Word: django
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wondrous artist, this Stephen Wade, who spills the heart's blood of passion and truth in the tradition of Charles Aznavour, Nana Mouskouri, Django Reinhardt and Woody Guthrie. He may have surfaced in Chicago, but his potential fame defies augury...
...Monday night. I am sitting at my desk. I am working, really. The radio is on. The DJ is talking about Stephane Grapelli, Django Reinhardt, and Le Hot Club de France. Then he plays the best music that I have heard on the radio since December, 1958, when I was born...
Grapelli and Reinhardt formed the quintet for Le Hot Club in 1934. Grapelli had just begun to make a name for himself as a solo musician. Django was already famous throughout Europe. A gypsy by birth, Django was the first great jazz guitarist. He revolutionized guitar technique. He had lost two left-hand fingers early in his life. This handicap led him to invent new ways of playing and resulted in new sounds, new progressions, and new rhythms. Grapelli's swinging, raggy violin worked well with Reinhardt's rhythmic guitar style. The two were a smash hit throughout Europe. They...
...talking again: "Grapelli's innate sense of swing, his incredible control just leave you agape." I turn the radio off and finish this column. Wouldn't it be nice if Brother Blue were right? Wouldn't it be nice if Louis and Django did jam every night, just for fun? "Humbling thought," as George Wald used to muse...
...spirit. Maritza is supposed to represent the wildness that Main longs for, the last chance of his life. From everything Director John Korty (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) and Writer Lawrence Marcus (Petulia) show us, she is as liberating as Lucrezia Borgia. Maritza gobbles fruit and chats about Django Reinhardt while Alex makes love to her; she also has a hard time staying out of jail for assaulting another bedmate. No prize himself, Alex is ever aware of his paramour's wanderlust; during bouts of passion, he keeps her handcuffed to the bedstead...