The birth certificate mentions: « Jean Reinhart, son of Jean Baptiste Reinhart, artist, and Laurence Reinhart, housewife, domiciled in Paris ». His mother, Laurence Reinhardt, was a dancer. His father's name was Jean Eugene Weiss, but he used the alias "Jean-Baptiste Reinhard" on the birth certificate to hide from French military conscription. Jean "Django" Reinhardt was born 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, into a family of Manouche Romani descent.
Video:Django Reinhardt Three-Fingered Lightning Early life With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including " Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and " Nuages". Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos (his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed after an injury in a fire), Reinhardt invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture. Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and is the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the idiom.
Jean "Django" Reinhardt ( Template:IPA-fr 23 January 1910 – ) was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer. Visit Raw Pages for more that need doing! See: Editing a JazzSkool Page for instructions. This is the raw source file and needs to be edited, verified, and reformatted.
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