Django, Jazz and the Nazis in Paris.(Django Reinhardt's music and World War II)(Excerpt)

John D. Pelzer shows the connections between Jazz, Youth and the German Occupation. IN HIS NOVEL the Second World War from Here to Eternity, James Jones sought to convey the music of Belgian-born gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, whose rhythms and melodies had a profound impact upon Europe's pre-World War music scene: `But when it came to describing for them who had never heard it the poignant fleeting exquisitely delicate melody of that guitar, memory always faltered.

There was no way to describe them that. You had to hear that, the steady, swinging, never wavering beat ...

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