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Django in Books
  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 by Patrick Williams(in French)
Éditions Parenthèses, 72, cours Julien, 13006, Marseille
Collection eupalinos (soft cover) , two different editions illustrated
ISBN 2-86364-612-5/ ISSN 1281-5853 (80 F), Version 2, 1998
Django
Reinhardt - Un géant sur son nuage by François
Billard (in French)
avec la collaboration D'alain Antonietto1993, Lieu Commun, dima, Paris 6-93
955-876-0
ISBN 2.86705.172.x
Those two books above are
respectively Edition 1 and 2 of the same book. The second edition has an updated
discography and minor corrections. it is possible that they have "borrowed" some
rare anecdotes .
Django
Reinhardt, Mythes et Réalités
by Roger Spautz
ISBN 2-87951-008-2
"Mythos und Realität." Luxembourg 1983.
238 p., (40) p. of photos. Gut recherchierte
Biographie, mit Discographie pb DM 29.80
table of content
- This book is also a must,
Delaunay's being the first for historical reasons. A lot of efforts went
into the writing of this one - congratulation to the author.
- I've never found this book
in book stores. The University of Montréal, in its Music book library
does own an original.
- I would call this one
Delaunay's volume 2. It starts where the other one left. Interviews,
souvenirs from people who knew Django.
- The discography at the end
goes is a nice complement to Delaunay's original.
- It includes a complete
musician list who did record with Django.
Jean 'Django'
Reinhardt: a contextual bio-discography 1910-1953
by Paul Vernon (not
by Paul Vernon Chester)
Google Books
This
volume gathers together and organizes in an easily accessible format all
known information relevant to the life and work
of the French jazz musician Django Reinhardt. Together with fellow musician,
Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt became one of
the twentieth century's most celebrated jazz artists with performances he
gave as part of the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.
Essentially discographical in format, this book updates the original work
compiled by Charles Delauney in 1960, and draws on
later work by Gould, Nevers, Royal and Rust, to detail all known recordings
by Reinhardt, together with known film, radio and
television appearances. For each entry Paul Vernon provides, where known,
the location of the recording,
the date, the artist credit as it appears on the label of the original
issue, the performers and the instruments played by them,
the matrix number, the exact timing of the recording and details of 78, LP,
EP and CD issues.
Interspersed at the appropriate chronological points are biographical
details about Reinhardt and the political,
social and cultural climate of his time. This is augmented with excerpts
from reviews, letters and other documents to provide a
vivid context for his recording work.
The Music of Django Reinhardt
explores the story of the man and his music as never before. Benjamin Givan
shows how one of jazz's greatest guitarists created his unparalleled sound. This
book is an analytical study of his music, including his process, his
improvisational style, and his instrumental technique.
The book features transcriptions from records of
the 1920s through the 1950s and includes detailed discussion of selected
performances from one of the most important guitarists in history.
Benjamin Givan is Assistant Professor of Music at
Skidmore College. His writings on jazz have appeared in scholarly publications
such as Current Musicology and the Musical Quarterly, as well
as the popular jazz magazine Down Beat. He received his Ph.D. in music
theory from Yale University.
Django Reinhardt : Know the Man, Play the
Music
Book/CD pack. Django's exuberant solos and incisive
rhythm playing have fascinated and tantalized guitarists for half a century.
Leading jazz writer Dave Gelly considers Django's life and recordings and
explains exactly why he sounded the way he did. Meanwhile, guitarist and teacher
Rod Fogg shows you how you can achieve that sound with detailed transcriptions
of six celebrated numbers: "Djangology," "Sweet Chorus," "Bouncin' Around,"
"Minor Swing," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Nuages." CD includes all six tunes
accurately recorded from the transcriptions.
  Django: the
life and music of a Gypsy legend By Michael Dregni
Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician,
commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni
not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating
account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship.
He examines his long musical partnership with violinist Stephane Grappelli--the
one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the
evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette du Hot Club de France.
Indeed, the author spotlights Django's amazing musical diversity, describing his
swing-styled Nouveau Quintette, his big band Django's Music, and his later bebop
ensemble, as well as his many compositions, including symphonic pieces
influenced by Ravel and Debussy and his unfinished organ mass inspired by Bach.
Note the Dregni Illustrator restores Django's
Left Hand to full Dexterity!
 The
solos of Django Reinhardt are an endless source of inspiration and amazement for
any musician. In this exciting book, the author has compiled precise solo
transcriptions (in notation only), as well as a thorough analysis of each. There
is also a complete "how to" section that is like a book in itself. This book
contains some of Django's best work. It covers a period of 17 years, from
Django's first trio and quintet recordings to one of his last bop-influenced
sessions, "Live at the Club St. Germain." Multiple versions of many solos are
included to show Djangos' musical development over his long career. Studying the
music of the master of Gypsy Jazz can help lay a solid foundation for your own
sound and style.
Ian Cruickshant. A guide to playing the style and
information on many of the leading exponents. Includes many rare photographs.
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