Recently Lady / DJ Ameo took me to Dazzle here in Denver for an amazing show celebrating the life and legacy of the great Django Reinhardt - Tatiana Eva-Marie, is a Brooklyn-based singer and bandleader.
Born and raised in Europe in a professional musical family, a Swiss-French composer and a Romanian classical violinist, Tatiana Eva-Marie grew up equally fascinated by her father’s New Orleans jazz records and her mother’s heritage of Klezmer and Gypsy folk music. Tatiana discussed in between the beautiful renditions of Django classics how Paris was the influx of so many people on the 30s repressed and Django took advantage of this dynamic.
From Wikipedia: With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43.
Nicknamed “the Gypsy-jazz Warbler” by the New York Times and acclaimed as a “millennial shaking up the jazz scene” by Vanity Fair, Tatiana Eva-Marie returns to explore the music of composer Django Reinhardt through her own original arrangements and lyrics in her latest project “Djangology”, a tribute inspired by her French and Romanian Gypsy heritage and her love for the Parisian art scene of the 1920s to the 1960s.
So much amazing music today, new and looking to the past, now get out there and see a show and catch Tatiana & Avalon for sure if they're in your 'hood.
Rock on!
DJ Mateo
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