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• placidothecat New

  February 2010 Posts: 45

  Listening suggestions:
  
  * Baro Ferret
  * Jacques Montagne
  * Joseph Reinhardt!
• stubla Prodigy Godefroy Maruejouls

  February 2010 edited February 2010 Posts: 386

  Baro Ferret was the most gifted of Djangos followers imo.An incredible composer of waltzes but not really a full on jazz player per se;and for me the great Henri Crolla who inherited the poetic side heard in the solo Improvisations of Django--again his jazz playing is not as convincing as his own neo classical pieces which owe more to french chanson and the classical composer Poulenc but beautiful stuff all the same.
  I find it interesting that when left to his own devices Djangos own solo pieces actually owed very little to Jazz.
  Stu

  http://soundcloud.com/stublag62
• pdaigle Montreal, QCNew

  February 2010 Posts: 233

  Don't forget Bousquet: lesser known but an amazing player IMHO.
  
  -p
• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  February 2010 Posts: 1,752

  In addition to the above, you could check out Sarane Ferret, and for post Django/pre Stochelo, see the many players on the Musik Deutscher Zigeuner box set...Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Hans'che Weiss, etc. Incredible stuff that both owes to Django and is something all its own.
• redblues ✭✭

  February 2010 Posts: 456

  For Django contemporary, I would have a look at
  
  - Oscar Aleman
  - Albert Ferreri
  
  and the various accompaniments to
  
  - Michael Warlop (violin)
  - Tony Murena (accordion)
  - Gus Visuer (accordion)
  
  not gypsy but...
  - Eddie Lang
  - whoever that guitarist was with the Mills brothers (excellent)
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  February 2010 Posts: 3,707

  For guitar my favourite is Oscar Aleman who mostly played a National resonator guitar in his earlier stuff and to get a sense of the style and phrasings I love listening to Stephane Grapelli

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed