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  0 0 The great Red Hot Jazz website has a short bio, a complete (or nearly so) discography (including many tracks that you can listen to online -- click the Quintet of the Hot Club of France link), and a bibliography. The only one I'm familiar with is the 1961 Delauney book, which is written with a lovely style but, like a lot of earlier jazz books, perhaps a little soft on the hard facts. The more recent Dregni book "Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend" looks really interesting. I'm not a musician, and I don't know if you are, but the Dave Gelly book "Django Reinhardt: Know the Man, Play the Music" looks pretty cool too -- it's both a biography and a play-along instructional book with a CD. Even if you don't play, it's probably pretty interesting to hear musical examples as you read about the stylistic innovations behind them. I've done this many times myself manually, but it would be great to have an expert put it together for you. Stephane Grappelli has never been my cup of tea, but he played with Django a lot, and has written a great deal about him in his autobiographies. SPL has the Delauney and Dregni books. In fact, they have a couple of even newer books by Dregni that look even more promising, especially "Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing" (2008). It looks like he covers a lot more context, which in the rather obscure French Gypsy world is probably helpful. You might have to wait for that one while I reserve it ahead of you, though! EDIT: left out the Red Hot Jazz link: http://www.redhotjazz.com/django.html Fnarf answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by gkindall and Misty Brown… 0 0 I second "Gypsy Jazz". (There are remainder copies at both Third Place Books stores at the moment!) gkindall commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 A mushroom for Mighty Fnarf! Thank you so much. Misty Brown commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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