Time on my hands django reinhardt biography

Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt’s distinctive style has been emulated by other musicians, and his tradition is carried on today by the group Pearl Django. Pianist John Lewis memorialized him in his composition “Django,” which became a jazz standard as did many of Django’s own compositions.

He was born on January 10, 1910, in a gypsy caravan and lived his young life on the outskirts of Paris in a disreputable area called la Zone where the gypsies, in medieval tradition, gathered their caravans.

Time on my hands django reinhardt biography

Refusing to go to school, he grew up illiterate, a free spirit who roamed the streets with his brother and friends, stole chickens, went to the cinema, played billiards, and listened to music intently. His rise to fame in the jazz world of the 20^th century put him in a situation that was the reverse of the Connecticut Yankee who visited King Arthur’s court.

According to Charles Delaunay, author of Django Reinhardt, the young boy didn’t get his own instrument, a six-string banjo-gui