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From George Harrison to Jerry Garcia: Five guitarists inspired by Django Reinhardt
Eoghan Lyng
SUN 23RD JAN 2022 12.30 GMT
Django Reinhardt isn’t a jazz guitarist. In many ways, he was the ultimate jazz guitarist. Re-calibrating the genre to suit his own needs, the guitar solos he wrote were soaked in invention, demonstrating an animal-like quality that was almost punk-like in its delivery.
Having lost some of his fingers in a fire, Reinhardt took a liking to jazz, where the genre of music facilitated his fiery style of playing. Reinhardt is remarkable, not simply because he recovered from injury, but because he changed the lexicon of guitar music.
It’s harder to find a guitarist who wasn’t influenced by Reinhardt than one who was, as his influence is so vast. Creating a twangy sound, Reinhardt’s structures were expansive in their delivery, but accessible in their presentation.
Disciples came from all genres. He influenced metal performers, bluegrass musicians, jazz players, and pop stars. His influence is most notably present in Wings, with three of its musicians bowing in his wake.
5: Tony Iommi
Like Reinhardt before him, Tony Iommi lost the tips off his fingers, which made it harder for him to learn the guitar. Yet Iommi was comforted by Reinhardt’s example and set out to conquer the instrument.
He’s best known for leading Black Sabbath through a myriad configuration, but Iommi was able to work with so many different singers and drummers, precisely because his guitar was so central to the work. He briefly tried his hand with Jethro Tull, but his style wasn’t right for that band.
“At the end of a few days, we probably both decided that it wasn’t going to work, because some of the songs I was writing were partly a little more complex, as I only discovered at the last minute, Tony was finding some of these things difficult to play,” Jethro Tull vocalist Ian Anderson explained to Far Out.
“The way I was playing them, and showing them on the guitar…what the chord sequences were…they were due to his physical limitations because of an industrial accident, but rather like Django Reinhardt, it didn’t stand in his way. It actually helped him develop a unique style, and laid down the foundation of everything you could call ‘heavy metal’. Tony was the man: Tony was the prime moving force. It inadvertently became a genre of music.”
From George Harrison to Jerry Garcia: Five guitarists inspired by Django Reinhardt
Eoghan Lyng
SUN 23RD JAN 2022 12.30 GMT
Django Reinhardt isn’t a jazz guitarist. In many ways, he was the ultimate jazz guitarist. Re-calibrating the genre to suit his own needs, the guitar solos he wrote were soaked in invention, demonstrating an animal-like quality that was almost punk-like in its delivery.
Having lost some of his fingers in a fire, Reinhardt took a liking to jazz, where the genre of music facilitated his fiery style of playing. Reinhardt is remarkable, not simply because he recovered from injury, but because he changed the lexicon of guitar music.
It’s harder to find a guitarist who wasn’t influenced by Reinhardt than one who was, as his influence is so vast. Creating a twangy sound, Reinhardt’s structures were expansive in their delivery, but accessible in their presentation.
Disciples came from all genres. He influenced metal performers, bluegrass musicians, jazz players, and pop stars. His influence is most notably present in Wings, with three of its musicians bowing in his wake.
5: Tony Iommi
Like Reinhardt before him, Tony Iommi lost the tips off his fingers, which made it harder for him to learn the guitar. Yet Iommi was comforted by Reinhardt’s example and set out to conquer the instrument.
He’s best known for leading Black Sabbath through a myriad configuration, but Iommi was able to work with so many different singers and drummers, precisely because his guitar was so central to the work. He briefly tried his hand with Jethro Tull, but his style wasn’t right for that band.
“At the end of a few days, we probably both decided that it wasn’t going to work, because some of the songs I was writing were partly a little more complex, as I only discovered at the last minute, Tony was finding some of these things difficult to play,” Jethro Tull vocalist Ian Anderson explained to Far Out.
“The way I was playing them, and showing them on the guitar…what the chord sequences were…they were due to his physical limitations because of an industrial accident, but rather like Django Reinhardt, it didn’t stand in his way. It actually helped him develop a unique style, and laid down the foundation of everything you could call ‘heavy metal’. Tony was the man: Tony was the prime moving force. It inadvertently became a genre of music.”