Django Reinhardt has been called “the greatest guitarist who ever lived.” During the 1930s and 40s, Reinhardt came up with solo and harmonic innovations on the guitar that had a big impact on modern jazz, blues, country, and rock guitar styles. Together with violinist Stephane Grappelli, Reinhardt came up with a new, European style of jazz, called gypsy jazz, or manouche jazz—by fusing Dixieland, swing jazz, French traditional music, gypsy music, and more. He was the first to pioneer a form of j

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51K views · 1.1K reactions | Last week Paulus Schäfer visited Samois sur Seine, France. To honor his hero Django Reinhardt he played one of his famous compositions “Nuages” next to his grave. #paulusschafer #djangoreinhardt #gypsyjazz #jazzmanouche #samoissurseine | Sinti Music | Facebook