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| | Django Reinhardt - biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | One can see that the seeds of the Django legend were already being sown, with their heavy emphasis on his picturesque nomad background and his personal magnetism, and that these, plus the “ethnic additive” of which the critic Michel-Claude Jalard has spoken, have combined to give a mythic quality to his life and work. |
 | | And Django, whose local reputation was confined to a few young music fans, was already clearly their master.” Besides, Django, despite his youth, was an experienced “pro” who could handle all the different repertoires : Neapolitan love-songs, “Spanish” numbers, current dance hits, musette (of course), and even recital pieces and Viennese waltzes. |
 | | Django’s musical vitality was a shaft of light in the gloom of those sad years and set an example which others were not slow to follow. |
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