
Swing 42 - bass solo!?
I've loved the music of Django Reinhardt since I became aware of him as a keen jazz beginner in the summer of 2005. His cheeky style captured my musical imagination and I still play his records if I need cheering up. Don't be fooled though - Django is a guitarist of fearsome technique. He's not much of a 'scale player' and he prefers to outline changes with arpeggios. He also uses 'outside ideas' that tend to work through repetition and sequence (see bar 25). The A# in ba