{"id":832,"date":"2007-04-11T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2007-04-11T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T12:52:08","slug":"etienne_patotte_bousquet_montagne_saintegenevive_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/etienne_patotte_bousquet_montagne_saintegenevive_\/","title":{"rendered":"Etienne “Patotte” Bousquet: Montagne Sainte-Genevieve <\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n <\/EMBED>\n<\/OBJECT>\n

\nIn the south of France during the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of\nGitan\nguitarists was also playing their own brand of Django’s music, blending\nin Corsican and flamenco influences and recording for several small\nlabels in southern France and Lyon. Because they were able to record\nduring this era of the lost generation, their music became influential\nin keeping Django’s legacy alive and in passing on a southern Gitan\nstyle. The most influential was Etienne “Patotte” Bousquet. Performing\nat the\ninfamous Marseille dive Au Son des Guitares, Bousquet played with such\nferocity that he at times broke all six strings with one strum of his\nplectrum. His music was based in Django’s legacy, but also incorporated\nmusette waltzes and Corsican melodies. He recorded a handful of EPs and\nLPs that kept songs such as Django’s “Montagne Sainte-Geneviève”\nfrom\nbeing forgotten. In later years, Bousquet gave up on life as a musician\nand became a shoe vendor in the Midi’s flea markets.\n

Django was from the Manouche or Sinti tribe of Gypsies. The Sinti have\ntheir roots in Eastern Europe. They have a distinct language and\nmusical traditions. Bousquet, along with the Ferret family and many\nother famous Gypsy guitarists, are from the Gitan tribe. The Gitan have\nroots in Spain. They speak a different language then the Sinti and have\nSpanish influenced musical traditions.\n

For more Bousquet see the excellent compilation CD Gipsy Jazz School<\/span><\/a>\n

The video archive is dedicated to Mary\nHoncoop<\/a>. She generously shared her large collection of Gypsy videos\nwith nearly anyone who asked. The video archive aims to continue her\ngenerosity now that she is gone.\n<\/p>\n

The Video Archive is devoted surviving video of Django Reinhardt and\nother masters of the Gypsy jazz genre. If you enjoy these videos\nconsider making\na donation<\/a>.\n

To view this video you need Windows Media Player software. Download for free\nhere: Windows Media Player<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the south of France during the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of Gitan guitarists was also playing their own brand of Django’s music, blending in Corsican and flamenco influences and recording for several small labels in southern France and Lyon. Because they were able to record during this era of the lost generation, their […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.djangobooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}