From
Jerry Jazz Musician, "a website devoted to jazz

and American civilization," comes this 2005 interview with
Michael Dregni, author of
Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend, a book about
French jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, who was "born in a gypsy caravan at a crossroads in Belgium...[and] almost killed in a freak fire that burned half of his body and left his left hand twisted into a claw."
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