[Dixielandjazz] Django centennial link to NPR story and audio

[Norman Vickers]

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From: Norman

 

Here is a link to NPR story and 5 minute audio clip about Django - it's his
centennial.

 

An irony-was that Django's tune Nuages was recorded in Paris during the
German occupation.  Also, the Gypsies were being rounded up for the
work/death camps similar to the Jews.  However, because Django was a jazz
star, he was performing in clubs under the "protection" of his German
captors.

 

 


Django
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p
hp%3FstoryId%3D122865782%26ps%3Dcprs&ct=ga&cd=uO91e-mKQbs&usg=AFQjCNGtejnqjN
CjGjZETRBcHxFjOuBOfw>  Reinhardt: 100 Years Of Hot Jazz
NPR
Lewis wrote the tune after learning of Reinhardt's death in 1953. "He was
the first great European jazz musician," the late pianist said in 2000. ...