Hi folks

Django was before CC in any way. He was born before and started his
recording career long before CC. And CC knew reportedly a Django solo,
St. Louis Blues, and was able to play it note for note long before
Django knew anything about CC. It's also obvious that when Django
later tried out the electric guitar he used some of CC's very
recognizable licks.

These things are more or less historical facts.
Now did Django have any impact on CC's playing style?

I believe so and some years ago I tried here in this forum to argue
that. Unfortunately I was very much put down by mr. Broadbent and I
gave up trying to persuade him and to be taken seriously and for
personal reasons I didn't have the energy to carry on.

I wished that someone here would take the time to check out the Django
solo, St Louis Blues, recorded September 9th 1937 with bass and rhythm
guitar as accompaniment. Get hold of it, the recording, the
transcription, play it, analyse it and conclude whether there's any
similarity between DR's solo and CC's playing.

I have done this and I find 15 motives, licks and runs very much
identical with CC's and then there's the use of open strings, octaves
and primes which CC rarely but occasionally did use.

Why don't we get down to earth and discuss actual notes and licks and
guitarpositions etc.

Greetings
Ole

--- In CharlieChristian@yahoogroups.com, "Snatch N. Grabster"
<snatchngrabster@...> wrote:
>
> What Django Reinhardt played in 1935 was not the same as what he
played in
> 1953. Also, he wasn't working in a vacuum. He was part of a music
scene
> that drew a great deal of inspiration from American jazz.
>
> Django started out idolizing Louis Armstrong and the early Hot Club
> recordings certainly owe something to Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang.
>
> I'm not saying Django was influenced by Charlie Christian any more
than by
> other jazz musicians like Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, or Artie
Shaw, or
> the later bop players. But the proof is in the listening, and in a few
> recordings from the early 1940s at least, you can hear some CC-style
licks.
>
> That takes nothing away from the man. Everybody is influenced by
somebody
> else. The greatest musician is also the best listener.
>
>
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