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.
A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages-and increasingly on the world's gre...
Michael Dregni expertly traces the development of Gypsy Jazz not through straight musical history, but instead in a fascinating travelogue and detective story, following its birth with Django and its subsequent legacy, including all of the famous guitarists who have followed in Django's footsteps-Bir¿ Lagr¿, Boulou Ferr¿Dorado Schmitt, and others.
A roll down memory lane is a lot better on the back of a Harley. Harleys have a way of catching the eye, that extra something that sets them apart as the proudest, baddest, best-built machines around. There's no denying the fact that Harley-Davidsons are more than just motorcycles, since its founding in 1903, the make has become an American icon revered around the globe. In THIS OLD HARLEY, editor Michael Dregni compiles the stories, tall tale...
Nato in un carrozzone zingaro a un crocevia in Belgio, Django Reinhardt, nonostante una mutilazione alla mano sinistra sofferta da ragazzo, diventa in pochi anni uno dei più famosi jazzisti europei, guadagnandosi l'apprezzamento dei protagonisti del jazz d'oltreoceano, da Armstrong a Ellington. La sua personalità era geniale, lirica e imprevedibile: vestiva con gli abiti più alla moda, era capace di ottenere compensi enormi e di spenderli alla...
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great guitarist. Handsome, charismatic, childlike, and unpredictable, Reinhardt was a character out of a picaresque novel. Born in a gypsy caravan at a cr...
