Echoes of Spain on an open thread
We are thinking of Spain on tonight’s Friday night open music thread.
By the supreme Django Reinhardt – Echoes of Spain (1939)
Django did more with three fingers than all of today’s musicians rolled up in one.
“Django” is a Romany word—the first-person singular of the verb meaning “to awake.” Perf.
Woke.
Django should be part of the soundtrack of your life.
In October of 1928, he was caught in a caravan fire, which scorched the right side of his body and burned his entire left, or notemaking, hand. He was more than a year recovering. The pain must have been unbearable, and he permanently lost the use of his pinkie and his ring finger, except as a stiff claw to force around the fretboard. Not only did he have to learn to use his hand again; he also had to come up with an entirely new way of fingering chords, using two or, at most, three and a half fingers where he once had had five. Though Dregni tries to explain it, it still seems a fishes-and-loaves miracle that all those minor ninths and sixths were made by two gimpy fingers sliding up and down the fretboard. The accident was the turning point in Django’s musical life; it forced his hand in every sense, and, for a prodigy who had always let his fingers do the thinking, it was clearly mind-expanding when the fingers had to think again.
Source: http://pamelageller.com/2017/08/spain.html/
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