Interesting 2004 Article on Django from The New Yorker

Rip · September 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/06/gypsy

billyshakes · September 2023

Behind a firewall for me. Can you possibly pdf it and upload?

BillDaCostaWilliams · September 2023

Gypsy _ New Yorker article 2004.pdf

littlemark · September 2023

Thanks for posting the pdf.

Some obvious factual errors, like Maccaferri inventing the small hole, model jazz. And it has the resonator inside.

Also, I'm surprised Gopnik is throwing shade on Trad Jazz and big band players.

Buco · September 2023

Way too many stereotypes being brought up and pointed out, it's totally unnecessary. I suppose in all fairness, if I read this 20 years ago I might've been nodding my head.

Also it's odd that Florine was not mentioned by her name, instead "a brief teen-age marriage to another Gypsy girl", given that Django was injured while saving her.

billyshakes · September 2023

Thanks for the pdf, Bill!

scot · September 2023

I read a book by Adam Gopnik called "Paris to the Moon", and all I can say is I was glad I'd already been to Paris a couple of times, because if I'd read that book before I went, I never would have gone at all. How he became such a well-known writer is a mystery to me.