PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Django Reinhardt
In 1928, he was badly burned in a caravan fire, which resulted in the mutilation of his left hand. This deprived him of the use of two fingers and led him to devise a unique fingering method to overcome his handicap.
In 1946, he visited England and Switzerland, toured the USA as a soloist with Duke Ellington's band (playing an amplified guitar for the first time), and worked in New York.
His incisive support is heard to advantage on Stardust (1935), recorded with Coleman Hawkins.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
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