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Template:/box-header Portal:Jazz/Intro Template:/box-footer Jean-Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a French guitarist and composer of Romani heritage. Reinhardt is often regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time and was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, Reinhardt used only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos and invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, he co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz." Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". (Full article...) McCoy Tyner (1973) image credit: [[]] Music Blues Guitar Piano More music portals... Template:/box-footer ... that the Russian guitar's D-G-B-D-G-B-D tuning (illustrated) approximates the major-thirds tuning D#-G-B-D#-G-B-D#? ... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60? ... that the music of Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Arnold Schoenberg inspired jazz-guitarist Ralph Patt to invent major-thirds tuning? ... that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" while reading a baseball encyclopedia? (Van Lingle Mungo pictured) September 2012 ▼ Jazz ► Jazz by nationality ► Jazz albums ► Jazz clubs ► Jazz culture ► Jazz ensembles ► Jazz events ► Jazz genres ► Jazz instruments ► Jazz organizations ► Jazz poetry ► Jazz record labels ► Jazz techniques ► Jazz writers ► Years in jazz ► Jazz stubs Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Portal:Jazz/Things you can do Template:/box-footer The Jazz WikiProject works to improve the quality of jazz-related articles on Wikipedia. Please join us!Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz/Recognized content}} Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Portal:Jazz/Jazz genres Template:/box-footer The following Wikimedia sister projects provide more on this subject:

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