Talk:Django Reinhardt

message: What I came to this article hoping to find was some description of Rheinhardt's left-hand technique. What tuning(s) did he use? What chords did he accomplish with 2 fingers? Was he the first Power Chord player? Since as the article states Rheinhardt was highly influential on the development of jazz and later rock guitar techniques, let's have some details!  Le jazz hot moves so fast it's hard to tell just by listening. D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 00:31, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That's the problem when people write superlatives. They have to back them up. If they don't know enough about music, they don't know how. And some superlatives on Wikipedia no one could live up to. Regarding technique, maybe that's too much detail for Wikipedia. You might be better off with a biography about Reinhardt.–Vmavanti (talk) 02:10, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a new section "Technique and musical approach" that deals with as many aspects of his technique as might be appropriate for a general article such as this. For more detail, you/one would have to consult one of the various "Play Django style" guides as listed in the (new) Bibliography. Cheers - Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 04:52, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technique 

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message: Hello, I hope this is the right place for discussion.
I would like to mention a part of Django Reinhardt's repertoire which is unknown even by specialists and which was only very late taken up by guitarists.
These are "Django improvisations".
The "improvisations" are the works played alone on the guitar (between 1935 and 1951) by Django Reinhardt during his career.
There are distinctly 14 Django solo pieces spread across 17 takes and some confusion in numbering and chronology. Indeed, improvisation n°2 is for example performed 3 times; that is to say: 2 times in a row during the same session of 1938 and once in the United States in 1946 where it is listed as "improvisation n°7". In addition to this (which adds to the confusion) improvisation n°4 is also rated n°7 on certain discographic editions. As for the piece "Two Improvised Guitar Choruses" from 1935, we can also (as its name suggests) segment it into 2 parts, but it is a uniform piece.
Guitarist Cyril Duclos began collecting Django's improvisations in 1991 and presented this repertoire for the first time in 1994 at the 'le Méridional' hall in Fleurance, France. He recorded the disc "les improvisations de Django" in 1999, and re-recorded in 2009. It's not about promotion, this CD is now untraceable. But this information is relevant, and concerns the Django musical directory. So I would like to know if it is possible to add it to the Django wikipedia and what is the most appropriate section to make this addition? Thank you.--Belleville1950 (talk) 14:48, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The artist is non-notable, even in his own country, as you've been told on fr-wiki. All the sources you've provided have been writeups about the artist. Are there published sources -- not about Mr. Duclos -- regarding these improvisations? --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:44, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

text: Nobody was arguing the improvisations don't exist; we're asking you to find sources discussing these improvisations. For example, Discontinuity in the Music of Django Reinhardt brings them up, and I found it in a quick Google search for "Django improvisations". No need to even consider the Duclos stuff, since Django's own versions are widely available. It's not at all important for the purpose of this article that Duclos recorded them. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:31, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion on: Improvisations 

message: As these paragraphs refer to connected events (meeting Grappelli and hearing him play), they should probably be merged and the sentences reordered to match the timeline, but I don't know what that is. Did he meet Grappelli and hear him play at the Ambassador? Before? After? The Crab Who Played With The Sea (talk) 09:39, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the current timeline is tortuous. The mention of the Ambassador is more about Grappelli hearing Venuti rather than about Reinhardt: see also the paragraph in "Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend" (which also indicates Reinhardt having a negative view of Lang). The Delaunay book (p66) indicates Reinhardt and Grappelli first playing together in Louis Vola's band in 1934. AllyD (talk) 13:05, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of events in paragraphs 2 and 3 of ''Discovery of Jazz'' 

message: It is problematic to attribute the apparent difficulties to adjust, which Reinhardt experienced after the war, to his being Roma. It is plausible to interpret the issues described in this section as symptoms of a declining mental health, perhaps a response to trauma. I have thus changed the first sentence of the 'After the Quintet' section slightly, from 'After his return, Reinhardt re-immersed himself in Romani life, finding it difficult to adjust to the postwar world' to the shorter and more neutral 'After his return, Reinhardt appeared to find it difficult to adjust'. Timperman (talk) 14:32, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stereotypes and mental health