Hey all, I'm trying to put together some photos of all us idiots so we can recognize each other at festivals and the like...if you'd like to add your own,...
I had to re-list this as it did not sell. I hope it will find a good home. I promise you it is a good guitar. I am just better suited to the DG-500, so this...
Hello Gypsy Jazzers - Last Wednesday our Club Django-PZ was a year old, I can't believe it. Here in Penzance the club seems to have stirred up a great deal of...
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Wow! After nearly 40 yrs Polytone goes online! Have a look on the site of these legendary (for good and bad sides...) amps ciao MARCO ...
I think some of Django's 1949 Rome recordings with Gianni Safred are great and the piano mixes well with the strings. Safred has a nice elegant style kind of ...
I agree regarding the 1949 recordings but I'm afraid the main virtue of the piano there is that it is not intrusive, merely unnecessary. Django can carry the...
Mixing guitar and piano in a jazz setting is always a potential mess, no matter what style involved, mainstream, bebop or gypsyjazz. Both instruments can play...
We just went through this (guitar with piano in jazz) on the jazz guitar mailing list - without the Gypsy factor being brought up - and there are some terrific...
yeah, I was really happy about the fact that Andreas, Tchavalo, Sampson, Robin, and Dorado in particular made themselves very accessible to everyone (at least...
Jon, Did you break an ankle or something? It's good to have you back lately after your tango-dancing hiatus...I hope you'll stick around. Best, Jack....
We meet on the last Wednesday of the month at the Union Hotel Chapel Street Penzance starting from about 6.30 to ? (please confirm if you are coming as...
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I just flew in from Las Vegas and boy are my arms tired! This was my first DFNW. I'll definitely return. The setting is so beautiful and the entire festival is...
Hey Jon - well put, I agree with you're sentiments 100%. DFNW was incredible. I also enjoyed hanging around and experiencing the "real- life Tony Gatliff...
Pizzarelli and Ray Kennedy are a beautiful pairing, similarly the two Jim Hall/Evans collaborations. I appreciate Dave McKenna and Gray Sargent together, John...
Hi guys, I hope you left something of Dorado for we are so proud to have him come Saturday in our bi-annual reunion hook-up. I also hope he'll have some sort...
I just flew in from Las Vegas and boy are my arms tired! This was my first DFNW. I'll definitely return. The setting is so beautiful and the entire festival is...
Has anybody mentioned that Stephane Grappelli played piano. -Rob __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail...
Hi Paul - I bought it and it is well worth having, there are some really interesting things on the DVD. There is an audio section so its well the money - Doug ...
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A few weeks ago Ryan sent in the following post and there wasn't a definitive response to it. My buddy (not a subscriber) has both books and used them...
Hello all Quite by accident,I happened to be in a small village in rural Oxfordshire last weekend. I saw the following simple printed notice pinned up outside...
Sunday morning. Tchavolo walks down the main street of Langley Washington, a guitar thrust over his shoulder, a cigarette in hand. The snappy ocean air and...
Beautiful post Eddy! What more can I say: more guitars and less weapons, more musicians and fewer politicians all over the world! Ciao MARCO ... From:...
For all you that live in the western PA. area: James Perrett and Minor Swing will be performing Gypsy Jazz at the Villa Nova Inn in New Castle, Pa. on...
Eddy, that is so it! It was a great DFNW. So much good music and lots of love. That was a lovely recounting. I like your CD as well. You are really a fine...
Bob, which New Castle is that - there are actually two New Castle cities in PA - the one east of Pittsburgh or the one that is west of it? - David ... Ave. ...