BS: Put your guitar on the fire!

Subject: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: C-flat
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 03:36 PM

I'm not the greatest jazz fan but I do love guitar driven gypsy jazz in the Django Rheinhardt style. I'm wondering if anyone here has heard of the Rosenberg trio? I've been given a tape of sensational Django-style guitar playing featuring Stokolo Rosenberg which includes a lot of Rheinhardt's trade-mark songs; Nuages,Minor swing,Sweet Georgia Brown etc. This is a live concert recording entitled Gypsy Swing and, if anything, this guy's even better than Django! There, I've said it! I've been trying to capture a tiny bit of Django's "feel" on the few occassions I play jazz but the goalposts have just moved! Got to go now 'cos the fire's getting low and I need to throw on another guitar!

Subject: RE: BS: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: GUEST,CraigS
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 03:46 PM

Good stuff - but you could try the Argentinian Oscar Alemann (who was contemporary with Django in Paris), Birelli Lagrene, or Fapy Lafertin, to name just a few. Django may be dead but his style lives on. You might also like to listen to the duets of Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, or Joe Venuti's Blue Four, which is where the whole style originated.

Subject: RE: BS: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: 53
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:17 PM

I don't think I could throw my guitar on the fire.

Subject: RE: BS: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: greg stephens
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:23 PM

Listen to Eddie Lang and you will

Subject: RE: BS: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 02 - 07:33 PM

Wasn't that more or less the process by which Django came to develop his style of playing?

Subject: RE: BS: Put your guitar on the fire!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 01:26 AM

Very Good McGrath!

Love the Rosenburg Trio. Robin Nolan Trio as well.....they've been to Toronto several times.

Rick