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  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Django Reinhardt 01/23/2012
  • Wynton Marsalis – review 08/17/2011
  • VIDEO/DVD: 'Life After Django Reinhardt' on DVD August 16 08/07/2011
  • Django reinhardt's caravan catches fire 06/16/2011
  • FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Django Reinhardt Festival Returns to Birdland June 28 - July 3 06/09/2011
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    • Django Reinhardt - A picture taken 20 December 1960 in Paris shows American jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong (L), Rene Unteregger (C) awarded with the Django Reinhardt Prize, and Duke Ellington posing together in Paris. Armstrong and Ellington were awarded for their albums by the French Jazz Academy. Armstrong whose melodic inventiveness established the central role of the improvising soloist in jazz, always said he was born 04 July 1900 in New Orleans although nobody knows the exact date. He was also a popular singer (hit recording include 'Mack the Knife', 'Hello Dolly!') and entertainer in such films as 'Pennies from Heaven' (1936), 'Cabin in the Sky' (1943), and 'High Society' (1956), but he remained primarily a jazz musician, touring the world with his New Orleans-style sextet. Armstrong died 06 July 1971.
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    Biography

    Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe -- and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. A free-spirited gypsy, Reinhardt wasn't the most reliable person in the world, frequently wandering off into the ...more
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