Mandino Reinhardt

Mandino Reinhardt (born April 10, 1956 ) is a French jazz musician ( guitar , composition ) and has been a key figure in gypsy jazz for many years .

Reinhardt comes from a family of musicians with a manouche tradition and grew up in Strasbourg . In the early 1980s he founded the Sweet Chorus Formation , in which his brother Sony Reinhardt and Patrick Andresz performed on rhythm guitars , Jean-Pierre Demas on double bass, Pierre Zeidler on clarinet, Marcel Loeffler on accordion and Ghislain Muller on vibraphone. Two albums were made in 1984 and 1986. In the band Note Manouche , which existed during the 1990s, he recorded two albums with Marcel Loeffler and Tchavolo Schmitt . In 2002 he and Tchavolo Schmitt were responsible for a large part of Tony Gatlif's soundtrack for the film Swing , in which he was discovered as an actor. In 2004 the album Digo o divès was created with the violinist Costel Nitescu, which was followed in 2008 by Le Swing du Luthier .

literature

Siv Lie: Rich Theory: Mandino Reinhardt on Jazz Manouche in Alsace Jazz & Culture 1 (2018), pp. 104–121.
Michael Dregni: Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008

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SURNAME	Reinhardt, Mandino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French jazz musician (guitar, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 10, 1956