Michael Dregni - Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Hard Cover Michael Dregni  - Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Hard Cover Default Manufacturer Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, Gypsy Jazz is music history at its best, capturing the history and culture of this elusive music--and the soul that makes it swing. Media > Books > Non-Fiction > Music Books dregni-gypsy-jazz 1000 49.95 DjangoBooks.com
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Michael Dregni - Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Hard Cover

Michael Dregni - Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Hard Cover

Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the worlds greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in recorded music. Beginning with Django Reinhardt, whose dazzling Gypsy Jazz became the toast of 1930s Paris in the heady days of Josephine Baker, Picasso, and Hemingway, Dregni follows the music as it courses through caravans on the edge of Paris, where todays young French Gypsies learn Gypsy Jazz as a rite of passage, along the Gypsy pilgrimage route to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where the Romany play around their campfires, and finally to the new era of international Gypsy stars such as Bireli Lagrene, Boulou Ferre, Dorado Schmitt, and Djangos own grandchildren, David Reinhardt and Dallas Baumgartner. Interspersed with Dregnis vivid narrative are the words of the musicians themselves, many of whom have never been interviewed for the American press before, as they describe what the music means to them. Gypsy Jazz also includes a chapter devoted entirely to American Gypsy musicians who remain largely unknown outside their hidden community. Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, Gypsy Jazz is music history at its best, capturing the history and culture of this elusive music--and the soul that makes it swing.

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