Blog: The Vinyl District

Yo, Les Paul’s got game!  His Google tribute doodle gets a second day of play. Bloggers and music enthusiasts are scuttling to transcribe their favorite rock chords. And a new generation, feeding off the high fructose corn syrupy allure of Justin Bieber, is getting a real lesson in jazz history. This revival of Les’s influence will inevitably reveal another giant who preceded him: Django Reinhardt . Reinhardt was a pioneer of a guitar sound known as Gypsy swing. It’s derived from [...]