Nomadic People and Gypsy jazz terminology

Recommended Listening

• The Funk Brothers – Evolutionary Science and Culture – Music Makes You Smarter
• Root / Routes Music and their origins.
• Your Brain on Jazz Johns Hopkins otolaryngolost and jazz musician Charles Limb talks about “The Brain on Jazz “–“Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Improvisation.”
• The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. Daniel Levitin’s – The World in Six Songs has attracted a serious fan following, including Sting, Joni Mitchell and Willie Nelson. Neuroscientist, rock producer, and best selling author (This is Your Brain on Music) Levitin talks about his research for this fascinating book that takes the reader on a journey of the world through 6 types of songs–friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion/ritual, and love.
• The Music of Language and the Language of Music.
• The Vintage Jazz Database

Recommended Readings

In addition, I highly recommend the following reads for further exploration about Django Reinhardt 1910-1953 as well as the history and style of gypsy jazz:

• Sweet and Lowdown Django Reinhardt-style guitar work of Howard Alden on the soundtrack CD Woody Allen Film.
• 3 degress of separation Tamony – > Byrd -> Reinhardt
• Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend By Michael Dregni
  Oxford University Press, USA 2004
• Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing By Michael Dregni
• Django Reinhardt by Charles Delaunay, Michael James
• Jean ‘Django’ Reinhardt By Paul Vernon

Gypsy Caravan
(When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan)
2006
Join five international bands for a six-week tour of North America in an extravaganza of music and culture. The lyrical documentary features performances by Esma Redzepova, Maharaja, Fanfare Ciocarlia and other artists. Celebrate the diversity of the Romani people and their music, which includes flamenco, brass band, Indian folk, Romanian violin, jazz and raga. Johnny Depp, a fan of the Gypsy lifestyle, appears in this joyful musical portrait.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Taraf de Haidouks, Antonio El Pipa Flamenco Ensemble, Maharaja, Esma Redzepova

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Nomadic People and Gypsy jazz terminology

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Gypsy Jazz:	Genre of music evolved after American jazz came to Europe, created by Romani musicians living around Paris in the 1930s, notably Pierre “Baro” Ferret and Django Reinhardt. Also called Hot Club swing, after Django’s first jazz ensemble, le Quintette du Hot Club de France.
La Pompe:	The rhythm technique used by Gypsy guitarists in Hot Club swing music. In English, it means “the pump.” This distinct pulse allows one or two guitarists to take the place of drums and keyboard in a traditional Hot Club group.
Gadje:	Romani term for non-Gypsy.
Gitans:	Romani gypsies (masculine – gitan, feminine gitane).
Grande Bouche:	French for “large mouth.” This term pertains to the original Selmer jazz guitar designed by Mario Maccaferri with a large D-shaped sound hole. This design is still preferred by most rhythm guitar players in gypsy swing ensembles today.
Jazz Manouche:	More widely accepted term for Gypsy jazz, from the French branch of the Romani people, the Manouche.
Petite Bouche:	French for ‘small mouth.’ The Selmer acoustic jazz guitar preferred by Django, featuring a small, oval-shaped sound hole for more intense solo projection. Only around a thousand Selmer petite bouche guitars were ever built.
Roma, Romani:	Proper name of the ethnic group commonly known as the Gypsies. The Romani people are believed to have been displaced from Northern India around 1,000 A.D.
Selmer:	Musical instrument company founded by Henri Selmer in Paris, France, which produced Django Reinhardt’s favorite guitar, originally designed for Selmer by Italian luthier Mario Maccaferri. Production on these guitars stopped in the early 1950s. This is the same Selmer Co. which is world famous for their wind instruments.
Sinti:	Also Cinti. Romani people primarily based in Germany and the Netherlands. The Sinti arrived in Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages, eventually splitting into two groups: Eftavagarja (“the Seven Caravans”) and Estraxarja (“from Austria”). These two groups then expanded, the Eftavagarja into France, where they are called “Manouches”, and the Estraxarja into Italy and Eastern Europe, mainly what are now Croatia, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, eventually adopting various regional names. The Sinti have produced some number of renowned musicians, such as Drafi Deutscher or the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and Biréli Lagrène. The Sinto Häns’che Weiss produced a record in Germany in the 1970s in which he sang about the Poraimos (Roma Holocaust) in his own language. Many younger Germans first learned about this part of Holocaust history as a result of this recording. Titi Winterstein and several members of Reinhardt’s clan still play traditional and modern “Gypsy jazz” all over Europe. The jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul was also of Sinte (Sintenghero) descent. In Italy they are present mainly in Piedmont region. The Romani people recognize divisions among themselves based in part on territorial, cultural and dialectal differences and self-designation. See also * Romani music
Wegen:	Special handcrafted guitar pick made by Dutch artisan Michael Wegen. Formed from synthetic material resembling natural tortoise shell, this plectrum is universally preferred by jazz Manouche guitarists across the globe.
IRISH TRAVELLERS	Irish Travellers (Irish: Lucht siúil) are an itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. It is estimated that 25,000 Travellers live in Ireland and 7,000 in the United States. The number of Travellers living in Great Britain is uncertain, with estimations ranging between 15,000 and 300,000 Travellers refer to themselves as “Paveesquot;, whereas some English people often refer to them with the derogatory terms “Pikeysquot”, “Gyposquot”; “Jidders”; “Shamsquo” or “Knackersquot”. In Irish, Travellers are called an Lucht siúil (literally “the people of walking”). Many non-Pavee people (called “buffersquot”, “country people” or sometimes “rooters” still use the term “tinkers” from the Irish tincéirí, sg. tincéir or “tinsmith.”