Babik Reinhardt

Jean -Jacques " Babik " Reinhardt ( born June 8, 1944 in Paris, † 13 November 2001 in Grasse ) was a French guitarist of Gypsy jazz.

Life and work

Reinhardt was the son of legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and Sophie Ziegler. Basics of guitar playing taught him his mother after his father frühverstorbener had laid the musical foundations. From the age of fourteen, he was taught by Eugène Vées, with whom he performed well. Then he turned to the piano and decided in 1959 for the guitar. In the early 1960s he played (together with René Mailhes ) Rock ' n ' Roll at Glen Jack and his Glenners. In 1965 he returned to jazz and has performed with Jean -Luc Ponty. In 1977 he recorded his first, the Gypsy Swing verpflichtetes album for Charles Delaunay Label Vogue. Always in the shadow of his brilliant father Babik Reinhardt was both tradition True and founded a Nouveau Quintette du Hot Club de France, but also played with more "modern " musicians like Raphael Fays, Christian Escoudé, Larry Coryell, Bobby Rangell, Didier Lockwood or Boulou Ferré.

Babik Reinhardt died on 13 November 2001 at the age of 55 of a heart attack in the southern French town of Grasse. He was the father of nine children, including guitarist David Reinhardt.

Lexical entry

• Philippe Carles, André Clergeat, Jean -Louis Comolli: Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz. Édition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3