Two-finger guitar genius of Django Reinhardt | Rick Beato and Lex Fridman

Did you show up here today, Rick? [laughter] Trying to tell me that Hendrickx is not up there. I just I'm getting that vibe right now. >> No, I'm not. I I but I don't want to say greatest, you know, you you can say, well, there there are people that that inspire Jimmyi Hendris, >> Charlie Christian, older guitar players. Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt were the first two really big and probably and Andre Segoia were were three of the giants of the 20th century as far as guitar influences for most of the players that were to follow. So here going to perplexity Django Reinhardt was of course a jazz guitarist and composer active mainly in France and is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history. So Django was um well there's a huge movement right now gypsy jazz movement as they call it that is um kind of built around the style of music that he played back in the early 20th century. One of the things about Django is that he was in a fire and he had two of his uh third and fourth finger. So his his ring finger and pinky were essentially melted together. He had no use of them. Although he could use them while he was recording, but a lot of these incredibly fast lines he's just playing with two fingers. And it's amazing. [music] [music] That [laughter] >> What is that? So that's gypsy jazz. >> That's gypsy jazz. Yeah. [music] him. Stefan Graelli was a violinist that played with him a lot. >> How much of this is improvisation? >> Everything he's doing there is impro improvised. [music] >> Feels so free. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> And fun like swing.

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