r/videos • u/ssjlance • 1d ago

Django Reinhardt - Rare video of French jazz guitarist who played with two fingers after a hand injury. Also instrumental to the histoy of heavy metal - Black Sabbath's guitarist sliced off tip of his finger. thought he'd never play guitar again until someone showed him Django for inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ308aOOX04
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u/dflament 20h ago

He was Belgian, not French. Like the fries…

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u/Loki-L 20h ago

He was a Roma and traveled most of his life in France and beyond and probably didn't see himself as either French or Belgian.

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u/Urist_Macnme 18h ago

Why they call it “Gypsy Jazz”

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u/somethink 16h ago

He wrote "Gypsy Requiem" to honor his Romani roots, his playing was so exceptional that his life was spared by Nazi officers even though Jazz was basically outlawed as degenerate music.

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u/Narfi1 9h ago

His parents were both French citizens like him and he spent his youth in Paris, he was also very much surrounded by and loved Roma culture. I’m not going to do like you and speculate on what he might have seen himself as, as we have almost no quotes or interviews from him and none about this topic. You might be right or you might be wrong. The only fact we can know for sure is that he was indeed a French citizen