Can I read Django : The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend on EtoBox?

Django : The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend by Michael Dregni is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Django : The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend about?

<p><br>Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. <br> Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium, he was almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw. But with this maimed left hand flying over the frets and his right hand plucking at dizzying speed, Django became Europe's most famous jazz musician, commanding exorbitant fees--and spending the money as fast as he made it. Dregni not only chronicles this remarkably colorful life--including a fascinating account of gypsy culture--but he also sheds much light on Django's musicianship. He examines his long musical partnership with violinist St&eacute;phane Grappelli--the one suave and smooth, the other sharper and more dissonant--and he traces the evolution of their novel string jazz ensemble, Quintette d

Who reads Django : The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend?

Author

Michael Dregni

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781602568563

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.96 / 5 (189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14