Info: Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt (1910 - 1953) spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris playing banjo, guitar and violin.
At 18 he was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he lived in. The third and fourth digits on his left hand were badly burned. From then on he focused on guitar playing with only two fingers.
The "Quintette du Hot Club de France" was formed in 1934 by bass player Louis Vola with Reinhardt, violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt's brother Joseph and Roger Chaput on guitar.
![MySpace](javascript:GetThis('Django and Grappelli', '<a href="http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/django-p1.php"><img src="http://www.boreme.com/boreme/x-big/django.jpg" alt="Django and Grappelli" border="0" /></a>', 'http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/django-p1.php', '')){kind=link}