Gipsy guitar swing

14 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Gypsy Jazz, JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo

Details:
Diknu Schneeberger Trio

Diknu, born 17.01.1990 in Vienna
Winner of the Hans Koller Prize 2006
( Talent of the Year!)

Diknu Schneeberger is an exceptional talent, a rising star in guitar heaven. This very young musician has this typical virtuosity and rhythmic precision of the Gipsy Jazz in his playing, and a distinctive feeling for melody and sound.
In February of the year 2004 he was starting to have rhythm guitar lessons with Striglo Stöger, in June of the same year he already had the first public performance and October he was making the first recordings for a CD with the Joschi Schneeberger Quintet.
From 2005 Diknu attended classes with the well-known Vienna Jazz guitarist Martin Spitzer. Soon they developed a tight friendship and found they both had the dream of playing music with the esprit of Django Reinhardts.
2006 they founded the Diknu Schneeberger Trio with Diknuâs father Joschi Schneeberger on bass!
The trio plays rapid Gipsy Swing, carefully arranged standards, interesting originals and Django's finest compositions, but also those of his follower like Stochelo Rosenberg or Bireli Lagrene, who enriched the Gipsy Jazz with some modern elements.

Some interesting catchlines from a recent interview with the artist:
...school never interested him, just did what was needed
...wanted to be a tiler
....plays the guitar just since 2004, after having a short try 6 years before
...got lessons of his uncle
...practises at least 2-3 hours a day
...just wants to play, doesn´t compose till now
...have to learn to read music on the conservatory now, but doesn´t need it
...plays a 3,5mm pick
...plays the âGypsy strokeâ, which just a few players do master
...he's a Sinti, who usally approach Gypsymusic more traditionally, and he does it so
..has his roots in a musical family, and he has great support from them
...till now has most of his inspiration from nowadays players, not of the old masters.

Line-up of the Trio:

Diknu Schneeberger guit.
Martin Spitzer guit.
Joschi Schneeberger b.

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