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Quote of the month: Django Reinhardt

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“Jazz always attracted me because in it I found the same formal perfection and instrumental precision that I also admire in classical music, but which most popular music doesn't have ...”

(Django Reinhardt)

Quote of the month: Romane

"If you don´t know how to play a cool Swing-Rhythm, you will not be able to play some cool Solos either ... it is like Duke Ellington said: "It don´t mean a thing if it aint got that swing!"

(Romane)

Quote of the month: Lulo Reinhardt

"Django sits up there on his cloud, looks down on us guitarrists shakes his head and says: "... do something else but copying me ..."

(Lulo Reinhardt)

(the German grand-nephew of Django Reinhardt)

Quote of the month: Angelo DeBarre

“Really good music must be played with your heart.
Anything else is just gymnastics ...”

(Angelo DeBarre)

Quote of the month: Stochelo Rosenberg

"If you know how to play some Django-Solos doesn´t mean
that you already know how to improvise like Django ..."

(Stochelo Rosenberg)

Quote of the month: Duke Ellington

"To play music is like comitting murder - you play as intending to do something ..."

(Duke Ellington)

Zitat des Monats: Coco Schumann

“If you have Swing in your blood
you don´t march in lock-step ...”

(Coco Schumann)

Quote of the month: Bix Beiderbecke

"One of the things I like about Jazz, kid, is:
I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

(Bix Beiderbecke)

Quote of the month: Isaak Stern

"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music..."

(Isaac Stern)

Quote of the month: George Benson

"Yes, i listen to other guitarplayers.
They show me new concepts and
where the instrument may go to in future.

The greatest guitarrist in the world today
for me is Paco de Lucia, cause it´s really spanish
how he plays: autenthic and original...
and thats the way every musician should play!"

(George Benson)

Quote of the month: Miles Davis

“First i´am going to play and then later explain you what it is...”

(Miles Davis)

: 15 May 2020

Corona-AntiLockdown Song

As already described in our other articles in our JM-News, the national Lockdown has created a legal job prohibition for many musicians worldwide.
Actually in germany all events with 100+ Persons are allowed from 01st Juli. But anyway this year 2020 many big venues and events as Festivals are called quit for the artists.

To set a sign against this legal work prohibition, and to show we are still here and will be working also after the Corona Lockdwn has ended, furthermore to give a little hope to fellow musicians that are affected by this we have recorded the song "The show must go on" by Freddy Mercury / Queen in a Jazz-Version with different musicians. Have fun with it (may as well share it)!

Part 1 https://youtu.be/UDZrNmdgOqo

Part 2 https://youtu.be/er-Kpscn_VU