Dorado Schmitt

Dorado Schmitt

Birth : 1957-05-29, Saint-Avold, Moselle, France

History

Dorado Schmitt is a French guitarist and violinist in Gypsy jazz. He started playing guitar at the age of seven with his father as his teacher. His father also introduced him to violin. Schmitt composed his own pieces, incorporating improvisation and challenging techniques, among which Bossa Dorado which has become a jazz standard. He eventually became as comfortable with swing and gypsy waltz as with bossa nova and flamenco.

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Dorado Schmitt

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Django Reinhardt NY Festival - Live at Birdland 2004
Django Reinhardt NY Festival - Live at Birdland 2004
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Pat Phillips & Ettore Stratta launched the first-ever DJANGO REINHARDT FESITVAL in 2000 at Birdland in NYC which has become its home. Now entering its sixth year, the fesitval serves to preserve and cary forward the musical legacy of Django Reinhardt and the myriad possibilities that grow from his prodigious talent and inspiration. The festival presents the world's top players of this 'hot gypsy jazz', and invites America's jazz greats as guests to create new musical friendships in a thrilling expansion of the music.