History Of Gypsy Jazz / Jazz Manouche and Django Reinhardt 

Great content Denis! You are really making order from chaos. I would like to add how much Django was influenced by Duke, tunes like Speevy and Mystery Pacific for example are practically covers. Thanks for the shout out!

Thank you for you work and passion for gypsy jazz, Denis!!🙏

Dear RU-vid Algorithm, Please promote Denis' hard work. Thank you.

I was so sad at the end of the video because I want to hear more !!! Thank you a lot !!!

Wow Denis, great video. Thanks so much!

Thanks a lot! Really interesting information and reflections

Excellent. Watched start to finish. Your depth of knowledge and first-hand acquaintance with many of these players makes your historical viewpoint very compelling

wow, don't know how I missed this first time around. Fantastic video Denis. You are the contemporary authority on all this stuff. Thanks for putting it out there!

Very informative, thank you Denis.

Wow, not like I had the time, but I ended up watching til the end - so interesting, thanks Denis.

Thanks, Denis. Your perspective and thoughts are really valuable to have available like this.

Great work Denis

I appreciate your work

Amazing video, thank you for sharing your expertise!

Loving his ..............well done man !

So nice to see Angelo Debarre behind the scene jams for DC music school

WE DON'T HAVE PLACE FOR THAT KIND OF MUSIC? WOW! THAT'S F....K'D UP!

Thanks a lot for your generosity Denis!!! Hugs from México!!!

Watching this again. Thanks very much for sharing this info.

Loved the duo with Angelo Debarre. You guys were having fun!

Great video Denis! Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and perspective!

Hi Denis! I've seen this video for the second time with more attention and it was more helpful than before. I absolutely agree about your explainig. You give me more wide vision about this music and of course different interpretations. Thanks so much man, ciao from Italy!

Phenomenal !!! Thanks from So Oregon

Thanks for putting out high quality content

What a wonderful video lecture! Congratulations and thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge Denis! You're the best. Greetings from Brazil.

Latcho dennis you play good

bravo Denis nice and interesting lesson thank you very much

This is awesome Denis, thank you for the amazing work of all kinds ☺️

I love this music and this culture of course. So i've loved every single topic you've explained. Great job Denis!

Great content, this deserve much more views!

I'm going to have to watch this at least once more. Thanks for putting it together! Viper's Dream is not a Django composition ohhhhh fake news.

Thanks for the shout out to the U.K. community who kept the Django flame alive when there was little interest elsewhere. Diz Disley basically relaunched Stephane’s career. I was in a band called Gypsy Jazz in the 80s and there was another group with the same name working at that time. Waso with Fapy were popular as well and often toured. The “ Django legacy” film in the 90s kick started the current popularity.

Very informative! Thanks Denis!

Thank you for this discussion of Sinti , Roma, Manouche , Gypsy, gadjo, etc.

Thank you Denis!

Lovely tune 🧏🏻‍♀️

Cheers Thank you for posting this. Fabulous historical perspective…I loved this style from when I was first playing violin (1969) and transcribed many grapelli tunes before I got lost in Jean lu ponti and started working as a musician playing mostly shows, light music in show bands and then more classical in the 1980-1990’s I only recently returned to it about 4yrs ago and find soooo many of the players in Australia fixated on just one way to play…fast! This historical perspective gives a much broader brush stroke and is closer to my memories of those times…although not living in Paris nor from the family groups you mention being heavily influenced by Grappelli, Venuti etc and classically trained as they were having lived at the times you talk about it was actually all about the music and being a working muso…you played and were influenced by others and grew as a musician from those you were lucky to hear (live or on recordings on vinyl or put on real to real tapes ripped off the radio) and play with….I was blessed to grow up in a household that had sooo much great music from all round the world and cultures played almost 24/7 so gypsy, sinti, Hungarian gypsy, all types of jazz & classical has influenced me….well really just all music! great discussion….thanks! Its great that someone has deeply considered all the influences…maybe it shouldn’t be called gypsy jazz at all but rather D’jango music but then as a violinist the influences are more Grapelli….so maybe Grappelli music or we need to say “Hot Club” music! Who knows…and I love the culture of inclusiveness within jam sessions…heaven after the competitive combative classical world! Long may this music live and develop and grow…. Cheers K

Great & informative video Denis!

All your content is very very good quality. I like how you explain things from the beggining. Thanks for sharing Denis! Pd: excuse my french, i'm spanish (here the gadjos are called "gachós" or "payos")

Ive bought first lesson from DC yesterday. Very high quality stuff. :) Opening tune is amazing!

Awesome video

Great video! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!!! I was expecting more of a musicological treatment of the topic based on the title. You have touched on the social, musicological, historical, technological, psychological, and linguistic, and theoretical aspects of the topic. I think all these things are important to understand the life we lead. To add to my list above that may apply here: biological (availability of raw materials), medical (Django's injuries), genetic(DNA of Roma), mathematical? I guess what I'm getting at is that any line of inquiry can benefit from a multi-disciplinary approach. (side note: A liberal arts education may be helpful in this age of specialization). I guess musicology Is "interesting" because, (perhaps) the lack of physical evidence prior to the advent of recordings circa 1890.

Great video!

Desde México, que viva el jazz

great job and hell yeah for fapy!

Great job my dear friend!

great

Thanks Denis for the video. It was very informative. I think the definitive statement on the history and origins of "gypsy jazz" is Siv Lie's book. And hey people -- don't ever be that guy @ 1:04:29!

Maybe you and Tony Gatlif could collaborate. Perhaps a new “gypsy” musical journey?

thanks for a great and detailed lecture Denis, I know this can be discussed at length, but briefly would you mind describing the differences between the dutch and french accent of gypsy jazz? I've heard that references about the differences several times, but never seen any clear explanations or examples.

Moral of this lecture is, opinions are like a--holes, everyone has one.

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Curious what model guitar Duved is playing in the performance… do you remember, Dennis?

I’ve always said it, if jazz guys were cooler more people would like it. There, I said it for you.

whats the name of the intro song? great video lesson!!!

What’s the 1st song name? It’s very pretty and slow enough for a GJ starter for me

Oh oberg oh oberg

As far as I know, a majority of Taiwanese people that came before WWII make living by agriculture, and since beef is very expensive and we need buffalos to work for us so people at that time don't eat beef (though they are different species, but both of then are called cow in Taiwan) Also, people tend to eat at home more, since you already grow food ,it's cheaper, and you just have to walk home to eat. However, Han people that came after WWII make a living as being a soldier or as business, plus they don't own land in Taiwan, so they tend to eat outside(at restaurants) a lot more, that is also why it's super hard to find traditional Taiwanese food outside(even till now), but not so hard to find Chinese restaurant Not only did Han people that came after WWII bring in beef eating culture, but also noodle eating(people that came before WWII like to eat rice rather then noodle) and the culture of eating at restaurants --- The term of Taiwanese (language) I believe was created by Japanese when during colonization. They thought it's the language all Taiwanese speak, so they called it Taiwanese rather than Hokkien

What program did you use to merge them in time?

Denis, what’s the name of the tune you played with Feigeli? Sounds a bit like bleu citron By the way thanks again for an amazing video!

Thank you for the nice attempt to explain the historical background of the Sinti and Roma. But unfortunately it is wrong. The origin of all Sinti and Roma as well as "Manouche" is India. It is no problem to find out about it yourself. It has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism. It was the expulsion and enslavement by Islam in India at that time that led to this migration of peoples. In Germany, Sinti were mentioned for the first time in the 15th century, and another thing: whether you are a Sinto or a Rom is not decided by your language, music or lifestyle, but solely by your parents' ancestry. There are Sinti and Roma in many countries around the world and they can communicate linguistically, sometimes better, sometimes worse. But communication is possible because the origin is the same, just with different customs and traditions. thanks for your video and interest

90 minutes... Damn! Put on a pot of coffee folks!

ur right --- it is ALL about intention. But having created a world in which TRUST is pretty much bankrupt and replaced by sterile money bought contractional agreement it starts to become proscribed to use ANY word at all for anything at all. Gotta wonder if we can survive this. btw. at 01,00 hr, lovely to hear manouche guitars sounding like the underwear drawer of every good christian should smell.

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"The father of one of my best friends is Sinto, and his mother is Roma, but he calls himself Sinto. Another friend has ancestors who also married into Jewish families." Where is the problem in this statement of yours? or do you mean to imply that in Judaism only the mother can pass it on? "Don't you think it gets complicated if you only determine by descent?" Mr Chang, what is this nonsensical answer? After your contribution to the history of the music of Django and the Sinti and Roma, I can't help feeling that you are implying that the Sinti and Roma have no identity or ethnicity, based on some statements by people who don't know their own history. Why didn't you do your own research, Google no problem. Do you know anyone who has played this music on a Selmer/Maccaferri before, the way Django played it? We only distinguish between Django's "old style" and the "new style". You know that every musician who plays an instrument, no matter what style of music, finds his own style after a while. You know the saying......you either have style or you don't.......because you can't buy style. If you live in Canada for another hundred years, you will still have the ancestry of your parents, and that's the same with the Sinti and Roma. This is the music we have in our blood and we are happy when other people enjoy it and are interested in playing it.

Taiwan No1 :)

Do Sinti players call Grappelli a gypsy jazz player?! or they just categorized guitarists to be or not to be "gypsy jazz" players?