Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
The New Hot Club of America
9/28/2015 | 55m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
This group features some of the top gypsy jazz artists in North America.
Modeled after the original instrumentation of The Hot Club of France, this group features some of the top gypsy jazz artists in North America. They perform music composed by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
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Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival is a local public television program presented by KVCR
Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival
The New Hot Club of America
9/28/2015 | 55m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Modeled after the original instrumentation of The Hot Club of France, this group features some of the top gypsy jazz artists in North America. They perform music composed by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
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[audience applauds] Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, please give a great Redlands welcome to the New Hot Club Of America!
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (reeds) ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ [audience applauds] Gonzalo: So, I started playing guitar when I was 11 years old.
And, it was rock-n-roll, blues, American blues that really got me into this style and into playing guitar.
But, I was always very obsessed with the instrument.
I found that in blues and in rock, I wasn't able to explore the instrument as much as I wanted.
So eventually, I fell into jazz and more specifically into this gypsy jazz which ends up being jazz, in a way.
But, it's acoustic music.
So, it's a thing that I always related to classical music.
The fact that there's no amplification, no cables.
It's just you and your instrument making the best sound you can do.
So everything that I've studied and that I worked on and that I liked in my process of learning the instrument, brought me to this one thing which is improvised acoustic jazz!
♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ ♪ (violin) ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] Gonzalo: I was born in Argentina.
I grew up in Argentina.
I came to America when I was 19 years old.
I lived here 13 years and I went back to Argentina.
I missed my culture.
And yes, pretty much everybody in my family plays an instrument.
Me and my brother are sort of the first people that pursued it in a more professional way.
But my dad, even...my dad remarried.
My mom remarried.
Everybody, they remarried.
Played instruments.
Their kids played instruments.
So, music's been around me from the beginning!
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (soft guitar) ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ (soft guitar) ♪ ♪ (softer music) ♪ [audience applauds/cheers] ♪ ♪ All: Hey!
♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ ♪ (soft bass) ♪ ♪ Leah (sings): Blue skies smilin' at me.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but blue skies all I see.
♪ ♪ Bluebirds singin' their song.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but bluebirds all day long.
♪ ♪ Well, I've never seen the sun shining so bright.
♪ ♪ Never saw things going so right.
♪ ♪ Noticing the days hurrying by.
♪ ♪ When you're in love, my how they fly.
♪ ♪ Those blue days, all of them gone.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but blue skies from now on.
♪ ♪ ♪ Leah (sings): Blue skies smilin' at me.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but blue skies all I see.
♪ ♪ Well, bluebirds singin' their song.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but blue skies from now on.
♪ ♪ Well, I have never seen the sun shinin' so bright.
♪ ♪ Never saw things goin' so right.
♪ ♪ Noticing the days hurrying by.
♪ ♪ When you're in love, my how they fly.
♪ ♪ Those blue days, all of them gone.
♪ ♪ Nothin' but blue skies, blue skies, ♪ ♪ blue skies from now on.
♪ ♪ [audience applauds] Gonzalo: We're just having a good time playing this music.
We still keep the Gonzalo Bergara quartet going and we mix it a little bit.
So, we still play a little bit of our own music but...if I had to say something?
You know, we work every day just to play better!
It's jazz.
You've got to invest a lot of your time to get better in this style.
To make it better.
To represent it in a better way.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] Gonzalo: Sort of made a mistake.
Cover it up there!
[laughter] ♪ ♪ ♪ [reeds] ♪ [audience applauds] Gonzalo: We are told we are going to bring everybody out here right now.
[audience applauds] Thank you!
It's been an honor and such a privilege to play for you guys.
This is Paul.
This Leah.
This is Max.
This is Brian.
Oops, sorry!
I haven't introduced him.
Oh, I did!
This is Brian Netzley.
Again, just in case!
This is Jeff.
This is Rob.
Thank you, Redlands.
Thank you, everybody involved.
♪ >> One-two, One-two-three!
♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ [audience applauds] >> Wooo!
♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ ♪ [audience applauds] ♪ [audience shouts] ♪ [audience applauds/cheers] [audience applauds/cheers] [audience applauds/whistles] VO: This program from the Annual Summer Music Festival at the Redlands Bowl is made possible by support from these Inland Empire civic-minded organizations concerned with the cultural life of our communities.
[audience applauds/cheers] VO: The citizens of the Inland Empire that patronize the bowl and viewers like you supporting local public television in the Inland Empire.
Thank you!
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