Inspired by Django Reinhardt

Inspired by Django Reinhardt

This fleet-fingered guitarist's soloing style has had a prominent effect on innumerable players, as well as filmmakers conjuring up an aural portrait of vintage Parisian cool—hear “Bistro Fada,” from Midnight in Paris. But Reinhardt's influence has also reached more broadly into swing's history, especially when The Modern Jazz Quartet paid tribute to the elegance of his style with the lyrical “Django.”

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