Django Reinhardt - Out of Nowhere video free download

Out Of Nowhere, (Paris, 28/4/37)

Coleman Hawkins (ts), Alix Combelle (ts,cl), Benny Carter (as,tpt), Andre Ekyan (as), Stephane Grappelly (p), Django Reinhardt (g), Eugene d'Hellemmes (b), Tommy Benford (d)

"Out of Nowhere" by Johnny Greene and Edward Heyman became a standard piece of gypsy swing, a musical style established by Django Reinhardt in the 1930s.

Reinhardt' s nickname "Django" is the Romany word for "I awake".

Django spilled melody out in ferocious runs in spite of the fact that he had seriously injured his hand in a fire which left him with essentially two fingers to fret with. He retaught himself to play and reached a level of mastery that enabled him to survive in occupied Paris despite his Romany heritage and his stardom in a field of music condemned by the Nazis.

The band that he co-founded with the violinist Stephane Grappelly, "The Quintette of the Hot Club of France", swung with a jaunty sparkle and phenomenal virtuosity during the Interwar Years and was described as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz" (Thom Jurek).