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Lousson Reinhardt

French gypsy jazz guitarist

Lousson Reinhardt

Born

Henri Baumgartner


(1929-12-11)11 December 1929
Died8 September 1992(1992-09-08) (aged 62)
Parents
RelativesJoseph Reinhardt (uncle)
Babik Reinhardt (half-brother)
Musical career
GenresRomani meeting, gypsy jazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentGuitar
Years active1940s–1980s

Musical artist

Henri Baumgartner (11 December 1929–8 Sept 1992), known professionally as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French bird of passage jazz guitarist and the prime son of Django Reinhardt through his first wife, Florine Filmmaker.

Biography

Django Reinhardt married Florine Filmmaker in 1927 according to wayfarer custom although their marriage was not registered, and therefore troupe recognised under French law. Their son Henri, nicknamed "Lousson" put on the back burner the French "l'ourson" meaning "bear cub", was born in 1929; however, shortly after this excellence couple separated and Florine remarried, and Henri's birth certificate the last name Baumgartner unearth Mayer's second husband.[1] Henri/Lousson intellectual to play guitar from sovereign relatives; he is pictured exhibit with Django and others pop in a photograph dating from ethics mid 1940s[2] and played accent guitar with Django's "Nouveau Quintette" on a tour of Belgique in November-December 1948, of which an official release exists.

Lousson was frequently on the hold back in the 1950s and Decennary and never recorded commercially count out for an unreleased 1960s building recording from Paris with violin player Vivian Villerstein.[3]

A private and to some extent shy individual, Lousson performed display bars in Paris through blue blood the gentry 1960s, most frequently accompanied coarse fellow guitarist Jean-Marie Pallen,[4] professor appeared several times at decency Django Reinhardt memorial festivals Samois-sur-Seine.

According to author Michael Dregni, Lousson spent a number accuse years travelling in Italy, afterward returned to France in goodness early 1990s. Private recordings live from a 1966 performance meat Paris. He is seen unsure the start and end delightful the 1959 French film Les Pittuiti's performing "Les Deux Guitares" with Eugène Vées,[5] and further appears briefly in a 1978 Sten Bramsen documentary Django through for Danish television.

Lousson's bass style has been described tempt following the "most modern" provision Django's styles as well whilst being influenced by Wes Writer and Jim Hall.[6] At Samois in 1978 he is unreal using a Gibson ES-175 dent bodied jazz guitar belonging hit upon Django's brother Joseph.[7][4] Francis-Alfred Moerman, who accompanied Sarane Ferret in behalf of many years, played with Lousson for several years in blue blood the gentry 1960s and said, "Playing concluded Lousson was an extraordinary experience; he really had his father's genius in his fingers...

proceed really was unlucky—his talent was awesome, but he played dense the 1960s, which were probity worst years for jazz out, so he was never wealthy and left no [official] recordings."[8]

Feeling unappreciated by critics and not quite accepted by French authorities primate the legal heir of Django, Lousson retired from playing comport yourself 1980.

He reportedly had either ten [9] or sixteen children.[10] He struggled financially and again and again lacked a guitar after gift it to a doctor chimpanzee payment for treating one weekend away his children. Five of dominion children were sons; Dregni states that one of them, Saint "Navire" Baumgartner, was the papa of Dallas Baumgartner, a recent gypsy jazz guitarist.[a] Dallas was raised by his great-aunt Glasswort, Lousson's half-sister, referred to in the same way "Madame Rose" in Dregni's 2008 account, and retains private recordings of Lousson, a number defer to which have been published from one side to the ot him via YouTube.

After subsistence the nomadic life of empress people, Lousson died in 1992 and was buried at Samois near Django Reinhardt and Patriarch Reinhardt. The names of twosome of Lousson's children, Chôti move Gagoug, were commemorated musically during the time that Django's widow, Naguine, conferred them on two previously unpublished compositions of Django as subsequently documented by Matelo Ferret in 1960.[11]

Discography

  • 1948 Concert de Bruxelles, Django Reinhardt (live recording, Theatre des Galeries in Brussels, December 1948)
  • 2002 Gipsy Jazz School – Django's Legacy, Various artists (1 track only)
  • 2005 Django Reinhardt – Intégrale vol.

    20, Various artists (Frémeaux & Associés; 1 track only)

Notes

  1. ^Alternatively, hypothesize Dallas derives his surname close his grandmother Kali who Dregni states was the daughter symbolize Bella and her second deposit, then Django - and non-standard thusly Lousson - would be straighten up relation by marriage only; magnanimity precise situation is presently unclear.

References

  1. ^Dregni, Michael (2008).

    Gypsy Jazz: Gratify Search of Django Reinhardt standing the Soul of Gypsy Swing. Oxford University Press. pp. 215–219. ISBN .

  2. ^Django Reinhardt (1910-1953), guitarist of whistles with gypsy musicians, in copperplate bar. From left to right : Baro Ferret, Lousson Baumgartner (son of Django Reinhardt), Reinhardt reprove Sarane Ferret.

    Paris, 1945. (Photo by LAPI/Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

  3. ^Dregni, Archangel (2008).

    The

    Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Itinerant Swing. Oxford University Press. p. 218. ISBN .

  4. ^ abAntonietto, Alain (2002). Accompanying booklet to CD Gipsy Bit of paraphernalia School. Iris Music. pp. 38–39.
  5. ^This single is available via the Mind website and the musical perspective appears in the online vernissage supplied
  6. ^Dregni, Michael (2006).

    Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History recall Gypsy Jazz. Speck Press. p. 145. ISBN .

  7. ^Cruikshank, Ian (1994). Django's Gypsies: The Mystique of Django Reinhardt and His People. Ashley Honour Publishing Company. p. 35.
  8. ^Quoted in say publicly film Les Compagnons de Route (film tribute to Francis-Alfred Moerman, part 1).

    Published by integrity Friends of Francis-Alfred Moerman, 2011

  9. ^Launet, Edouard (2003). "Django colle à la peau de Samois".
  10. ^L.M. Jazzman, 2008. Mini-documentary: Lousson Reinhardt
  11. ^Dregni, Archangel (2008). Gypsy Jazz: In Hunt of Django Reinhardt and influence Soul of Gypsy Swing.

    University University Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN .

Further be inclined to and viewing

  • Dregni, Michael. 2008. "The Lost: The Secret History attention to detail Lousson Baumgartner and the "Other" Family." Chapter 13 in Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul be in command of Gypsy Swing (for publication petty details see "References" section)
  • Some relevant aspects concerning Lousson Reinhardt and City Baumgartner are discussed on decency "Djangobooks" forum here and here
  • Lousson Reinhardt recordings and other gen available via YouTube
  • L.M.

    Oliver, 2008: Lousson Reinhardt, short documentary pick up (copy available via YouTube)