{"id":5172,"date":"2016-10-20T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T23:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2016-10-31T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T16:42:33","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-roland-dyens-plays-django-reinhardts-nuages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-roland-dyens-plays-django-reinhardts-nuages\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Roland Dyens Plays Django Reinhardt&#8217;s &#8216;Nuages&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Video Pick was posted yesterday by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitarsalon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guitar Salon International <\/a>(GSI) and features the amazing Mssr. D performing one of French guitar great Django Reinhardt&#8217;s best-known compositions, <em>Nuages<\/em> (&#8220;Clouds&#8221;), introduced and recorded in the fall of 1940, and which, in the words of Michael Dregni in his superb book <em>Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend<\/em>, &#8220;became the ersatz theme of France during the [German] Occupation&#8230; The people happily embraced this song as their own. The melody seemed to come from Django out of thin air, as his amazed bandmates remembered.&#8221; You can hear a Django group version from 1940 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fq-t9TVbthc\">here<\/a>. And that&#8217;s him below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dyens&#8217; arrangement adds his own fanciful opening and then many distinctive touches throughout, never losing sight of Django&#8217;s original. All in all it&#8217;s a remarkable interpretation. Appropriately enough, too, Dyens plays the piece on a historic 1940s guitar made by fellow Frenchman Robert Bouchet.\u00a0<em>Nuages<\/em> is also the title track of a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ed0pjM\" target=\"_blank\">2014 Dyens CD<\/a> we recommend highly; a disc that also includes pieces by Miles Davis, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Erik Satie, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and, of course, Dyens himself.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5174\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/django-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"django\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/django.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/django.jpg?w=356&amp;ssl=1 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Video Pick was posted yesterday by our friends at Guitar Salon International (GSI) and features the amazing Mssr. D performing one of French guitar great Django Reinhardt&#8217;s best-known compositions, Nuages (&#8220;Clouds&#8221;), introduced and recorded in the fall of 1940, and which, in the words of Michael Dregni in his superb book Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, &#8220;became the ersatz theme of France during the [German] Occupation&#8230; The people happily embraced this song as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-5172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","tag-rolanddyens","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/roland.jpg?fit=598%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}