar.
I can imagine, say, Beethoven, walking in the countryside or on a street and a melody, maybe lots of melodies come into his brilliant mind. He goes back to his place and sits at his piano, picking out those melodies, refining them, and fleshing them out with chords, harmonies, counterpoint, everything that will become the Moonlight Sonata or his Sixth Symphony, or whatever. The music first came from his imagination, this is the "by ear" part, really the "by imagination" part from which all else flows. It is only after that initial burst of creative musical invention, not necessarily a very long time, maybe a few minutes after, that the rest of it is worked out.
Even Beethoven, a schooled, trained, past-master of theory and musical knowledge, created some of the greatest music of all time "by ear" .
It's frustrating to me not to be able to pin it down and clearly describe it adequately in words and I apologize for not doing it better or more clearly (or more briefly).
Creating and playing original music are deep, inner mind processes, and those kinds of things are so difficult to talk and/or write about so that others may understand.
Well, I suppose that it doesn't matter. It happens the way it happens, and I suppose that there is no easy way to describe it. Perhaps it's not important to do so. It's enough to play and create music, and for others, hopefully, to enjoy hearing it.
I've been a guitar player (self-taught) for nearly fifty years, though nowhere near Mr. Rienhart's class. I did have a bit of a music education in school, where I played trumpet, sousaphone and French horn, but for some reason, the ability to read music eluded me; I could read the notes, but to put a tune together from the music written on the page. At age nineteen, I bought my first guitar and taught myself to play it. 80 percent of the musicians I have played with over the years are also self-taught. Others took lessons for years, but none were proficient at reading music or at theory either. I was in the orchestra playing guitar for a local production of RENT when one of the actors, a music major at Muskingum College, asked me, "How can you play without sheet music?" My response was. "How can you NOT?" I was frustrated on several occasions when one cast member or another had what I considered a silly question about a certain measure or time signature change (most were music majors or could at least read music). It was all I could do to not throttle them and tell them to just shut up and SING THE DAMN SONG!!!
@@tomdevol6035 If you played rock, blues, R&B and such, I suspect it was more than 80% of the musicians you knew who were self-taught.
Absolutly! Playing since 50 years guitar and piano like that - though my parents send me to music school - my real hearts at improvisation- hearts music : as Jimi Hendrix said: "you´ll never understand" cheers- and bye bye user el6 - you better go to materialistic peopple - gods somewhere else (you´ll never understand) 😎
un authentique génie de la musique !!! le meilleur !
The violin is also super!
Suspect the violinist is Stéphane Grappelli. They played together a lot.
Это точно Стефан Грапели играет на скрипке. Его легко узнать. Грапели неподрожаем.
Is it just me but I swear I’m hearing a version of Bob Wills. Now I’m wondering who influenced who. They are both great.
Michel Warlop et son Orchestre - Crazy Strings - 1936 April 17 - Paris - Alex Renard (tp); Maurice Cizeron (as,fl,cl); Alix Combelle (ts); Michael Warlop (vln, leader) Emil Stern (p); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt (g); Louis Vola (b)
Timeless enjoyment from a talented group. Could listen for hours of sheer aural enjoyment!!!
Had the greatest pleasure to go to a Stephane Grapelli concert at Calgary Jubilee Auditorium when he came by on tour on Calgary Alberta Canada!! Was awesome but too bad Django couldn't be there. The young man fronting with Stephane was awesome too but not the original. Still was most enjoyable!!!!
Django a legend that keeps going..this music is has a beat that makes want to shuffle no matter what…your mood changes the longer it plays…🌞
I'm surprised - I've never heard any Reinhardt music with vocals before.
Wow just wow !
Fantastisch
Enjoy the atmosphere💓
Great compilation!
Amazing! ♥
Thanks so much for this, although.
Great,fantastic!!!!!
Thank you tube for the precious memories you share. X
So inspiring ! I myself am missing fi gertips on my right hand and Arthritis in my left , i still love playing guitar 🎸.
Iconic jazz oh my godde
D.R. is imply the greatest! Everyone should check out Joscho Stephan ... his group swings like mad monkeys on the vine!
He is in Django's style but has his own vibe and he does many genres as well. His 2 band-mates are monster players.
Minor Swing, Mafia 1, mid 2000s
The Greatest....still.....BRAVI ad ENTRAMBI d'Acapulco!
Django, the original shredder!
😂so true!
Maravilha.....
Sounds a Send Ya! Wacky Woo!
WOWWWWWWWWWWW...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
django django django!
If you think FiveFingerDeathPunch is awesome..
Django is TwoFingerDeathPunch.
Make that ..."Happiness Punch!".
Just thought you'd want to know that the 20th track, Limehouse Blues, has no audio.
Parfait
Can someone remind me, . Thank you. please, the album Jalouse, who was the other violinist
It seems that Django was a major inspiration for Ren. Iron sharpens iron.
thanks for posting
Kiddie with a black heart in a car park by Primark
Jamming Django Reinhardt
@@Bodha01 Is it 'kiddie' or 'kitty'? Changes the meaning.
It swings it's happy and a=little he ha ess =
Nice
Yes my lord i think so
Gratidão por compartilhar 💚🐾🤗
40:09 ''Julie'' Les Colocs
Dave Murray from Iron Maiden sent me.
Dave's not here man 😕
@@christopherreed2694 C'mon on man............I got the stuff...........
Yes! True musicians listen to and learn from every genre of music!
ABSOLUTNÍ NÁDHERA!
I was playing smash bros melee to this, helped keep my anger under control more than if I hadn't, so that's cool. Thanks.
Como era un estudio de grabación en esa época?
Stephane Grappelli was no slouch either
Ce virtuoz. !!! Ceeloddie.!!! gaby
Who is the singer? And the other musicians? I"m pretty new to Django!
Singer = Freddy Taylor
They didnt play fair whith me
AMEIIIII ❣❣❣❣❣❣
Is the singer in I'se A Muggin Freddie Taylor?
The biography may say the finger burns were some kind of disability but I think that is only in the mind of anybody who doesn't realize he was a total beast on the guitar. Please don't ever take down this video album. It helps preserve the music as it was recorded originally. 👍
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Could you, for god's sake, not rip apart the magnificent tracks with those ads?
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Hola como andan guitarreros escucharon hablar alguna ves de oscar aleman de argentina !!!
Señoras y señores, tenemos a un conocedor
...y hacia dúo con Hernán Oliva, en violín. Dos virtuosos.
Las comparaciones son odiosas pero no encuentro mucha diferencia musicalmente hablando, solo que Alemán y Oliva nacieron en Argentina y Chile respectivamente.
django had a million dollar brain
AMEN!!!❤
Django could sure triple his triplets!
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Esse. Cigano. Era. Punk. E. Não. Sabia. Olha. O. Que. E. Essa. Velocidade. Talvez. Seja. Junto. Com. Step. Grappelli