Echoes of Spain on an open thread

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We are thinking of Spain on tonight’s Friday night open music thread.

By the supreme Django Reinhardt – Echoes of Spain (1939)

Django did more with three fingers than all of today’s musicians rolled up in one.

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“Django” is a Romany word—the first-person singular of the verb meaning “to awake.” Perf.

Woke.

Django should be part of the soundtrack of your life.

In October of 1928, he was caught in a caravan fire, which scorched the right side of his body and burned his entire left, or notemaking, hand. He was more than a year recovering. The pain must have been unbearable, and he permanently lost the use of his pinkie and his ring finger, except as a stiff claw to force around the fretboard. Not only did he have to learn to use his hand again; he also had to come up with an entirely new way of fingering chords, using two or, at most, three and a half fingers where he once had had five. Though Dregni tries to explain it, it still seems a fishes-and-loaves miracle that all those minor ninths and sixths were made by two gimpy fingers sliding up and down the fretboard. The accident was the turning point in Django’s musical life; it forced his hand in every sense, and, for a prodigy who had always let his fingers do the thinking, it was clearly mind-expanding when the fingers had to think again.

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livingengine
livingengine
6 years ago
mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
6 years ago

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IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago

Flamenco? A nice piece indeed. Espana wasn’t a nice place to be in ’39’ — then again neither was most of Europe.

TDD
TD
6 years ago

Spain. France last week had another car incident. Africa with many terror attacks.
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6 years ago
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Daizys Loyd
6 years ago
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Juan
Juan
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Evil Liberal
Evil Liberal
6 years ago

Love Django’s music.

Scott Wallace
Scott Wallace
6 years ago

People don’t realize that the form of music he played was derived from the early French Gypsy swing ( he was significantly unique as well) that was in turn half of the driving force behind american jazz. (Ken Burns PBS History of Jazz details how NOLO Jazz came about). Even the early swing dancing looks oddly like French and Romany/ Gypsy dancing at the beginning 20th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMM908tw9uU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3G50jBRuU

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