Django at 18 (1928)
La famille, Django - third from right
Django, le troisième à partir de la droite
La boite à Matelot avec Guérino
The following picture are close ups of a similar guitar as the one Django
is playing on the picture
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avec X, Django, X, Emile Savitry, Joseph Reinhardt
Photo from unknown
source : Charles Delaunay's "Django Mon Frere"
Django and Stéphane Grapelly
Playing chess with Charles Delaunay
Une aprtie d'échecs avec Charles Delaunay
He looks older...
Tuing his guitar over Gm6...
With / Avec Harry Volpe - Long Island, New-York
1946
Access the official William Gottlieb website for more information on the following photographs
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William Gottlieb
Portrait of Al Sears, Shelton Hemphill, Junior Raglin, Django Reinhardt,
Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, and Johnny Hodges,
Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
Portrait of Django Reinhardt, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
Portrait of Django Reinhardt and David Rose, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
Portrait of Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
Portrait of Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington, Aquarium, New York,
N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946
More information on there previous pictures are available at this site :
Dietrich Schulz-Koehn "Doctor Jazz" (Nazi outfit) with Django in front of La Cigale in Paris during the war.
To better understand this picture I strongly recommended the reading of the following book by Mike Zwerin
"Swing
under the Nazis: Jazz as a metaphor for freedom"
Interesting reading / Lecture intéressante
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Switzerland, a couple of weeks before he died when he
started getting the headaches - probably with Challin Ferret
Thanks Roger