‘Down there in the Gypsy camp a banjo was jiggling with a popular melody.., one had the impression of distant dance music, dizzying waltzes one the sweetness of an accordion. Camp fires were everywhere, each with its cooking pot. Everywhere chickens were stewing and banjos going wild…’
This was the setting in which Django grew up - in a world that today has become the stuff of legend, the world of the bohemian and the vagabond on the doorstep of a great city… — Django Reinhardt a biography by Alain Antonietto
Django featured with the Quintet of the Hot Club of France and performing ‘Swing’ (1939)
also: profile, longer version of video above & NPR’s Django Reinhardt: A Gypsy Legend
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