Django Reinhardt
Track Listing
Disc 1: Solo
- Improvisation No. 1
- Perfum
- Tea For Two
- Improvisation No. 2 (Master)
- Improvisation No. 2 (Alternate Take)
- Echoes Of Spain
- Naguine
- Improvisation No. 3 Part 1
- Improvisation No. 3 Part 2
- Improvisation No. 6
- Improvisation No. 7 (Take No. 2)
- Improvisation 47 (Improvisation No. 5)
- Improvisation No. 4
- Belleville
- Nuages
- Two Improvised Guitar Chorales
- I'll See You In My Dreams
- Django Reinhardt Interview
Disc 2: Duets
- You, Rascal You (with Louis Vola)
- Somebody Loves Me (with Eddie South)
- Eddie's Blues (with Eddie South)
- Distraction (with Ivon De Bie)
- Studio 24 (with Ivon De Bie)
- Vous Et Moi (with Ivon De Bie)
- Blues En Mineur (with Ivon De Bie)
- Bill Coleman Blues (with Bill Coleman)
- Swingtime In Springtime (with Hubert Rostaing)
- Blues Riff (with Duke Ellington)
- To Each His Own / Symphonie (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Manoir De Mes Reves (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Alabamy Bound (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Daphne (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Danse Nuptiale (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Crazy Rhythm (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Night And Day (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Minor Blues (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Nagasaki (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Swing 39 (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Just A Gigolo (with Stéphane Grappelli)
- Troublant Bolero (with Stéphane Grappelli)
Django Reinhardt, is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant. Reinhardt, who was of Roma (Gypsy) parentage, traveled through France and Belgium as a boy and young man learning to play the violin, guitar, and banjo. The loss of the use of two fingers of his left hand after a caravan fire in 1928 did not impair his remarkable aptitude for the guitar. In 1934 he became co-leader, with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, a group whose many records are greatly prized by connoisseurs. Perhaps his most lasting influence on jazz was the introduction of solos based on melodic improvisation, at a time when guitarists generally played chorded solos. His inimitable improvisations, particularly those in slow tempos, were often a curious but beguiling blend of Roma and jazz sounds. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including Minor Swing, Daphne, Belleville, Djangology, Swing '42, and Nuages. Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola claims that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influenced by Reinhardt.
Product Details
- Label: Sunset Blvd Records
- Catalog #: CD-SBR-7943
- Release Date: 2019
- Packaging: 2CD Digipak
