Gypsy jazz

Especially the older I get, it's like I can't...

You know, I went to Berklee, I studied gypsy jazz, I'm a clogger, I'm a-

Nice

... dancer, I'm a [laughs] you know-

... and it's like this killer.

Thanks.

So was that something, that was sort of what you, you said you studied gypsy jazz at, at, uh, Berklee.

Yeah.

And it's a gypsy jazz guitar.

And they have a kind of very unique sound and timbre and touch, because they're designed to be played fully acoustic.

Nowadays, of course, you have microphones to amplify them, but it's a real purely acoustic instrument.

And in a way, it's kind of similar to like violin, like you have to learn how just your body works.

and the energy of like gravity and relaxation to project.

And yeah, so that's a gypsy jazz guitar.

And it's quite sort of, the energy of the guitar when you make noise, it kind of shoots out.

It's like a very sort of punchy, loud guitar.

The ethnomusicologist Siv Lee treats it as a name outsiders gave Romanies, one that some reclaim and others reject.

Her 2021 book, Django Generations, follows Manouche musicians in France, Django's own community, who carry this music in their families now.

Some of them lean into gypsy imagery for one audience and push back on it for another.

In some quarters, at the time of this writing, the word itself is an unusable ethnic slur.

It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned Stevie Wonder a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance.

We will hear it in a very different musical accent, a gypsy jazz rendition by virtuoso guitarist Stocello Rosenberg from his 2005 album Ready and Able.

Thank you.

Thank you.

The first track on side B is I Wish, one of the album's great crowd pleasers.

It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned Stevie Wonder a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance.

We will hear it in a very different musical accent, a gypsy jazz rendition by virtuoso guitarist Stocello Rosenberg from his 2005 album Ready and Able.

Bye.

[musique de jazz] Bonjour, ici Marc Levassas.

Je vous souhaite la bienvenue pour une cinquième saison de Montréal et Jazz Manouche plus, la plateforme audio où se rencontrent les artistes du jazz manouche et des musiques acoustiques apparentées.

On parle de jazz, de musette, musique des Balkans, tsigane, flamenco, musique klezmer, musique du Moyen-Orient et plus largement, évidemment, musiques du monde.

Nous sommes diffusés sur CIBL 101,5 les mercredis 20 heures.

Vous pouvez également nous suivre sur Facebook, Instagram, YouTube et nous sommes également diffusés sur les principales pla-plateformes de diffusion musicale sous Montréal est Jazz Manouche.

Montréal est, E-S-T, jazz manouchet.

Manouche, plutôt, ouais.

Il nous reste encore pas mal de groupes de jazz manouche à connaître et on va en découvrir de nouveaux encore une fois cette année.

... we thought we could do this.

So that really was the, the, the birth of the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest.

Yeah.

So we did it on the farm.

And Harmonious Whale.

Mm-hmm.

And then I wanted to do something to start, uh, expanding the genre a little bit, so showing that the essence of what gypsy swing is, is not-

Mm-hmm

[musique de jazz manouche] CIBL 101,5 Montréal.

[musique de jazz manouche]

Bonjour, ici Marc Levasseur.

Je vous souhaite la bienvenue pour une cinquième saison de Montréal et Jazz Manouche Plus, la plateforme audio où se rencontrent les artistes du jazz manouche et des musiques acoustiques apparentées.

On parle de jazz, de musette, de musique des Balkans, tsigane, flamenco, musique klezmer, musique du Moyen-Orient et musiques du monde plus largement.

Nous sommes diffusés sur CIBL 101,5 les mercredis 20 h et vous pouvez également nous suivre sur Facebook, Instagram et YouTube.

Et également, nous sommes diffusés sur les principales plateformes musicales sous l'appellation Montréal est Jazz Manouche, Montréal est, E-S-T, Jazz Manouche.

Contrairement à notre habitude, je vous propose aujourd'hui un épisode sans la présence de musiciens au micro.