How Django Reinhardt got the whole world on a string

An injury in a fire could have ended Django Reinhardt's career. Instead, he reinvented the jazz guitar and became a legend. Garth Cartwright celebrates the Gypsy king's centenaryA hundred years ago this month, a child was born in a Gypsy caravan at a Belgian crossroads. The baby was christened "Jean", but to his people he was always Django, from a Romany verb meaning: "I awake." Never was a name more aptly given: a century on and Django Reinhardt remains the greatest jazz musician Europe ever pr...

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