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• Guitar Player Magazine November 1976

  with Django on the cover. Many articles...

  

  "The Guitar Player Book" published by Guitar Player Magazine has the main Grapelli interview (the original mag-76 has many more articles).

   

• Guitar Player Magazine November 1999

  "Django's Chromatic Flourishes." by Chapman, Charles H.

• Guitar Player Magazine May 1994

-"The Magic Beyond the Mystique, Django Reinhardt", by Jim Ferguson, musical anlysis and examples.
 
• Guitar Player Magazine December 1996





- "Blod and fire, passing the torch of Gipsy Guitar" by Paul Hostetter (history, comteporary scene, Selmer guitars, Sinti - Jimmy Rosenberg band).
- "Swing Dreams are made of these, a lesson in Gipsy Jazz" by John Jorgensen & Andy Mackenzie.

 

 

 

 

 

• Guitar Player Magazine February 2001
  Lover Man Solo Transcription
  Transcribed by Jesse Gress

• Guitar Player Magazine December 2003
   
   

Acoustic Guitar, July 2004, no 139

Django for a Day
Playing the part of Django Reinhardt in a movie was a dream come true.
By John Jorgenson

Nashville Manouche: John Jorgenson’s voyage on the Gypsy jazz caravan.
By Michael John Simmons

Music to "F.A. Swing"

Read the story online.

Acoustic Guitar, January 2000, no 85
DJANGO'S GUITAR How Mario Maccaferri and Selmer created a radical new guitar for the jazz age.
By François Charles
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

Acoustic Guitar, October 1999, no 82
OFF THE RECORD Scott Nygaard scrutinizes a classic Django Reinhardt solo. Music to "Minor Swing".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Acoustic Guitar, March/April 1992

Article 1 : Perfect Freedom by Tom Hoffman
Reflections on the ground-breaking genius of Django Reinhardt.
Includes tab from Solid Old Man (Django's chorus) as played by Billy Taylor and Django Reinhardt
Article 2 : Living Legend by Dick Boak
The revolutionary designs of Mario Maccaferri, from Django Reinhardt's guitar to plastic clothespin.
Great acoutics : Selmer Harp Guitar by François Charle (photo + description)
 
 
 
 

Acoustic Guitar, February 1996 no. 38
 Reviews : The Robin Nolan String Quartet
Article 1 : Jazz Manouche by Michael Simmons (many pages)
Django Reinhardt and the vibrant world of Gipsy Guitar
Article 2 : Gipsy Guitar primer by John Jorgenson
Great acoutics : 1949 Selmer by François Charle (photo + description)
 
 

Acoustic Guitar, August 2003
Article : Out of Django's Shadow

Biréli Lagrène finds a new voice by returning to his Gypsy jazz roots. By David McCarty.

Music to Djangology (from his CD Gipsy Project & Friends).

Vintage Gallery, April 1994

Collectible guitars & Amps
 

• The Selmer article by François Charle and Paul Hostetter (info has been updated since then, see François Charle's book)
• On page 50, Selmer Guitars, the history of France's renowned guitar workshop.

Django Reinhardt, A Fire in his Fingers by Doug Caldwell + Solo to Nuages as transcribed by Andy Aledort (1940 version).



illustration by/par David Pollard

October 2001
Transcription of Limehouse Blues
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Down beat, April 1981, Stéphane Grapelli and the Django connection

It is part 1, I've never seen part 2...

Guitar & Bass, Juin 1994

Le Gipsy King (scales, Festival 1948, first chorus), a few word on different types of minor scale + bohemian scale

This kind of fan zine have been published in the 80's by a group of North American enthousiast. This was based on the concept of a group of Djangophiles sharing information using a small journal as a mean of broadcasting the information (you had to subscribed for a certain fee).

1996 Django's Blues. In The Guitar in Jazz: An Anthology. Pp. 70-75. Lincoln: University of Nebraska.

MacKenzie, Andy : "Gypsy Jazz Guitar."

Michael Horrowitz : "Gypsy Jazz Guitar."

 

an example of cover