the wandering gypsy...

Quintette du Hot Club de France

... music to live by ...


Limehouse Blues





Minor Swing




Django Reinhardt (guitar) & Stéphane Grappeli (violin)

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Reinhardt is on my short list of favorite guitarists. He is acknowledged as being the music world’s first great jazz guitar soloist. I agree. An injury from a fire left him with only two fully usable fingers on his left hand, yet he developed a style of playing that was phenomenal. For much of WWII, Reinhardt, a gypsy, found himself on the run from Nazi units that had been dispatched to find and kill him. Obviously, they weren’t successful.