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Article: `Gypsy legend' was complex, talented - and all that jazz.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 19, 2004
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Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer
He was Europe's first jazz star. At the peak of his popularity, from 1937 to 1943, movie stars danced to his music and royalty lined up to shake his hand. Young men grew their moustaches in imitation of him.
Django Reinhardt was a bundle of contradictions. He spoke eloquently through his guitar, achieving a unique amalgam of jazz and his own Gypsy heritage, and yet was illiterate for most of his life, unable to read words or music. He was a virtuoso guitarist, even though at 18 he lost the use of two fingers on his left hand because of a fire. He was described as "the idiot savant of jazz" and yet he composed a ...
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... ... 0000 Dateline: LONDON Publisher Max Reinhardt, whose first signing was George Bernard ... at 86, his secretary said Thursday. Reinhardt died Nov. 19 in a London nursing home ... Nov. 30, 1915 to Austrian parents, Reinhardt was educated at the city's English ...
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