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Django Reinhardt — Limehouse Blues
Album: The Best Of Django Reinhardt
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Released: 1947
Length: 2:44
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How was he so good?

I aspire to someday be as good at anything as Django is at making music, and I will almost surely fail.
 pinto wrote:
I'm not a fan of this and I won't ever listen to it again, but the final product is superb in every way.  Solid 9.

 
Kind of a contradictory statement n'est ce pas?
                     


                                    Any criticism of this Man or anything he ever played, is ignorance.

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.                                                                      The Great Django Reinhardt
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I'm not a fan of this and I won't ever listen to it again, but the final product is superb in every way.  Solid 9.
Whoa..hearing some Lester Flatt on guitar... 
 GeneP59 wrote:
My feet are tapping under my desk right now  {#Roflol}

{#Bananajam}
{#Bananasplit}

 
You'd have to be asleep if they weren't-  great stuff! {#Dancingbanana_2}
                          Echt ist eine ganze Menge until
                         
                          Landing on to a manage takes place.
                 By then household already was a household word.
                  Why do you ply me with Limey in blues is a favor.
{#Bananasplit}
Music to do espresso shots by.  ; )
My feet are tapping under my desk right now  {#Roflol}

{#Bananajam}
{#Bananasplit}
 Coffers wrote:
Genius. And I still cannot believe he only has two fingers on his fretting hand....and I have all four/five......

 
He kept all of his fingers, but his ring finger and pinky were mostly paralyzed.  Yes, brilliant playing.
{#Bananasplit}
 meauclaire wrote:
I see no reason to ever play this again.

 
Aw, SO close..  let me rephrase: I see  every reason to play this over and over. {#Mrgreen}

This  has got just as much energy and jubilation in it as does the greatest rock'n roll, punk or funk, just to name a few this-drives-me-crazy genres that come to mind.
 {#Bananasplit}Wanna jump all around my kitchen when I hear this!
( first time I'm using  the banana icon, fits perfectly!)
I see no reason to ever play this again.
 shellyn1 wrote:



Ditto! Thank you Richard Thompson for telling me about Django!!!
 

Awesome! Was that in person or in concert?! Love this tune, and Thompson seems to have a true appreciation for this kind of mastery...
Genius. And I still cannot believe he only has two fingers on his fretting hand....and I have all four/five......
Respect. When music was played with the heart. I sometimes feel myself like( Woody Allen?),... travelling back in time to the 20s in an old, dark, full of smoke club in the Pigalle...must have been glorious and brutally honest.
Always reminds me of my father, he was so fond of this music. Wonderful memories...
 Bobert_ParkCity wrote:

Funny, I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition....
  We have 3 ways to make you expect the Span — No, 4 - 4 ways!



Apparently the D is silent.
But the links are to... caravans! Try this https://www.caravanpalace.com

 bluecshells wrote:
So he supposedly shot rats with a gun in his spare time.  It is very hard for me to separate this from the great music.  I will for the sake of my own sanity.
  I don't understand what one has to do with the other.

Besides, rats are vermin: they spread diseases, destroy property, etc. Shooting them is more humane than most other methods of extermination.


 Bobert_ParkCity wrote:
Well, I see they had whiskey, and bad cocaine even then... lots of cocaine, methinks.
 
Yea...back then it was LEGAL.
 ziggytrix wrote:
Hey guys, if you wanna hear some music by a modern outfit who is very clearly influenced by Django, check out Caravan Palace.  Been listening to their CD in my car a lot lately.  Stay away if you don't like electronic music though.  The guitarwork is very Django, but the beats are very electro.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caravan-palace.fr%2F

https://www.caravan-palace.fr
 
Saw them on Monday night and this was exactly what I thought.... great band!
Wanna have some fun?  Play Django for your four year old kid and chase him in circles around your house.

No need to hit the gym!
 RickyBobby wrote:
I think I like it.  I feel like I should be holding a drink and a cigar though...
 
You're not? Get with the program, man.
My son's namesake {#Clap}
Tasty Chocks
 Bobert_ParkCity wrote:

Funny, I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition....
 
Come on, Bobert. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! 
 fredriley wrote:
When Bill said "And now for something completely different" I thought I was going to hear "It's Monty Python's Flying Cir-cus!" followed by Liberty Bells :o)



 
Funny, I was expecting the Spanish Inquisition....
Well, I see they had whiskey, and bad cocaine even then... lots of cocaine, methinks.
feels like I should be watching a b/w silent movie,,,
Gosh, the last 5 or so tunes have been superb!!
This is another blinder.
I know Reinhardt is brilliant but I just don't like the music at all.  Lots of eras I would have loved to have lived in (and maybe did) but not the time or culture he comes from.
 Proclivities wrote:

...  I don't think that popular music is something that has to be taken "seriously"; it's culture, not oncology.

 
Best line ever. Thank you!

 ziggytrix wrote:
Hey guys, if you wanna hear some music by a modern outfit who is very clearly influenced by Django, check out Caravan Palace.  Been listening to their CD in my car a lot lately.  Stay away if you don't like electronic music though.  The guitarwork is very Django, but the beats are very electro.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caravan-palace.fr%2F

https://www.caravan-palace.fr
 

Jimmy Rosenburg's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Rosenberg) another. AKA "Sinti". Smokin'!
 shellyn1 wrote:

Ditto! Thank you Richard Thompson for telling me about Django!!!
 

And to Al Stewart/Laurence Juber (check out the former's "Between the Wars," featuring the latter for several Djangoesque, very period numbers), I owe thanks for the DR influence.
 ziggytrix wrote:
Hey guys, if you wanna hear some music by a modern outfit who is very clearly influenced by Django, check out Caravan Palace.  Been listening to their CD in my car a lot lately.  Stay away if you don't like electronic music though.  The guitarwork is very Django, but the beats are very electro.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caravan-palace.fr%2F

https://www.caravan-palace.fr
 
Thanx for the information. Sounds like I could like this.

Django Reinhardt is beyond any discussion in my opinion. This is truly outstanding and has so much STYLE{#Devil_pimp}
I think I like it.  I feel like I should be holding a drink and a cigar though...
So he supposedly shot rats with a gun in his spare time.  It is very hard for me to separate this from the great music.  I will for the sake of my own sanity.
{#Neutral} Remarkable...but not necessarily entertaining in this particular venue.

Am I the only one that gets nervous when Bill says "And now for something completely different"?  

In this case, I like it - definitely not something you are every going to hear on the FM dial. 


 Shesdifferent wrote:
No offense to the artist but SHOOT ME NOW!
 
POW !!!..or bang..

 cavetroll wrote:
Django is a true master!
 


Ditto! Thank you Richard Thompson for telling me about Django!!!
When Bill said "And now for something completely different" I thought I was going to hear "It's Monty Python's Flying Cir-cus!" followed by Liberty Bells :o)



Django is a true master!
No offense to the artist but SHOOT ME NOW!
 Stingray wrote:
PLEEEEEEEEASE, NOOOOOOOOT...!!!!!

Django and Bordello jump off a bridge!

pppffffffffffff...!!!!

PS
I am missing my watch!
And my gold-chain!
And my car!
And my wife!
 
Ha!!!

Always a pleasure to listen to Django.
Hey guys, if you wanna hear some music by a modern outfit who is very clearly influenced by Django, check out Caravan Palace.  Been listening to their CD in my car a lot lately.  Stay away if you don't like electronic music though.  The guitarwork is very Django, but the beats are very electro.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.caravan-palace.fr%2F

https://www.caravan-palace.fr
Well the "historical fog" is thicker on this than on the Cab Calloway (Minnie the Moocher) played earlier but it's not too bad. Definitely ages better than most music from the 1940s....

 

PLEEEEEEEEASE, NOOOOOOOOT...!!!!!

Django and Bordello jump off a bridge!

pppffffffffffff...!!!!

PS
I am missing my watch!
And my gold-chain!
And my car!
And my wife!
Excellent.  Also reminds me of some of those old black and white, herky jerky cartoons from the 20s and 30s...
Ya - dejango can allways make me smile
We love this album, thank you!
You don't pull the mask on the old lone ranger, and you don't mess around with Django.  A23.
Great Django.
Don't need a carpet - thank you, DJANGO!
{#No}
 crockydile wrote:
Sorry, I just see old cartoons when I hear this stuff. Can't take it seriously. TV ruined it for me. {#Cry}
 
I know what you mean about the "old cartoons", but that doesn't ruin it for me.  I don't think that popular music is something that has to be taken "seriously"; it's culture, not oncology.

OK Now you know!

Bill

Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's nickname "Django" is Romani for "I awake." He spent most of his youth in Romani (Gypsy) encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age, and professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him as a gift. His first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Reinhardt apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.

His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With rehabilitation and practice he relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. He played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and used the two injured digits only for chord work.



I have been trying to learn guitar and am trying to play Sweet Georgia Brown.  Go ahead and YouTube it.  First one that pops up is Django.  Awesome.  My hands work and I can't touch his version.  I'll report progress back in 5 years...
Hairfarmer wrote:

Not bad for aguy with only two functional fingers on his left hand huh?


Handy for insulting gestures too...

Yeah Baby, one of the BEST of all times ! if you don't get it , go back to school and study music .....

\Tally Ho ! 
 crockydile wrote:
Sorry, I just see old cartoons when I hear this stuff. Can't take it seriously. TV ruined it for me. {#Cry}
 
You seem to understand TV very well. Perhaps you should have stuck to it.

 captainskeezix wrote:

What a bizarre thing to say... Without Django, there is no Emmet Ray. Nobody knows that better than Emmet Ray.
 
wtf

Yep I'm still seeing Laurel and Hardy....painting their boat....humpin that old piano up those stairs etc.

great.
Sorry, I just see old cartoons when I hear this stuff. Can't take it seriously. TV ruined it for me. {#Cry}
Mister Beau-Django

  
Written by:aidan  Friday, June 29, 2007  .......................One of our favourite Django stories (and there are loads out there) tells of the time that the Belgian royal family, huge fans of his music, invited him to dinner in their palace in Brussels. When salad was served Django ignored the cutlery and began eating with his fingers. After several seconds of stunned silence the royals, not wanting to offend him, also began eating their salad with their fingers.

 Bleyfusz wrote:
It makes me feel good to hear Django Reinhardt on RP.

When I was a kid, one day a woman from our village neighbourhood and mother of one of my buddies dropped by and brought us two or three racks with single records someone had sorted out for garbage. And one of them - yes indeed! - turned out to be full of Reinhardt recordings, which by then were legend already!

Sadly, I don't know where they ended up. But I will always esteem that woman for what she did. She was not very cultured, precisely, but obviously felt an impulse to save something she thought could be precious though she would not appreciate it.

Now looking back, I think it was an experience that shaped me in many ways.

 
Thank you for sharing that. It is a beautiful story.

I just finished having a rather protracted conversation with a friend about folks doing things like what your friend's mother did.

My friend was searching for a term for this sort of behavior. I did a little research and I think the term reciprocal altruism works.

Would that more of us saw fit to act in such a manner. {#Wave}
 Dog_Ear wrote:
Remember this is ECLECTIC radio. The good Dr. is expanding your horizons here. Stop whining -you don't even HAVE to like like it.

{#Clap}

Adrian Holovaty would be proud.
It makes me feel good to hear Django Reinhardt on RP.

When I was a kid, one day a woman from our village neighbourhood and mother of one of my buddies dropped by and brought us two or three racks with single records someone had sorted out for garbage. And one of them - yes indeed! - turned out to be full of Reinhardt recordings, which by then were legend already!

Sadly, I don't know where they ended up. But I will always esteem that woman for what she did. She was not very cultured, precisely, but obviously felt an impulse to save something she thought could be precious though she would not appreciate it.

Now looking back, I think it was an experience that shaped me in many ways.

 Fiji5555 wrote:
Wow..........just wow!  I like it..........LOTS {#Daisy}
 
Not bad for aguy with only two functional fingers on his left hand huh?

Wow..........just wow!  I like it..........LOTS {#Daisy}
KPIG................"Please Stand By"
I guess most of you are pretty young -and/or don't have much sense of musical history. Remember this is ECLECTIC radio. The good Dr. is expanding your horizons here. Stop whining -you don't even HAVE to like like it. Read up on Django a bit -pretty big influence on a lot of what we still hear.

I feel better now -time for lunch! 
 jazzface78 wrote:
Emmet Ray blows this guy away ... {#Bananajam}
 
What a bizarre thing to say... Without Django, there is no Emmet Ray. Nobody knows that better than Emmet Ray.


 dolfan wrote:
Appealing. Now, Bill, dare you follow this with "The Triplets From Belleville"
 

Ooooh - I think I'll upload Belleville Rendez-Vous to the LRC!  {#Mrgreen}
 roseap wrote:
This is the song from LA Story, where Steve Martin is driving erratically to work, eh?
 

Ah, could be!  Been driving me nuts.  I thought it was from an old Woody Allen movie, like "Sleeper".  {#Yes}
Ready to shoot myself listening to this.....going over to the "other side" can't take this mix today!
This is the song from LA Story, where Steve Martin is driving erratically to work, eh?
Emmet Ray blows this guy away ... {#Bananajam}
What do you call this kind of music? I like it and want more! Feels like old cartoons!

 polymath wrote:
Must.... follow..... link.... to purchase......

 

you won't be sorry!

Why am I picturing Spanky and Alfalfa chasing Stymie and Weezer around in a circle?


a man with missing fingers / plays a strange guitar...
Must.... follow..... link.... to purchase......
Wow Django! Godlike!
Just NOT my thing.......
What a great way to start my day! First song I hear when I fire it up:)
Laurel and Hardy!
rgrace wrote:
He had the best right hand ever. EVER. His picking technique was just unbelieveable. It's the foundation of all good playing. His sheer velocity was unmatched before or since. If you ever think you're getting pretty good at this guitar thing, just slap in a disc and listen to this guy for awhile for a lesson in humility.
No kiddin'! But just as (or more) remarkable was his left 'fretting' hand:
At the age of 18 Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Bella, his first wife. They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Django apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbours were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralysed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burnt. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs. Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane. His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With painful rehabilitation and practice Django relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralysed. Hence, he used to play solos with only two fingers, and managed to use the two injured ones for some chords."
~ Wikipedia What a triumph of the human spirit!
Django is always a delight.
We named our cat Django. When he's bad we scold him by saying "Jean-Baptiste!"
musikalia wrote:
Django: what a cool name!!
Jerry Jeff Walker named his son Django. Cool.
YEAH!!!!
so THIS is where SLASH got the dangling cigarette idea!
dolfan wrote:
Appealing. Now, Bill, dare you follow this with "The Triplets From Belleville"
What a great, bizarre movie!! I need to rewatch that sometime.
You can play Django anytime...
Appealing. Now, Bill, dare you follow this with "The Triplets From Belleville"
A young Stevie Ray
Hey we need more Cowbell!!!
He had the best right hand ever. EVER. His picking technique was just unbelieveable. It's the foundation of all good playing. His sheer velocity was unmatched before or since. If you ever think you're getting pretty good at this guitar thing, just slap in a disc and listen to this guy for awhile for a lesson in humility.
Excelent, I love Django !!! a Guitar Master Thanks RP !!!
Get'em Django.
rgrace wrote:
Nobody else like him before or since. Django was the Man.
You got it. On tha button. Anyone else can go figure.
bokey wrote:
Gotta love a guitarist with 1 fewer finger than me
He didn't lose any fingers, just lost full use of a couple of them from being in a fire.
deadfdr wrote:
If you're going to play jazz from a variety of eras, why not play something contemporary from Pat Martino, guitar virtuoso, like "Starburst," "Joyous Lake," "Blue Maccaw" or "Consciousness" ?
Or Joe Pass, or Jimmy Bruno, or Tal Farlow, or Charlie Christian, or ... the list goes on. But who would represent the 1930s beyond Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang? That would be Django. Those dudes about invented the genre of jazz guitar. But I suspect Bill is not playing jazz guitarists from a variety of eras. He plays bebop horn players, and free jazz pianists, and dixieland trumpeteers...
Django: what a cool name!!
DoofusGeezer wrote:
OK, I give up. Why?
Go rent "Sweet and Lowdown". The Sean Penn character (who idolizes Django) shoots rats for fun. Sounds harsh, but somehow it works. Worth the rental.
Nobody else like him before or since. Django was the Man.
posner wrote:
...why do i have the sudden urge to go shoot some rats??
OK, I give up. Why?
...why do i have the sudden urge to go shoot some rats??
This song is in a PBS video I use in class called "people like us". I never who it was...thanks RP!
All that, AND "Sweet and Lowdown" is Woody Allen's best film of the last 10 yrs. Rock on, Django!
dood plays the crap out of the guitar... damn... phat!!!