Dotschy Reinhardt

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Dotschy Reinhardt is singer-songwriter from Southern Germany making Jazz / Lounge / Latin inspired music. Sounds Gypsy sexy with Bossa and Folk influences. Reinhardt – a name that enjoys a very distinctive sound within the international music scene. There’s blessing in it, and a little bit of curse as well. How will a young woman be able to break free from this big family name and the big patron Django without rebelling against his legacy? Dotschy herself says her childhood and adolescence were a stroke of luck. She grew up near Ravensburg in Southern Germany and had the chance to listen to the music of her relatives from a very young age on as the most natural thing in the world. There’s music all around, the “typical” gipsy swing repertoire, always closely linked to jazz standards, mixing with influences from the Great American Songbook and Frank SInatra, the vocabulary of people like Joe Zawinul and Alan Holdsworth, mingling with Brazilian sounds by Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Ivan Lins. One of her uncles is guitar player Bobby Falta, long time companion of Schnuckenack Reinhardt in his quintet and musical partner of Joe Pass and Chuck Loeb. The dynamic Zipflo Reinhardt counts among her cousins. Dotschy carries her education as an autodidact - and in jazz she discovers a counterpart to her love of freedom, dedicates herself to the guitar and especially to her voice. Eventually she leaves the idyll of her parent’s home: “I’ve become an adult in Berlin”, she reflects. “Coming

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albums

Sprinkled Eyes

Suni

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Le Coffret Jazz Manouche

Chaplin's Secret

Pani Sindhu

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Django's Spirit A Tribute to Django Reinhardt (compiled by Susie Reinhardt)

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Swing for Private

DJango's Spirit

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Django's Spirit. A Tribute to Django Reinhardt (compiled by Susie Reinhardt)

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Django's Spirit-A Tribute to Django Reinhardt

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IDEE Ensemble

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Wave Music En Route #01

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