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Django Reinhardt

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Also known as Jean B. Reinhardt, Jiango Renard, Django Reinhart, Jean Reinhardt, Jean Baptiste Reinhardt

Romani-Belgian /French jazz musician (1910–1953)

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Django Reinhardt (1910–1953) was a French guitarist, composer, and jazz musician. Born Jean Reinhardt in Pont-à-Celles, he began his professional work in 1928. He performed in genres including jazz, Gypsy jazz, bebop, and Romani music, playing the guitar, violin, and banjo. His recorded works include *Best of Django Reinhardt*, *Essential electric*, *Django Reinhardt Anthology*, *Django Reinhardt - A Treasury Of Songs*, and *Django Reinhardt - The Definitive Collection*.

Reinhardt was a male who spoke French. He had a sibling named Joseph Reinhardt and a child named Babik Reinhardt. He died of natural causes due to a cerebral hemorrhage in Samois-sur-Seine.

Synthesized by Vinony from 43 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1910
Died
1953
Works
9

Top works

  • Best of Django Reinhardt
  • Essential electric
  • Django Reinhardt Anthology
  • Django Reinhardt - A Treasury Of Songs
  • Django Reinhardt - The Definitive Collection

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Film & TV

Acting · Liberchies, Wallonia, Belgium

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known to all by his Romani nickname Django, was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group…

Known for

  • Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp — Self (Archive Footage)2025
  • Django Reinhardt, trois doigts de génie — Self2010
  • Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz — Self2010
  • Legends — Self (archive footage)2006
  • Familiengeschichten — Self2000
  • ZDF-Fernsehgarten — Self1986
  • Django Reinhardt — Self (archive footage)1957
  • Stage Door Canteen — Django Reinhardt (uncredited)1943
  • Jazz Hot — Self1939
  • Moonlight — Self (uncredited)1932

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1910-01-23
Active to
1953-05-16
belgiancontinental jazzguitargypsy jazzjazzroma

Discography

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
797,224
Total plays
17,224,452

Tags

jazzswinggypsy jazzguitarjazz guitar

Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 - 16 May 1953) was a Belgian guitarist and composer credited with popularizing Gypsy jazz, as well as conceptualizing the style together with several other Gypsy musicians. Reinhardt's nickname purportedly means "I Awake" in the Romani language; however, it may also have been a diminutive or a local Walloon version of "Jean." He severely injured two of the digits on his left hand as a youth and changed his guitar playing style to adapt to his handicap. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,623x

  2. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow

    · 2002 · cited 4,417x

  3. The gem5 simulator

    · 2011 · cited 4,293x

  4. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy

    · 2012 · cited 2,621x

  5. Revealing structure and assembly cues for Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota

    · 2012 · cited 2,302x

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Music

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Official website

[Django Station] - Django Reinhardt - Jazz Manouche - Jazz Gitan - Swing Manouche - Jazz français - Gypsy Jazz

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a Belgian-born Romani jazz guitarist and composer who lived most of his life in France. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents.

With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. He died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage in 1953 at the age of 43.

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