Jimmy Rosenberg is a talented Dutch guitarist from a
Sinti/Roma background, who achieved international recognition while barely in
his teens. There is a wonderfully warm and affectionate tribute by Jon Larsen on facebook, which could hardly be bettered.
Jon includes a link to a wonderful musical archive, which will interest
jazz guitar buffs.
For my part, I found the youtube video of Jimmy at his first jazz festival, aged 12, very moving.
The next youtube clip shows a more mature musician, but he
still can’t have been very old when it was filmed. Clearly an astonishingly virtuoso performer.
I would like to join Jon Larsen in his hope, which he expresses like this:
"For more than a decade we were like brothers in arms, but now I can only hope for a miracle – that one day my little brother will return to planet Earth and continue his magic."
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