Description
DESCRIPTION
This box collects most of the broadcast and concert recordings Django Reinhardt made in his last eight years, except the Rome sessions, available on JSP919. Reunions with Stephane Grappelli alternate with tryouts on the electric guitar and bebop. The post-war Django has lost none of his touch - the 1946 Duke Ellington concert was, on the evidence here, of a high standard. Django also emerges as a composer of stature, with a string of contemplative masterpieces. From the moment the Americans entered Paris during WW2, he was sought out. Visiting stars vied to play with him. He broadcast and recorded with the Air Transport Command big band - much of one disc is made up of radio transcripts with them. After the euphoria of the Liberation, however, work for Django was intermittent. One theme, though, was constant - a fortune awaited him in the US. He agreed to visit the US with Duke Ellington. Django just caught the last available US-bound boat with no baggage, no guitar. He believed that American guitar makers would compete to supply him with an instrument. They didn't. Eve so, everywhere the band went he was greeted as a hero. That can be detected in these live recordings. Django has got hold of an electric guitar, and is as skilful on it as he ever was. Ellington fields little more than a rhythm section - no more needed when the Frenchman is flying like this. When America tired of him, he took a ship back to France. Django quickly settled back into Parisian life. The material here sees him several times reunited with Grapelli and performing with a variety of European musicians. By 1953, engagements were again sporadic. Django was unwilling to perform for less than he thought he was worth. He had been raised to survive on next to nothing, so idleness was not the hardship that many would have found it. A somewhat raucous Tony Proteau session isn't a bad place to leave him. He was in his element with decent musicians and an appreciative audience.
Afn Title Sequence
Djangology
Honeysuckle Rose
Belleville
Uptown Blues
Moten Swing
Afn Closing Sequence
Belleville
Moten Swing
Don't Be That Way
Improvisation No. 6
Honeysuckle Rose
Uptown Blues
Djangology
Are You in the Mood?
Apple Honey
Ride Red Ride
Blues Riff
Improvisation No. 5
Honeysuckle Rose
Swing Guitars
Babik
Blues en Mineur
This Kind of Friend
Nuages
Viper's Dream
Blues Clair
Minor Swing
Swing 41
Swing 39
Del Salle
Les Yeux Noirs
Louise
Reverie
Swingtime in Springtime
Stockholm
Feerie
Vendredi 13
Sweet Chorus
Crepescule
Songe D'automne
I Love You for Sentimental Reasons
Just One of Those Things
Billets Doux
Porto Cabello
Swing Dynamique
Lover Man
Rythm Futur
Artillerie Lourde
Peche a la Mouche
Belleville
Souce Ambiance
Swing de Paris
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
It Had to Be You
September Song
Manoir de Mes Reves
Melodie Au Crepescule
Dinette
Folie a Amphion
Place de Brouckere
Symphonie
Improvisation Sur la Danse Norwegienne
St Louis Blues
Ol' Man River
R-Vingt-Six
How High the Moon
Swing Guitars
I Love You
Tiger Rag
Tears
Dinah
Them There Eyes
Daphne
How High the Moon
Manoir de Mes Reves
Danse Nuptiale
Crazy Rhythm
Improvisation No. 5
Moppin' the Bride
Troublant Bolero
Cadillac Slim
Nuages
Improvisation Sur Un Theme Mineur
Improvisation Sur Une Danse Norwegienne
Festival 48
Minor Swing
Symphonie
Troublant Bolero
Lover
Nuages
Impromptu
Margie
Diminushing Blackness
Dream of You
Manoir de Mes Reves
Jumpin' with Symphony Sid
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Yesterdays
Lover
Blues
Time After Time
Blues
Jam Session (Fine and Dandy)
