Reinhardt

685 pages of transcriptions!!! Sheet music,no tab This title offers an in-depth analysis of the music and life of a gypsy music legend. Famed gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt has been the subject of numerous books, both in this country and abroad. His life was featured in Woody Allen’s film “Sweet and Lowdown”, and his music influenced guitarists within jazz and beyond. But never before has the story of Reinhardt’s music been so thoroughly and carefully explored.

He gypsy genius Django Reinhardt had a relatively short career - from the late 1920s to the early 1950s - but his reputation and influence have continued to grow since his death at the age of just 43. Today there are ever-growing hordes of followers, all of whom wish to play Django style. Django Reinhardt has never been more popular. The story Dave Gelly gets inside Django’s life with this new and fresh look at the guitarist, from his early musical precocity, the accident in which he lost the full use of his left hand, the formation of the classic Hot Club de France band with Stephane Grappelli, and Reinhardt’s subsequent development of a bebop-influenced style.