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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...
...50th anniversary of a high note, Andres Segovia's first U.S. tour, and, as part of the celebration, the classical guitarist played before a sellout audience of 3,200 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
...Guitarist-keyboard player Jerry Harrison joins with Byrne to handle the guitar work, which is spare and economical to suit the New Wave fashion. Nobody stretches out for a solo on this record; the effect is to provide a tight ensemble sound to back the eccentric Byrne's lyrics. The music is danceable and listenable without being hard on the ears, but it isn't all that exciting. It reminds the listener of the blander moments of the new Steely Dan record, but with much sparer instrumentation...
DIED. Terry Kath, 31, self-taught composer and guitarist for the slick rock-jazz band Chicago; of an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Kath, a native Chicagoan who helped form the popular band eleven years ago, had been drinking with friends when he put what he believed was an unloaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger...
...announcing: "You can all stop staring at us and just relax and have some fun." Sure enough, the Pistols' American debut was a tame, almost respectable happening. Johnny did not throw empty beer bottles at the audience. All he did was blow his nose a lot. Guitarist Steve Jones did not vomit, though in the past he has proved he has the stomach for it. Nor did Bassist Sid Vicious sputter forth more than a few four-letter words. Sid did manage to draw cheers when he removed his shirt and revealed the torso of a 90-lb. weakling...