DJANGO LEGACY VESTAPOL VIDEO Babik Reinhardt Bireli Lagrene Elios Ferré-Stochelo Rosenberg

DJANGO, LEGACY. VIDEO

Django Legacy. For Guitar (Flatpicking & Fingerpicking). Concert/documentary. Vestapol. Jazz. Video. Duration 52 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.98470VX).
ISBN 0786649127. jazz. 4.13x7.5 inches.
Django Reinhardt's name is synonymous with gypsy guitar. This extraordinary video explores the influence of this great jazz musician and how his music has spread worldwide. Babik Reinhardt (Django's son), Bireli Lagrene, Boulou & Elios FerrE, The Gypsy Kids, Gary Potter, Serge Krief, and The Stochelo Rosenberg Trio are featured as well as a rare short film clip of Django performing. 52 minutes. From the video cover: All over Europe there are guitarists striving to master every tune in Django Reinhardt's repertoire, every nuance of his style. Many do so for traditional as well as musical reasons, for Django was a gypsy and his music is a strong strand of gypsy culture. Watching gypsy musicians - and this documentary is full of them - learning, repeating and rephrasing Django's musical language, you come to see Django less as a jazz stylemaker and more as a cultural archetype. The focus of this documentary is the annual festival held in Django's honor at Samois-sur-Seine... from the devotees you hear most of the classics: 'Manoir de Mes RUves', 'Douce Ambiance', 'Djangology', 'Minor Swing', and, of course, 'Nuages'... But although tribal legatees have a lot of space here -- Django's son Babik, Bireli Lagrene, Boulou and Elios FerrE, Fapy Lafertin, the Dutchman Stochelo Rosenberg, the Tunisians Serge Krief and Richard Chiche -- some outsiders are cordially admitted to the circle, like the extraordinarily gifted Gary Potter from Liverpool. It's the details that gives John Jeremy's film its special character. That, and a deep affection for their subjects which he not only explains but passes on to the viewer. I can't imagine any lover of Django's music being other than delighted by this film.