Gypsy jazz (jazz manouche)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Gypsy jazz (jazz manouche) · In 1934 the guitarist Django Reinhardt and the violinist Stéphane Grappelli founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France in Paris. It was a jazz band without horns or drums: solo guitar, violin, two rhythm guitars and double bass. The rhythm guitars play la pompe, a short, dry chord on every beat that replaces the drums. Reinhardt came from a family of Manouches, travelling Sinti, and after a fire in 1928 had been left almost unable to use two fingers of his left hand; he developed a technique of his own. The quintet is regarded as the first European jazz group with a sound of its own. Nuages became a big hit in 1940, in occupied Paris. The music lives on in Sinti communities in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, where the Rosenberg Trio from Brabant became internationally known.

Listening

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  Minor Swing · Quintette du Hot Club de France, 1937
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  Minor Swing · Rosenberg Trio, 1992
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  Made in France · Biréli Lagrène & Sylvain Luc, 1999

In School of Rock

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• Jazz Map^NL Map

See also

• Toots Thielemans
• Stochelo Rosenberg
• Biréli Lagrène & Sylvain Luc
• Swing and big band