The Best Guitarist in The World: # 9 – Django Reinhardt

He died right around the time my mother was born – and I read all about him in a guitar magazine when I was 13. He was my hero. I bought tapes and listened to anything I could find – it was Django Reinhardt in between Beastie Boys and Deep Purple and Dire Straits and Public Enemy and whatever else.

I was starting to get into some jazz – I grew up with th…