New Album: Thomas Baggerman Trio "Le Weekend"

ORDER THE NEW CD "LE WEEKEND" BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK! Proudly presenting a short preview on the debut album by Dutch upcoming Gypsy Jazz talent Thomas Baggerman and his trio (my guitar teacher)! The album "Le Weekend" will be released September 2011 and is a subtle mix of Swing, Bossa, Traditional and Ballads. The catchy title track, written by Thomas himself, already created a little buzz on the Samoreau camping site this year at the Festival Django Reinhardt in Samois.
Thomas is a dedicated player with an articulate and meticulous melodic phrasing. Heavily inspired by Stochelo Rosenberg, Adrien Moignard and more recently Les Doigts de L'Homme and of course Bireli Lagrene, his goal to make the guitar weep is one he achieves more and more often.

Hope you will enjoy! I know I did!!

Cheers!
The Gypsy jazz Diaries

more information on the Thomas Baggerman Trio:
www.thomasbaggermantrio.com

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PS: Very proud to say also; I made the video ;-)


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Second time Samois was great!!!

Check out pictures of our trip to Samois this year, were we visited the annual Festival Django Reinhardt!

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Nuages

Gypsy Jazz needs more musicians and less soldiers. (Adrien Moignard)



A little update on my going along my Gypsy Jazz quest; I enrolled in two wonderfull online Gypsy Jazz courses: http://www.gypsyjazzacademy.com/ and http://www.rosenbergacademy.com/ Both of them help me make loads of progress due to the clear interfaces and wonderfull interaction with teachers like: Fapy Lafertin, Lollo Meier and of course Stochelo Rosenberg. Theire lessons (and those of my personal real life teacher Thomas Baggerman and jam buddy Frédéric Zolnet) combined with feedback from fellow students finaly made me realize a great but yet simple point: Start with an relatively easy song and play it untill it's absolutely right.
So I got rid of all the finger breaking solos and started on a low-tempo version of Nuages I found in Samy Daussat's book: Astuces de la guitare Manouche vol. 2 and I started practicing on vibrato, timing, pronounciation of the notes, slides, bends and hammer on's (but not after I got the rythm section right). Then I watched and listened to recordings by Stochelo and Fapy and combined some of theire ideas into my own little intro.....This video is what I came up with so far, it still needs work but I have to get going on my rythm practice so I can try to play along a little at Samois this year. Hope you like it!

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My grandmother wishes you a Swinging 2011!!!

A marvelous story my grandmother often tells me about Django Reinhardt:

As a young girl during world war II she used to live in Toulouse in the South of France. One night she and her sister in law broke the curfew the occupying Germans had ordered. Pretending to be officer's wives they snook in to an auditorium where Django was performing for the German military forces.
Here eyes still sparkle every time she talks about the wonderful music Django played that night!

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Documentary

Het Thomas Baggerman Trio - "Minor Swing" by D.Reinhardt from Alexander Koning on Vimeo.

So I thought I'd post a little sneak preview from my new project in wich I combine my passion about Gypsy Jazz with my love for documentary filmmaking. In this clip my guitar teacher Thomas Baggerman and his Trio (who are some of the main characters in the film) play theire version of Django's "Minor Swing".

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Jimmy's back!

Jimmy Rosenberg performing again at BIMHUIS Amsterdam!

A collection of the videos on Youtube made from the Jimmy's guest appearance at the "Three of kind" concerts in Amsterdam wich I was lucky enough to attend to.






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A night in town!

50 people and; Bireli, Stochelo, Paulus



I couldn't believe what I saw last night when I accidentaly came by an add for this "Three of kind concert" in my hometown Utrecht. Only 50 people in the audience and the line-up: Stochelo Rosenberg, Bireli Lagrene, Paulus Schafer!!! Don't people understand great music?


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My new "La Fée" D-Hole Gypsy jazz guitar!

A real beauty!



Proudly presenting my new "La Fée" guitar handcrafted by the excellent young french luthiers from "Guitares La Fée". Carefully chosen after the great help
from the guys at "Guitare village" in Domont near Paris. Playing a little intro to "Minor Blues" by legendary Django Reinhardt. Now the only thing left to do is learn how to play it ;-)

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The Gypsy Jazz video collection; Concerts

Keep an eye on this post as it will be updated with interresting Gypsy Jazz concert video's from time to time!


Django Reinhardt connexion
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Gipsy Jazz guitar masters, a beautiful example of Stochelo Rosenberg and Romane playing togheter.

The legendary Gipsy Project organized by Bireli Lagrene.




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Work in progress : MINOR SWING

Yeah, I know, but I just couldn't help myself....

Aldough I now really understand the importance of good technique, and taking it slow at first, I could not help myself recording my efforts on "Minor Swing" that I was working on for some time now. It is a way to celebrate my first six monts of guitar playing I think. Anyway, I won't play Minor Swing for awhile, It's now back to Gypsy Picking technique and rhythm practice.


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