‘Django was music made into a man.’

There’s a wonderful NPR story about the centenary of Django Reinhardt’s birth.  Here’s a film of him in the best possible setting, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.  Watch his chording hand– he’s only using two fingers, because of an accident in a fire that could have ended his caree

For another film clip of him him playing, check out the top one on this post–the clip of Django is in the middle.