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Quote of the month: Django Reinhardt

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“Jazz always attracted me because in it I found the same formal perfection and instrumental precision that I also admire in classical music, but which most popular music doesn't have ...”

(Django Reinhardt)

Quote of the month: Romane

"If you don´t know how to play a cool Swing-Rhythm, you will not be able to play some cool Solos either ... it is like Duke Ellington said: "It don´t mean a thing if it aint got that swing!"

(Romane)

Quote of the month: Lulo Reinhardt

"Django sits up there on his cloud, looks down on us guitarrists shakes his head and says: "... do something else but copying me ..."

(Lulo Reinhardt)

(the German grand-nephew of Django Reinhardt)

Quote of the month: Angelo DeBarre

“Really good music must be played with your heart.
Anything else is just gymnastics ...”

(Angelo DeBarre)

Quote of the month: Stochelo Rosenberg

"If you know how to play some Django-Solos doesn´t mean
that you already know how to improvise like Django ..."

(Stochelo Rosenberg)

Quote of the month: Duke Ellington

"To play music is like comitting murder - you play as intending to do something ..."

(Duke Ellington)

Zitat des Monats: Coco Schumann

“If you have Swing in your blood
you don´t march in lock-step ...”

(Coco Schumann)

Quote of the month: Bix Beiderbecke

"One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is:
I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

(Bix Beiderbecke)

Quote of the month: Isaak Stern

"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music..."

(Isaac Stern)

Quote of the month: George Benson

"Yes, i listen to other guitarplayers.
They show me new concepts and
where the instrument may go to in future.

The greatest guitarrist in the world today
for me is Paco de Lucia, cause it´s really spanish
how he plays: autenthic and original...
and thats the way every musician should play!"

(George Benson)

Quote of the month: Miles Davis

“First i´am going to play and then later explain you what it is...”

(Miles Davis)

: 30 June 2015

Festival Djangos Erben - Koblenz - 2015 - canceled!

Due to a death in the Reinhardt-family this years annual Django Festival "Djangos Erben" lhad to be canceled. According to Sascha Reinhardt ( one of the organizers) the Festival will be repeated at a later time in another Ballroom-location.

We wish all the best and our condolences to Family Reinhardt, may god bless you!

Here is the exact message of the Family:

On August 21st and 22nd 2015 the 16. annual Koblenzer Sinti Musik & Kulturfestival "Djangos Erben" (Motto: together instead against each other - connecting Cultures) is taking place in Koblenz at the Fort Asterstein.

The Programm:

Friday, 21. August 2015

Opening 19.30 Uhr

Gipsy Trio Koblenz
Sascha Reinhardt Ensemble
Gismo Graf Trio

Saturday, 22. August 2015

Opening 19.30 Uhr

Diego Reinhardt & Friends
Amati Schmitt & Brady Winterstein
Jermaine Reinhardt Quartett

Tickets are available at the Festival