This gypsy guitarist lost the use of two fingers on his left hand, but still had some of the best jazz hands around
It was this new method centered around his deformed hand that in part ... the trip 
to America was that he had left France playing swing, but returned ... Atkins, who 
placed Reinhardt #1 on a list of the ten greatest guitarists of the... [DOC] [TLE] Gypsy Swing as a Medium for Virtuosic Gestures | Ethnomusicology ... [PAR] This argument is illustrated by virtuosic gestures in the genre of gypsy swing, a 
style .... of bebop, his legacy still lives on not only in France but all