(Book). At last, the original biography of the great gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt is available again. This deluxe edition features three parts. The first part is devoted to Charles Delaunay's charming and authoritative biography of Django. The second part is a completely revised and updated discography of all of Django's known recorded works. The final part is devoted to over 150 photographs and illustrations of the master guitarist, many of which have never been published before. This beautiful book is without a doubt the finest literary tribute ever made to the eternal genius of Django Reinhardt and is a must for jazz lovers and guitar enthusiasts alike.

Django Reinhardt

Arts & Photography

Delaunay, Charles

Music

Da Capo Press

No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Club of France have meant "The Thirties" to several generations of listeners, influencing musicians as far afield as Larry Coryell, Leon Redbone, Eddy Lang, and Charlie Christian. This is the only full-length study of Django ever published in English, an unforgettable portrait of a wild and independent figure who never learned to read or write (friends forged his autographs), exasperated those people who lived by schedules, gambled away a week's salary in a night, but who played the guitar like no one before or since. The distinguished French critic Charles Delaunay, who knows more about Django than anyone alive, here provides not only the familiar outline of a life--the childhood travels in gypsy caravans, the fire that left Django with a crippled hand, the legendary temper and generosity--but he also collected scores of anecdotes about the sensitivity and musical gifts that were the basis for Django's appearance as a character in Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles. Who else but Django could charm his way out of a jail sentence by serenading the police officer with his guitar? The comprehensive discography at the back of the book completes Delaunay's picture of this "misrepresented and fantastic creature, at once so captivating and so divorced from the contentions of his age."

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

A deluxe and extended version of the original and best biography of Django Reinhardt. Updated by Charles Delaunay with a correct and complete LP discography, an appendix with new information, and literally dozens of new, and previously unpublished, photog

Children's Books

Hal.Leonard Corp.

(Book). At last, the original biography of the great gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt is available again. This deluxe edition features three parts. The first part is devoted to Charles Delaunay's charming and authoritative biography of Django. The second part is a completely revised and updated discography of all of Django's known recorded works. The final part is devoted to over 150 photographs and illustrations of the master guitarist, many of which have never been published before. This beautiful book is without a doubt the finest literary tribute ever made to the eternal genius of Django Reinhardt and is a must for jazz lovers and guitar enthusiasts alike.

Ashley Mark Publishing Company

Cours Élémentaire De Mécanique Théorique Et Appliquée ... (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Nabu Press

Traite de Mecanique Rationnelle (French Edition)

Science & Math

Traité De Mécanique Rationnelle (French Edition)

Cours Élémentaire D'astronomie (French Edition)

Die Schule Der Elementar-Mechanik Und Maschinenlehre Für Den Selbstunterricht ... (German Edition)

Schellen, Heinrich

Delaunay's dilemma: De la peinture au jazz (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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