A couple of other interesting things I think. Louis Armstrong met Django but the meeting didn't go well. Louis was blase.

Django always preferred drums to his illustrious rhythm section of comping guitars which he thought "stilted".

There is an interesting book about that period called "Le Misere De San Luis"
(Saint Louis Blues). It was written by a trombone player...can't recall his name now.

Rick, I'd go to Samois Sur Seine if I could but I can't get past the Gypsy cigarettes. Gypsies smoke quite a bit.

One of my favorite fiddlers in the world is Schnuckenack Reinhardt. He's an amazing jazz fiddler and what a name! Relative of Django.

Frank