Wayne Jefferies, in his article "Django's Forgotten Era", writes: Early in 1951, armed with his amplified Maccaferri which he used to the very end he put together a new band of the best young modern musicians in Paris; including Hubert Fol, an altoist in the Charlie Parker mould. Django is on top form; full of new ideas that are executed with amazing fluidity, cutting angular lines that always retain that ferocious swing.[38]. These performances drew large audiences. However, Reinhardt later had second thoughts about what role he could play alongside Goodman, who was the "King of Swing", and remained in France. Director-screenwriter Etienne Comar works from a 2013 novel of historical fiction, "Folles de Django" by Alexis Salatko. By legend, the trip was a disaster: he arrived without his Selmer, never found a guitar he liked, was booed by audiences, and. The thinking man's pop!". Since he did not read music, Reinhardt worked with an assistant to notate what he was improvising. Jazz and swing music was not yet on the young Django's radar yet, however, but his musical repertoire as a young man included being adept at playing the guitar, violin and banjo. The fire ravaged the caravan and Django, in addition to losing all of his possessions, was badly injured. Information med symbolet hentes fra Wikidata. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant. This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. One noteworthy gain from the trip to America was that he had left France playing swing, but returned thinking of beebop and modern jazz which would be the new direction he ultimately took. He was also a painter, fly fisher and billiard player. He developed his own unique and unconventional musical technique, which eventually made him a legend in the history of music. Five of his children were sons; Dregni states that one of them, Paul "Navire" Baumgartner, was the father of Dallas Baumgartner, a contemporary gypsy jazz guitarist. A new generation of French jazz enthusiasts, the Zazous, had arisen and swollen the ranks of the Hot Club. Django's Departure on the 16th May 1953 Django made his last commercial recording on April 8, 1953, with a progressive group consisting of Vibes ("Fats" Lallemand), Piano (Martial Solal), Bass (Pierre Michelot), and Drums (Pierre Lemarchand). [21], Reinhardt also played and recorded with many American jazz musicians, such as Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, and Rex Stewart (who later stayed in Paris). The Prix Django Reinhardt is an award that was named after Reinhardt. (He often used a Selmer fitted with an electric pickup, despite his initial hesitation about the instrument.) "[42] David Grisman adds, "As far as I'm concerned, no one since has come anywhere close to Django Reinhardt as an improviser or technician. "[8], Feeling unappreciated by critics and not accepted by French authorities as the legal heir of Django, Lousson retired from playing in 1980. [11]:160 Some claim it means I awake in Romani, while others state it was just a different version of Jean. After the tour, Reinhardt secured an engagement at Caf Society Uptown, where he played four solos a day, backed by the resident band. It has a little to do with the real Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist . The recording was issued for the first time in the late 1950s. The actor had three different marriages throughout his life. His music suffered as he became increasingly moody and unreliable. [54], Numerous musicians have written and recorded tributes to Reinhardt. Probably the thing about this music that makes it always challenging and exciting to play is that Django raised the bar so high, that it is like chasing genius to get close to his level of playing.[37]. Reinhardt was touring in England when the World War II broke out. On the night of 2 November 1928, Reinhardt was going to bed in the wagon that he and his wife shared in the caravan. In 2005, Django Reinhardt ended on the sixty-sixth place in the election of The Greatest Belgian (De Grootste Belg) in Flanders and on the seventy-sixth place in the Walloon version of the same competition Le plus grand belge. He was later married to Sophie Ziegler from 1943 till his death in 1953. His infallible technique, his daring, 'on the edge' improvisations coupled with his vastly advanced harmonic sense, took him to musical heights that Christian and many other Bop musicians never came near. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. On a few occasions he even refused to get out of bed. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. [14] During his 18-month hospitalization, doctors recommended amputation of his badly damaged right leg. It took a full day for a doctor to arrive and Django was declared dead on arrival at the hospital in Fontainebleau. Reinhardt was attracted to music at an early age, first playing the violin. He was a Sinti Gypsy. SonicHits. Thu 16 Jun 2011 19.45 EDT I n 1928, at 18, Belgian gypsy musician Django Reinhardt lost the use of the third and fourth fingers of his left hand in a caravan fire, forcing him to abandon both. In 2005, a documentary film named Djangomania was released. Moreover, he had general difficulties living amidst the present-day culture. In both years the great majority of their recordings featured a wide variety of horns, often in multiples, piano, and other instruments,[20] but the all-string instrumentation is the one most often adopted by emulators of the Hot Club sound. [2]:154[25] Nonetheless, Goebbels stopped short of a complete ban on jazz, which now had many fans in Germany and elsewhere. But in jazz, Louis Armstrong was a genius, Duke Ellington was another one, and Reinhardt was also. Reinhardt's second son, Babik, became a guitarist in a more contemporary jazz style, and recorded a number of albums before his death in 2001. As good as players are, they haven't gotten to where he is. As Django aged, he would spend the majority of his days re-immersing himself in gypsy life, having found it difficult to adjust to the modern world. He was just 17 years old but already had made a name for himself playing the banjo-guitar and was invited by the famed British band leader Jack Hylton to join his band. He is remembered for many compositions, such as Minor Swing, Belleville, Swing 42, and Nuages. The couple escaped, but Reinhardt suffered extensive burns over half his body. [11]:161 Reinhardt was declared dead on arrival at the hospital in Fontainebleau, at the age of 43. To scrape together a little money, Bella had been making artificial flowers out of paper and highly flammable celluloid. [11]:138 He had been promised jobs in California, but they failed to develop. Reinhardt was born on 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont--Celles, Belgium,[7] into a Belgian family[3] of Manouche Romani descent. [8] His mother, Laurence Reinhardt, was a dancer. With a persistant nature and dedication to his craft, Reinhardt, despite the odds, transitioned from prodigy to rising virtuoso by his early twenties. I have written this mass to be interpreted by choir and organ. Jean Reinhardt, popularly known as Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist and composer. The young guitarist was at home with his common-law wife, Bella, in their gypsy caravan on the edge of Paris. Django's compositions were sometimes jaunty, sometimes sad. During this time, Django produced numerous recordings with the quintet in addition to forming other side projects with more conventional instrumentations. Tired of waiting, Reinhardt returned to France in February 1947. Hugues Panassi, in his 1942 book The Real Jazz, wrote: First of all, his instrumental technique is vastly superior to that of all other jazz guitarists. In it, Captain Murphy comments on a drink dispensed from the Bebop Cola machine: "Ahh, Mango Reinhardt! Reinhardt, confident in the knowledge that the Nazis loved jazz music, despite Hitler's ban of the genre, would surely spare his talent. He can make me cry when I hear him. In his solos [] his melodic ideas are sparkling and ravishing, and their abundance scarcely gives the listener time to catch his breath. In 1951, he retired to Samois sur Seine, France, near Fontainebleau. It was released on 2 June 2015, by Legacy Recordings. There's a lot of guys that play fast and a lot of guys that play clean, and the guitar has come a long way as far as speed and clarity go, but nobody plays with the whole fullness of expression that Django has. I mean, the combination of incredible speed all the speed you could possibly want but also the thing of every note have a specific personality. Well, it could be because he follows his musical taste and not his fingers. The fire burned the majority of his body, leaving his left hand deformed. Django: Directed by Etienne Comar. Despite his left hand handicap, Reinhardt was able to recapture (in modified form) and then surpass his previous level of proficiency on the guitar (by now his main instrument), not only as a lead instrumental voice but also as a driving and harmonically interesting rhythm player; his virtuosity, incorporating many gypsy-derived influences, was also matched with a superb sense of melodic invention as well as general musicality in terms of choice of notes, timing, dynamics, and utilizing the maximum tonal range from an instrument previously thought of by many critics as potentially limited in expression. In this ["Nuages"] graceful and eloquent melody, Django evoked the woes of the war that weighed on people's soulsand then transcended it all. Members of the quintet were hesitant to return to France where the Nazis were at work rounding up gypsies. He played a few tunes at the end of the show, backed by Ellington, with no special arrangements written for him. His music earned him a lot of popularity and even gained the young man worldwide attention. Henri Baumgartner (19291992), known professionally as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French gypsy jazz guitarist and the first son of Django Reinhardt by his first wife, Florine Mayer. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43. Django Reinhardt married Florine Mayer in 1927 according to gypsy custom although their marriage was not registered, and therefore not recognised under French law. Playing completely by ear (he could neither read nor write music), he roamed freely across the full range of the fretboard giving full flight to his musical imagination and could play with ease in any key. SonicHits. (Organ continues to play), Dregni, Michael. They were also famous for using an inventive style of employing their guitars for percussion purposes, as they had no true percussion section. Counted amongst the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, he was one of the most influential jazz artists to have emerged from Europe. As well, Reinhardt was known by his band, fans, and managers to be extremely unpredictable. Due to the massive popularity which he earned over the course of his career, every year Django festivals are held across the US and Europe. A small number of waltzes composed by Reinhardt in his youth were never recorded by the composer, but were retained in the repertoire of his associates and several are still played today. It was a Saturday, and it took a full day for a doctor to arrive. But it might come to pass, perhaps one day. Django is still one of my main influences, I think, for lyricism. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was met with mixed reviews. . Guitarist Mike Peters notes that "the word 'genius' is bantered about too much. He also produced some of his characteristic "effects" by moving a fixed shape (such as a diminished chord) rapidly up and down the fretboard, resulting in what one writer has called "intervallic cycling of melodic motifs and chords". Is that accurate? [52], In 1984 the Kool Jazz Festival, held in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, was dedicated entirely to Reinhardt. Oxford;: Oxford University Press, 2004. The group, which became the first major European band, gained popularity for their recordings of covers of American songs such as Dinah and Lady Be Good. Jimi Hendrix is said to have named one of his bands the Band of Gypsys because of Django's music. Songs written in Reinhardt's honor include "Django," composed by John Lewis, which has become a jazz standard performed by musicians such as Miles Davis. "The Lost: The Secret History of Lousson Baumgartner and the "Other" Family." [27], One of his tunes, 1940's "Nuages",[28] became an unofficial anthem in Paris to signify hope for liberation. Romani men were required to wear a brown Gypsy ID triangle sewn on their chest,[2]:168 similar to the pink triangle that homosexuals wore, and much like the yellow Star of David that Jews had to subsequently wear. Django Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a pioneering virtuoso Belgian jazz guitarist and composer. Within his rapid melodic runs he frequently incorporated arpeggios, which could be played using two notes per string (played with his two "good" fingers, being his index and middle fingers) while shifting up or down the fingerboard, as opposed to the more conventional "box" approach of moving across strings within a single fretboard position (location). "[11]:145 During this period he continued to attend the R-26 artistic salon in Montmartre, improvising with his devoted collaborator, Stphane Grappelli. Using an early amplification system, he was able to work in more of a big-band format, in large ensembles with horn sections. Django Reinhardt's income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. in accordance with New World Encyclopedia standards. He never had any formal schooling. [10] Reinhardt spent most of his youth in Romani encampments close to Paris, where he started playing the violin, banjo and guitar. 1951 Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club Quintet, 1954 The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt, 1980 Routes to Django Reinhardt - Bireli Lagrene, 2002 Djangology (remastered) (recorded in 1948, discovered, remastered and released by Bluebird Records), 2003 Jazz in Paris: Nuits de Saint-Germain des-Prs. Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. Beginning in 1933, all German Romani were barred from living in cities, herded into settlement camps, and routinely sterilized. Reinhardt re-formed the quintet, with Hubert Rostaing on clarinet replacing Grappelli. [6] At Samois in 1978 he is pictured using a Gibson ES-175 hollow bodied jazz guitar belonging to Django's brother Joseph. He had to eventually return to France, as though he was promised jobs in California, he was not granted any. Brother of Joseph Reinhardt. It is very difficult to achieve the same tone, articulation and clarity using all 5 left hand fingers. In fact, Byrd, who lived from 1925 to 1999, said that Reinhardt was his primary influence. [13]:10, Before he had a chance to start with the band, however, Reinhardt nearly died. [39] Because of his physical disability, he played mainly using his index and middle fingers, and invented a distinctive style of jazz guitar. In his earliest recordings Reinhardt played banjo (or, more accurately, banjo-guitar) accompanying accordionists and singers on dances and popular tunes of the day, with no jazz content, whereas in the last recordings before his death he played amplified guitar in the bebop idiom with a pool of younger, more modern French musicians. Even today, he is still regarded as one of the most prominent jazz performers to have ever lived. Check out Django Reinhardt's incomparable technique in this 1938 video from Paris Hot Club. However, they parted shortly after the accident. Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means 'I Awake' in the Romani language, however it may. The names of two of Lousson's children, Chti and Gagoug, were commemorated musically when Django's widow, Naguine, conferred them on two previously unpublished compositions of Django as subsequently recorded by Matelo Ferret in 1960.[11]. He was just 43 years old. Announcer: Could you tell me Mr Reinhardt, what has compelled you to write this mass? His hugely innovative technique included, on a grand scale, such unheard of devices as melodies played in octaves, tremolo chords with shifting notes that sounded like whole horn sections, a complete array of natural and artificial harmonics, highly charged dissonances, super-fast chromatic runs from the open bass strings to the highest notes on the 1st string, an unbelievably flexible and driving right-hand, two and three octave arpeggios, advanced and unconventional chords and a use of the flattened fifth that predated be-bop by a decade. Over the years, Django Reinhardts recordings have been released on several cassettes, EPs, and albums. The wagon was quickly engulfed in flames. After the war, Reinhardt rejoined Grappelli in the UK. [50][51], The documentary film, Djangomania! He would also periodically vanish for greater lengths, disappearing for a week or two to play at his beloved gypsy campfires. Django Reinhardt nat le 23 janvier 1910 en Belgique, dans une famille sinti . [6], Using a Selmer guitar in the mid-1930s, his style took on new volume and expressiveness. A: And is today the first recital of your mass? Enjoy. His second wife was Naguine, and they had a son Babik. Related Topics Este considerat unul din cei mai mari chitariti de jazz ai tuturor timpurilor i este primul muzician de talie mondial "produs" de continentul european. Even more miraculous was that Django, with a new guitar given to him by his brother Joseph Reinhardtan accomplished guitarist, as wellfought through painful rehabilitation and non-stop practice to relearn his craft despite his disability. [2]:5[11]:14 His father reportedly played music in a family band comprising himself and seven brothers; a surviving photograph shows this band including his father on piano. They had one son. Django Reinhardt is jazz guitar's most dazzling soloist, improviser, and most important, innovator. Select from premium (Attr.) [7] His father, Jean Eugene Weiss, domiciled in Paris with his wife, went by Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, his wife's surname, to avoid French military conscription. In his later style (c.1946 onwards) Reinhardt began to incorporate more bebop influences in his compositions and improvisations, also fitting a Stimer electric pickup to his acoustic guitar. Tears by Django Reinhardt | Practicing guitar improvisation for the minor part. A number of musicians named their sons Django in reference to Reinhardt, including David Crosby, former Slade singer Noddy Holder, Jerry Jeff Walker, Richard Durrant, and actors Nana Visitor and Raphael Sbarge. DR: No, it's not I who notates the music. The British guitarist Diz Disley plays in a style based on Reinhardt's technique and he collaborated on numerous projects with Stphane Grappelli; Reinhardt also had an influence on other styles and musical genres, including Western Swing, notably in the work of Bob Wills. In 1943, Django married Sophie Ziegler in Salbris, with whom he had a son, Babik Reinhardt, who went on to become a respected guitarist in his own right. Since the mid-sixties, there has been a revival of interest in Reinhardt's music, a revival that has extended into the 21st century, with annual festivals and periodic tribute concerts. It's my clarinetist in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Gerard Leveque. "Stephane Grappelli is Europe's gift to jazz". Reinhardt, who was of Roma (Gypsy) parentage, traveled through France and Belgium as a boy and young man learning to play the violin, guitar, and banjo. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including "Minor Swing",[5] "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". May 16, 1953 - Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt was born on January 23, 1910 in Liberchies, Pont--Celles, Belgium, into a French family of Manouche Romani descent. Jeff Beck described Reinhardt as "by far the most astonishing guitar player ever" and "quite superhuman".[61]. Andrew Latimer, of the band Camel, has stated that he was influenced by Reinhardt. . Death: Immediate Family: Wife of Django Reinhardt. He would often skip sold-out concerts to simply walk to the beach or "smell the dew." [26] Reinhardt made a second attempt a few days later, but was stopped in the middle of the night by Swiss border guards, who forced him to return to Paris again. Jean 'Django' Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian guitarist and composer credited with popularizing Gypsy jazz, as well as conceptualizing the style together with several other Gypsy musicians. While he never regained the use of those two fingers, Reinhardt regained his musical mastery by focusing on his left index and middle fingers, using the two injured fingers only for chord work. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one. Mother of Jean-Jaques Babik Reinhardt. Add to all this Django's staggering harmonic and melodic concept, huge sound, pulsating swing, sense of humour and sheer speed of execution, and it is little wonder that guitar players were knocked sideways upon their first encounter with this full-blown genius.[34]. However, they parted shortly after the accident. [39], For about a decade after Reinhardt's death, interest in his musical style was minimal. A number of authors have repeated the claim that Reinhardt's nickname, Django, is Romani for "I awake";[2]:45 however, it may also simply have been a diminutive, or local Walloon version, of "Jean". [11]:141, After his return, Reinhardt re-immersed himself in Romani life, finding it difficult to adjust to the postwar world. Django later picked up several more instruments, the banjo, guitar, and a hybrid of the two, called a guitjo, and profited from his rising talent at county fairs and on the streets of nearby towns. A French film based on his lifetitled Djangowas also released recently. Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, cigny nevn Django, 1910. janur 23 -n szletett egy lakkocsiban Liberchies vrosban, Belgiumban. Film Review: 'Django'. After the war, in 1946, Django made the long-awaited trip to America. Django's ability to bend his guitar to the most fantastic audacities, combined with his expressive inflections and vibrato, is no less wonderful; one feels an extraordinary flame burning through every note. Django: the Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend . It was written and directed by Jamie Kastner. It is possible to get closer with only 2 fingers, but again is quite challenging. Hijo de Laurence Ngros Reinhardt, bailarina y cantante, y de Jean-Baptiste Eugne Weiss, violinista y guitarrista. He quickly learned to play, mimicking the fingerings of musicians he watched, who would have included local virtuoso players of the day such as Jean "Poulette" Castro and Auguste "Gusti" Malha, as well as from his uncle Guiligou, who played violin, banjo and guitar. [11]:66, From 1934 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Reinhardt and Grappelli worked together as the principal soloists of their newly formed quintet, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, in Paris. [22], In 1938, Reinhardt's quintet played to thousands at an all-star show held in London's Kilburn State auditorium. Jazz musician Django Bates was named after him. Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was the first famous European jazz musician. The entire left side of his body was badly burned and to spend 18 months in hospital. Jean "Django" Reinhardt was a promising young musician when a crippling injury seemed to end his chance of having a music career. of the highest quality. Reinhardt refused the surgery and was eventually able to walk with the aid of a cane. Django gives us a wonderful lead; the first 15 seconds are a 101-level crash course on how to play gypsy jazz. Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means 'I Awake' in the Romani language, however it may. Guitarists, particularly in Britain and the United States, could scarcely believe what they heard on the records that the Quintette was making; guitarist, gypsy jazz enthusiast and educator Ian Cruickshank writes: It wasn't until 1938, and the Quintet's first tour of England, that guitarists [in the U.K.] were able to witness Django's amazing abilities. Writing in 1945, Billy Neil and E. Gates stated that, Reinhardt set new standards by an almost incredible and hitherto unthought-of technique His ideas have a freshness and spontaneity that are at once fascinating and alluring [Nevertheless] The characteristics of Reinhardt's music are primarily emotional. He wed his second wife, Silvia Ward, and they went on to have a son together who they named Django. From left to right: Baro Ferret, Lousson Baumgartner (son of Django Reinhardt), Reinhardt and Sarane Ferret. His final years were difficult. Musician. So, how much is Django Reinhardt worth at the age of 43 years old? Allegedly, one night Reinhardt was given, on stage, an untuned guitar to play with and the great musician fumbled for five whole minutes to tune it himself. After "going electric," the results were not as well received by fans. And the Sintis are the Gypsies that moved through Europe and live in Western Europe now. He was sent back to Paris, where he tried developing other forms of music since the Nazis completely disapproved of jazz. I dictate it to him. Jean "Django" Reinhardt, fdd 23 januari 1910 i Liberchies nra Pont--Celles, Hainaut, Belgien, dd 16 maj 1953 i Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, Frankrike, var en belgisk - fransk sjlvlrd [ 1] jazzgitarrist av romsk hrkomst. When he was 14, the young artist began his professional career accompanying the popular accordionist, Guerino, in underworld Parisian dance halls. 37-42. He would sometimes show up for concerts without a guitar or amp, or wander off to the park or beach when he was due to perform. To accomplish this, Django would use his index and middle fingers to manage the fretboard, while his other two fingers, frozen in the form of a claw, could only occassionaly be used for some chords. King; the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia; Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi; Jimi Hendrix; Shawn Lane; Stevie Ray Vaughan; Mark Knopfler; Les Paul; Joe Pass; Peter Frampton; Denny Laine;Jeff Beck; Steve Howe; Charlie Christian; George Benson; Wes Montgomery; Martin Taylor; Tchavolo Schmitt; Stochelo Rosenberg; Birli Lagrne; John Jorgenson; Michael Angelo Batio; Richard Thompson; Robert Fripp; and Jeff Martin. Father of Henri "Lousson" Baumgartner-Reinhardt, Babik Reinhardt, grandfather of David Reinhardt . At the end of the tour, Reinhardt played two nights at Carnegie Hall in New York City; he received a great ovation and took six curtain calls on the first night. Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, both of whom lost fingers in accidents, were inspired by Reinhardt's example of becoming an accomplished guitar player despite his injuries. The movie covers Django's escape from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943 and the fact that even under "constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against his family", he continued composing and performing. He also recorded with many other American jazz musicians such as Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter. As World War II was declared, the original quintet was on tour in the United Kingdom. [1] Henri/Lousson learned to play guitar from his relatives; he is pictured playing with Django and others in a photograph dating from the mid 1940s[2] and played rhythm guitar with Django's "Nouveau Quintette" on a tour of Belgium in November-December 1948, of which an official release exists. I chose his style because it spoke to me. [4] Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. Reinhardt survived World War II unscathed, unlike many other Gypsies who perished in concentration camps. May 16, 1953, when, while returning from the Avon, Seine-et-Marne train station, he collapsed Who Is Django Reinhardt's Wife? His work has influenced many such artistes like BB King and Carlos Santana. Even today, nobody has really come to the state that he was playing at. [8] The birth certificate refers to "Jean Reinhart, son of Jean Baptiste Reinhart, artist, and Laurence Reinhart, housewife, domiciled in Paris".[9]. Babik Reinhardt [18], Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput also played on guitar, and Louis Vola was on bass. Show all results: Reinhardt returned to Paris at once,[11]:9899 leaving his wife in the UK. He knocked over a candle, which ignited the extremely flammable celluloid that his wife used to make artificial flowers. His music is a reflection of his serene nature, or at least his nature which compels him to seek serenity, which was most often in the comfort of his past. 2008. His music remains as vital and exciting today as it was when he lived, a legacy of joy to all future generations that rediscover the genius of the Belgian gypsy Django Reinhardt. I really haven't heard it anywhere but with Django. It is granted to the best French jazz musician of the year. The names "Gagoug" and "Choti" were reportedly conferred by Django's widow Naguine on request from Matelo, who had learned the tunes without names. The caravan which Reinhardt shared with his wife caught fire one night . Both his sons, Lousson and Babik, also followed in his footsteps and became jazz guitarists. 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