When Gypsy Jazz legend and jazz innovator Django Rheinhardt made his American tour in 1946, his stops in the mid-western towns of Minneapolis, Omaha, and Lincoln have been documented. What has not been recorded, a subsequent side-trip to Lawrence, Kansas, where negotiations for a future "Blue Ridge Mountain Gypsy Boys" tour east with Bluegrass innovator, Bill Monroe broke down. Reinhardt quipped, "Oui, la musique de Bluegrass peut etre confortable, mais je ne pourrais pas traiter les combinaisons de bavoir... Meme un bohemien a des normes." (Yes, Bluegrass music may be comfortable, but I could not deal with the bib overalls... Even a Gypsy has standards.)

Tristement, sa perte...

Pictured: Bill Monroe (Father of Bluegrass), Ninine Tichenor (Grandfather of mandolin web author pioneer and celebrity), and Django Rheinhardt (Father of Gypsy Jazz).

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Quel est un coup de hache de G ?

Django and Bill in "le Pompe?"
Imagine: together they'd romp...
A two-fingered G-chop
In High Mountain Bebop.
As "rubes" at Rue Monge swing and stomp.

Posted by Ted at October 6, 2005 11:01 AM