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New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Date: 2008 Oxford University Press, New York. 2008. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail; small smudge on textblock fore edge. DJ: Very Good; light wear at tips; light bumping to tail; light rubbing to panels; small closed tear at front gutter. Purple paper over boards with red overlay on the spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 333 pp 8vo. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in recorded music. Beginning with Django Reinhardt, whose dazzling Gypsy Jazz became the toast of 1930s Paris in the heady days of Josephine Baker, Picasso, and Hemingway, Dregni follows the music as it courses through caravans on the edge of Paris, where today's young French Gypsies learn Gypsy Jazz as a rite of passage, along the Gypsy pilgrimage route to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where the Romany play around their campfires, and finally to the new era of international Gypsy stars such as Bireli Lagrene, Boulou Ferre, Dorado Schmitt, and Django's own grandchildren, David Reinhardt and Dallas Baumgartner. Interspersed with Dregni's vivid narrative are the words of the musicians themselves, ...
ISBN10: 0195311922, ISBN13: 9780195311921, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, NY] Hardcover First Edition Oxford University Press, New York. 2008. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to tail; small smudge on textblock fore edge. DJ: Very Good; light wear at tips; light bumping to tail; light rubbing to panels; small closed tear at front gutter. Purple paper over boards with red overlay on the spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 333 pp 8vo. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in recorded music. Beginning with Django Reinhardt, whose dazzling Gypsy Jazz became the toast of 1930s Paris in the heady days of Josephine Baker, Picasso, and Hemingway, Dregni follows the music as it courses through caravans on the edge of Paris, where today's young French Gypsies learn Gypsy Jazz as a rite of passage, along the Gypsy pilgrimage route to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer where the Romany play around their campfires, and finally to the new era of international Gypsy stars such as Bireli Lagrene, Boulou Ferre, Dorado Schmitt, and Django's own grandchildren, David Reinhardt and Dallas Baumgartner. ...
New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195311922 . From the dust jacket: "Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography "Django." This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names, and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo, 8"- 9" tall; 333 pages . 2008. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195311922 9780195311921 [US]
New York: Oxford Univ Press, Date: 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, pp., xii, 333 , illustrated, CONTENTS: The guitar with a human voice : in search of Django Reinhardt -- The boy with the banjo : into a zigzag paradise -- Bals musette : music from the dark side of the City of Light -- Jazz modernistique : revisiting the Babylon of gypsy jazz -- Songs of one thousand and one nights : Django Reinhardt, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, and gypsy jazz under the Nazis --Gypsy bebop : from Dizzy and Bird to Django and the Gibson generation -- Les guitares a? moustache : revolutionary jazz guitars for a jazz revolution -- Crossroads : on the road to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer --Dynasty : Les Fre?res Ferret and their musical clan -- La dernie?re valse des niglos : saints and sinners of the Malha clan -- Au son des guitares : on the trail of Patotte Bousquet -- The unsung master of the gypsy waltz : tracing the legacy of Tchan Tchou -- The lost : the secret history of Lousson Baumgartner and the other family.Minstrel : Bamboula Ferret and the travels of a Romany troubadour -- Resurrection : the new elegance of Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, and Ninine Garcia -- The music thieves : into America with Danny Fender, Johnny Guitar, John Adomono, and Julio Bella -- Gypsy jazz rap : syntax and the search for le meilleur chemin -- The most dangerous guitar lesson : jamming with David Reinhardt. Size: 8 vo,.. 2008. Oxford Univ Press ISBN 0195311922 ...
ISBN10: 0195311922, ISBN13: 9780195311921, [publisher: Oxford Univ Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition cloth, pp., xii, 333 , illustrated, CONTENTS: The guitar with a human voice : in search of Django Reinhardt -- The boy with the banjo : into a zigzag paradise -- Bals musette : music from the dark side of the City of Light -- Jazz modernistique : revisiting the Babylon of gypsy jazz -- Songs of one thousand and one nights : Django Reinhardt, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, and gypsy jazz under the Nazis --Gypsy bebop : from Dizzy and Bird to Django and the Gibson generation -- Les guitares a? moustache : revolutionary jazz guitars for a jazz revolution -- Crossroads : on the road to Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer --Dynasty : Les Fre?res Ferret and their musical clan -- La dernie?re valse des niglos : saints and sinners of the Malha clan -- Au son des guitares : on the trail of Patotte Bousquet -- The unsung master of the gypsy waltz : tracing the legacy of Tchan Tchou -- The lost : the secret history of Lousson Baumgartner and the other family.Minstrel : Bamboula Ferret and the travels of a Romany troubadour -- Resurrection : the new elegance of Bireli Lagrene, Stochelo Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, and Ninine Garcia -- The music thieves : into America with Danny Fender, Johnny Guitar, John Adomono, and Julio Bella -- Gypsy jazz rap : syntax and the search for le meilleur chemin -- The most dangerous guitar lesson : jamming with David Reinhardt. Size: 8 vo,. ...
Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195311922 9780195311921 [US]
ISBN10: 0195311922, ISBN13: 9780195311921, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the 20th century, none is more passionate, up-tempo, or steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, this work captures the history and culture of this elusive music. [Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing. ISBN 0195311922 9780195311921 [GB]
Hardback. New. Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the 20th century, none is more passionate, up-tempo, or steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. Blending travelogue, detective story, and personal narrative, this work captures the history and culture of this elusive music. ISBN 0195311922 9780195311921 [GB]
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