Gypsy jazz: in search of django reinhardt and the soul of gypsy swing

Michael Dregni expertly traces the development of Gypsy Jazz not through straight musical history, but instead in a fascinating travelogue and detective story, following its birth with Django and its subsequent legacy, including all of the famous guitarists who have followed in Django's footsteps-Biréli Lagrène, Boulou Ferré, Dorado Schmitt, and others. INDICE: Prologue; Chapter 1: The Guitar with a Human Voice; In Search of Django Reinhardt; Chapter 2: The Boy With the Banjo; Into a Zigzag Paradise;Chapter 3: Bals Musette; Music from the Dark Side of the City of Light; Chapter 4: Jazz Modernistique; Revisiting the Babylon of Gypsy Jazz; Chapter 5: Songs of One Thousand and One Nights; Django Reinhardt, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, and Gypsy Jazz Under the Nazis; Chapter 6: Gypsy Bebop; From Dizzy and Bird to Django and the Gibson Generation; Chapter 7: Les Guitares à Moustache; Revolutionary Jazz Guitars for a Jazz Revolution; Chapter 8: Crossroads; On the Road to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer; Chapter 9: Dynasty ;Les Frères Ferret and their Musical Clan; Chapter 10: La Dernière Valse des Niglos ; Saints and Sinnersof the Malha Clan; Chapter 11: Au Son des Guitares; On the Trail of Patotte Bousquet; Chapter 12: The Unsung Master of the Gypsy Waltz; Tracing the Legacy of Tchan Tchou; Chapter 13: The Lost; The Secret History of Lousson Baumgartner and the 'Other' Family; Chapter 14: Minstrel; Bamboula Ferret and the Travels of a Romany Troubadour; Chapter 15: Resurrection; The New Elegance of BiréliLagrène, Stochelo Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, and Ninine Garcia; Chapter 16: The Music Thieves; Into America with Danny Fender, Johnny Guitar, John Adomono,and Julio Bella Chapter 17: Gypsy Jazz Rap; Syntax and the Search for 'Le Meilleur Chemin'; Chapter 18: The Most Dangerous Guitar Lesson; Jamming with David Reinhardt; Epilogue: Latcho Drom - The Long Road; Recommended Listening; Notes; Recommended Reading; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-975625-4
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés