Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels.

Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man.

* The " Selmer-Maccaferri guitar " is usually played by those who follow the style of Django Reinhardt.

* Django Reinhardt ( Paviot 1959 )

Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

On being asked to name the ten most influential guitarists of the 20th century, he named Django Reinhardt to the first position, and also placed himself on the list.

Selmer-Maccaferri guitars are usually played by those who follow the style of Django Reinhardt.

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

* The Selmer-Maccaferri guitar is strongly associated with Django Reinhardt and gypsy swing.

Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt are generally held to have initiated the use of the guitar to play melodies and improvisations over other instruments, the former using an early form of amplification, the latter playing forcefully on an acoustic guitar.

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* January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist ( d. 1953 )

* The Quintette du Hot Club de France is established and produced two of the most famous Jazz instrumental icons Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.

Lieber made a record with Django Reinhardt in the AFN Studios in Paris in the post Second World War era and started an event called " Jazz at Noon " every Friday in a New York restaurant playing with a nucleus of advertising men, doctors, lawyers, and business executives who had been or could have been jazz musicians.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

* Django Reinhardt performed this song, and it can be found on the album Keep Cool: Guitar Solos ( 1950 – 1953 ).

Other musical influences he later acknowledged included gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Belgian jazz musician Django Reinhardt, American concert singer Paul Robeson, and Black comedian Bert Williams.

Early recorded examples of free-form improvisation include solo guitar works by the French guitarist Django Reinhardt and a pair of 1949 recordings for Capitol by a group led by Lennie Tristano, " Intuition " and " Digression ".

This five-day festival celebrates the gypsy jazz style of Django Reinhardt, and featues workshops, concerts, and impromptu jam sessions around town.

Harmonicist Toots Thielemans, guitarist Philip Catherine and Django Reinhardt are probably the best known Belgian jazz musicians.

Paul's jazz-guitar style was strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, whom he greatly admired.

His solo on Body and Soul is a fine demonstration both of his admiration for and emulation of the playing of Django Reinhardt, as well as his development of some very original lines.

Stéphane Grappelli ( ; 26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997 ) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

His early fame came playing with the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt, which disbanded in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.

Especially the mode of the pathetic received a big boost with Sergio Corbucci's very influential Django.

Among the more commercially successful films with a hero dedicated to vengeance – For a Few Dollars More, Once Upon a Time in the West, Today We Kill … Tomorrow We Die !, A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die, Death Rides a Horse, Viva Django, The Devil's Backbone, Hate for Hate, Greatest Robbery in the West – he typically has to cooperate with people with other motivations.

Later years have seen some " return of stories " Django 2 with Franco Nero and Troublemakers with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer.

His whistle playing can be heard on recordings with Loose Tubes, Django Bates and his album with Chris Batchelor Life As We Know It.

Coxhill collaborated with other musicians including Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher ( of Mott the Hoople ), Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and its musical descendant The Dedication Orchestra, Django Bates, The Damned, Hugh Metcalfe, Derek Bailey and performance art group Welfare State.

* Bill Coleman with Django and Stephane Grappelli 1936 to 1938 ( released 1985, DRG Records )

Gypsy swing is an outgrowth of Venuti and Lang's jazz violin swing, the style emerging in its own right in Europe with Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

He was influenced by rock artists including Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, along with jazz guitarists like Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and George Benson.

The film tells the story, set in the 1930s, of a fictional jazz guitarist named Emmet Ray ( played by Sean Penn ) who regards himself as the second greatest guitarist in the world ( after jazz icon Django Reinhardt ) who falls in love with a mute woman ( Samantha Morton ).

Ray idolizes famed guitarist Django Reinhardt, and is said to have fainted in his presence and to have fled a nightclub performance with severe stage fright upon hearing a false rumor that Reinhardt was in the audience.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

Every May, the community honors him with the open air Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival.

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

* Quintette du Hot Club de France is established thus giving the birth of Stéphane Grappelli's and Django Reinhardt's musical carer

Perhaps the most famous ( and influential ) Sinti musician is the guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, who fused traditional dance hall musettes with American jazz of the day ( 1930s and 40s ) and, along with Stéphane Grappelli and the other members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded the style of music known as “ Gypsy Jazz ”.

His father frequently played the music of the Quintette du Hot Club de France and Taylor became inspired by their legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt.

It was through Isaacs that Taylor was introduced to Stephane Grappelli, erstwhile violinist in Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt.

Together with Hugues Panassié he initiated the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.

The Quintette du Hot Club de France, starring Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, were one of the house bands at the club.