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Django Reinhardt: Djangologie/USA Vols. 1-7 (DRG/Swing Records)

Gene Santoro, Spin, April 1988

GYPSY GUITARIST Django Reinhardt offers an early modern (read post-phonograph) example of how pop music travels from its native habitat, is heard through alienated ears, and yields a hybrid no one could have foreseen.

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