Django Reinhardt was born into the lifestyle of his gypsy parents on January 24th, 1910 in a village of Belgium known as Liberchies. Django, Romani for “I awake,” has inspired and astonished various generations of musicians and lovers of jazz with his remarkable control of the guitar and the story of his upbringing. At just the age of eight, his parents moved near the stretch of barricades that encompassed the streets of old Paris. Up until he was about twenty years old, he had never really set down
After all of the things that Frankie has to go through, you would think he would have a little time to get refocused, but the excitement in the life of Frankie Presto never seems to stop. In The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom, Frankie has already left for America, got rejected by his fake aunt, and had one of his most prized possessions, his sixth string on his guitar, broken. Although he has been through so many rough times, his story has an amazing plotline that never fails to impress
The mercenary laughed. “I told you before Reinhardt. Such outdated virtues have no place in this world anymore. The only thing that matters is to get the job done, no matter the cost.” “Don’t bother trying to talk to him Rein,” said Tracer with venom in her voice, which socked everyone, even Reaper raised an eyebrow under his mask. “This isn’t Gabriel anymore. The Gabriel we once knew wouldn’t do the horrible things Reaper has done.” “I take it this is your coping mechanism Lena?” asked amused the
They play the music of Quintette du Hot Club de France Django Reinhardt known as gypsy jazz. Django Reinhardt was a jazz guitarist and composer and maybe one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century who started gypsy jazz also called gypsy swing or hot club jazz. Reinhardt named his band Quintette du Hot Club de France, resulting in Marty Liquori to name their Gainesville gypsy jazz group Hot Club de Ville to pay homage to Reinhardt. On Mondays there are typically four musicians: Marty Liquori
how to play the guitar so that he would be better prepared for his role in the film. Woody Allen created this character, Emmett Ray, and portrayed him as a cocky and selfish guitarist who was known as the second best guitarist in the world, behind Django
Music and literature have been known to either have a connection or some type of influence on each other’s artist. Many musical artist have based songs or pieces off their own favorite or famous literary scenes and or entire books, and many writers use music for inspiration for their work or find ways to incorporate music into their pieces. This relationship between literature and music has probably gone on since the beginning of storytelling and the relationship is still present and somewhat more
Clyde Jackson Browne was born on October 9, 1948 in Heidelberg, Germany to Jack Browne and Beatrice Amanda Dahl. Jackson's father was also a musician, a talent he inherited from his own father. Jack once performed with French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, and recorded with both Mahalia Jackson and Jack Teagarden. His father's love of Dixieland jazz and his jam sessions were most likely Jackson's earliest musical influence. His family moved to Los Angeles when he was three years old, and by the
telling Bill “Maybe you’re only interested for the sake of making small talk long enough to ask me back to your place to listen to some music, or because you’ve just rented some great tape for your VCR, or because you’ve got some terrific unknown Django Reinhardt record, only all you’ll really want to do is f***” (Ives 4). Everyone is brought up differently
Excuses, we all come up with one sometime in our lives. Girls make excuses constantly when they are being hit on or when a stranger starts a conversation with them. It is just our way of getting out of situations we are not necessarily comfortable in. In David Ives play, Sure Thing, we see that the main characters are struggling to hold an intriguing conversation with one another. Betty, always trying to find an easy way out of the conversation. Bill, always trying to find a way to start the conversation
Members of the group Weather Report went on to lead their own individual bands. Joe Zawinul's bands tried to encapsulate Weather Report while the groups lead by Wayne Shorter and Miroslav Vitous reflected a more conventional methodology. Later band members, for example, bassist Alphonso Johnson, drummer Alex Acuna, whose gathering Koinonia got extremely prevalent on the west coast, and bassist Jaco Pastorious additionally toured and recorded with their groups. Most striking were Jaco Pastorious'
Coleman Hawkins “I think he was the most interesting jazz musician I’ve ever seen in my life. He just looked so authoritative . . . I said, ‘Well, that’s what I want to do when I grow up.’”(DeVeaux, 35) Cannonball Adderley said these words when he first saw Coleman Hawkins with the Fletcher Henderson band at the City Auditorium in Tampa, Florida. Just as Hawkins influenced one of the greatest alto players in history, he has influenced many people to become phenomenal saxophone players. Lester
The Degradation of Music for Mass Consumption From the very first time that someone decided to experiment with a musical tradition, the cry has gone out that "true," "pure," and "good" music is dead to society, and that music itself is on a perpetual slide to oblivion. All apostrophe aside, this is a serious matter to consider. Music inhabits a significant place in all cultures. Musical style is very much a function of the Zeitgeist, reflecting the prevalent tone of the dynamics and pulse of