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Of "Manouche" origin, Christophe Lartilleux-Hart, was brought up in a travelling circus (Hart-Goujon), run by gipsy performers and musicians. he was taught to play by his father, Yvon, himself guitarist (who played many years with the accordionist Maurice Vittenet, Jo Privat).
He had many musicals influences. From jazz fusion to bop, including flamenco, classic and hard rock, he played with some musicians as different as Yoshko Seffer, Alain Caron, Florin Niculescu, Laurent Korcia...
But his first love was always the gipsy guitar, and Latcho Drom (meaning "have a good journey" in manouche language) is the realisation of his dream to create the Hot Club de France sounds of Grappelli and Reinhardt's famous quintet.
Latcho drom was formed in the French town of Toulouse in 1993 by the gipsy guitarist Christophe LARTILLEUX, in order to revive the atmosphere of the famous Django REINHARDT Hot Club de France Quintet with Stéphane Grappelli or Gus Viseur...Christophe, surrounded himself with young talended jazz musicians, impassioned by Django' music, with his acoustic band, he revives the sound and the swing of those times, (especially by using the famous Selmer guitars), while developing his own personality and originality. Immediately the group was extremely successful, and has never stopped performing all over the world.
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Christophe is great. He's the first player I've seen play Django solo with two fingers. I still remember how exciting it was to see and hear him playing I'll see you in my dreams solo.
Great stuff! This one in particular might be one of my favourite recordings of music of all time:
Christophe was teaching at Django in June, I forget which year. His daughter Deborah came along too, helped with FR-EN translation, and she was good on bass.
2014. Missed that one...
Wow, this is so good! Amazing vibe!
Some great accordion playing. Sizzling guitar solo too...but still melodic. Great song, thanks for heads up, listening to it this morning.