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| Abandoned Projects | ...Alan Plater reveals why he never became Spike Milligan or DJANGO REINHARDT.... |
| Christmas Cocktails | ...Numbers recorded in the 1930s and 1940s by the American swing bands of Hal Kemp, Chick Webb, the Dorsey Brothers and Jimmie Lunceford; from PARIS, guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT; and appearances by vocalists FRANCEs Langford, Louis Jordan, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.... |
| Cocktails | ...From BERLIN, the orchestras of Marek Weber, Stefan Weintraub and Teddy Kline; and from PARIS, Ray Ventura and his Collegians, Fred Adison and his Orchestra, and DJANGO REINHARDT, Stephane Grappelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of FRANCE.... |
| Django's People | ...To mark this year's 50th anniversary of the death of the great gipsy guitarist, DJANGO REINHARDT, Alyn Shipton goes in search of the itinerant Manouche gipsies among whom Django grew up. Is it still possible to trace the musical roots of Reinhardt's style? Among families in the gipsy settlements of Holland and Belgium, strong musical traditions are still handed down from father to son, while in Paris the urban descendents of Django mix new influences with jazz and gipsy music to keep the legacy alive.... |
| Gypsy In My Soul | ...Nick Baker on the music of the gypsies. He looks beyond the stereotypes to changing attitudes to gypsies and their music in Britain, and visits the DJANGO REINHARDT festival (2/2).... |
| Jazz Century | ...Russell Davies presents a 52-part history of jazz. 24: `Over the Waves'. Jazz has now spread to most corners of the world, but the country in which it received its first warm welcome away from home was France. Here the presence of the brilliant Gypsy jazz guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT was a powerful reason for American musicians to visit.... |
| Jazz On 3 | ...Marc Ducret was born in Paris in 1957. Self-taught, he began playing with dance and folk bands in the mid-1970s and his career took off after he won the DJANGO REINHARDT Prize in 1987. Ducret is now in high demand on both sides of the Atlantic; his collaborators have included Michel Portal, Miroslav Vitous, Django Bates, Adam Nussbaum and David Sanborn.... |
| Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats | ...The final programme in the series is devoted to someone Ken Clarke admits may have slipped through the net of his Bebop infatuated teenage years. Yet the name of violinist Stephane Grappelli became synonymous with PARISian elegance when he and the guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT established their distinctly French swing group, Hot Club of FRANCE in the 1930s.... |
| Le Jazz Hot | ...The Quintet of the Hot Club de France gives French jazz an identity and DJANGO REINHARDT backs a new wave of visiting American soloists. A schism occurs between the intellectual sponsors of French Jazz, Charles Delaunay and Hugues Parnassie.... |
| Playing A Dangerous Game - Django, Jazz And The Nazis | ...Miles Kington investigates the story of jazz guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT. Despite being a gypsy, the virtuoso continued to play in PARIS during the Nazi occupation.... |
| Words And Music | ...With music including Schubert's Der Wanderer, Gawain's journey by Harrison Birtwistle, as well as the gypsy sounds of DJANGO REINHARDT and Maurice Ravel.... |