GYPSY JAZZ : in search of Django Reinhardt and the soul of gypsy Swing

New York: Oxford Univ Press, 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,..