Mondine Garcia (1936 – 29 December 2010)Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz - Michael Dregni, Alain Antonietto, Anne Legrand was a French guitarist from Paris who specialized in gypsy jazz.

Career

The father of guitarist Ninine Garcia, Mondine Garcia had a long, highly respected career in France as a notable part of the second generation of gypsy guitarists after Django Reinhardt. He often performed at the same venues and festivals alongside such contemporaries as Moreno Winterstein,

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and Marcel Campion, and is succeeded by such "third generation" players as Angelo Debarre. His regular venue was La Chope des puces at Porte de Clignancourt on rue Des Rosiers, Saint-Ouen. One of his last festival appearances was at the Festival Jazz Muzette. Garcia played for decades on a Favino guitar, fitted with a Stimer S.51 held on by

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, the string action "adjusted" by a folded wad of paper beneath the bridge.

Discography

*''Les Enfants de Django'' – (1993) *''Les Manouches de Saint Ouen'' – avec Ninine Garcia (2007)

Film appearances

*''Les enfants de Django'' (1993)

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* * 1936 births 2010 deaths Continental jazz guitarists French jazz guitarists French male guitarists French Romani people Romani guitarists Gypsy jazz guitarists Swing guitarists 20th-century French musicians 20th-century guitarists 20th-century French male musicians French male jazz musicians {{France-musician-stub