Music: Django Music

Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn't jazz critics like France's Hugues PanassiƩ called him Europe's leading jazz artist and the world's greatest jazz guitarist? Django was so certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar.

The concert manager, for one, had never heard of Django Reinhardt, so...

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