Music critics saw in the only 9-year-old Jimmy Rosenberg the successor of guitar legend Django Reinhardt
Jimmy Rosenberg
Since he made his television debut as a 9-year-old in a British documentary about gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt, guitarist Jimmy Rosenberg from Helmond has been named as his successor. For a while the pressure was too much for him, but Jimmy is back with his own trio. Saturday 20 May it’s gypsy jazz that hits the clock in De Kleine Willem.
After his TV debut, child prodigy Jimmy (also as a member of the Gypsy Kids) performed all over Europe. From the Concertgebouw to the Django Reinhardt festival in Norway and France, a million-dollar contract with Sony in America, a career every musician dreams of. On stage with Stéphane Grappelli, James Brown, Les Paul, Willy Nelson, Eric Clapton and Stochelo Rosenberg (his cousin, equally virtuoso) and many others.
But in 2004, Rosenberg became increasingly lost. Years followed in which music no longer always predominated. After years of silence, however, he picked up the guitar again. In 2022 he was promptly booked at the Jazz Festival in Milan and he also returned to the stage at Samois-sur-Seine, the famous Django Reinhardt festival in France, in the summer of that year.
Meanwhile, new records are in the pipeline (with his trio, with Faifie Reinhardt on rhythm guitar and Fremdo Rosenberg on bass) and there is a real Jimmy Rosenberg Academy, with which he tries to pass on his love for music. In short, Rosenberg is back where he belongs. And every music lover can only be happy about that.
About Jimmy Rosenberg is the award winning documentary Jimmy Rosenberg, The Father, the Son & the Talent made by Jeroen Berkvens.