Incredible rare high-quality footage of Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli performing in 1939. | The GuitArchive

14K views · 359 reactions | A Rare Live Recording From Django Reinhardt with its Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1938. #Django #gypsyjazz #guitarlegend #1938Live | Music is Life | Facebook

Django Reinhardt has been called “the greatest guitarist who ever lived.” During the 1930s and 40s, Reinhardt came up with solo and harmonic innovations on the guitar that had a big impact on modern jazz, blues, country, and rock guitar styles. Together with violinist Stephane Grappelli, Reinhardt came up with a new, European style of jazz, called gypsy jazz, or manouche jazz—by fusing Dixieland, swing jazz, French traditional music, gypsy music, and more. He was the first to pioneer a form of j