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Django Reinhardt - 2003 - Retrospective 1934-1953

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Django Reinhardt


Django Reinhardt in 1946

Wikipedia:
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a Belgian-born French guitarist and composer of Romani ethnicity. Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players of all time; he was the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the guitar genre. After his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed when he suffered burns in a fire, Reinhardt used only the index and middle finger of his left hand on his solos. He created an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar), which has since become a living musical tradition within French Gypsy culture. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt co-founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France, described by critic Thom Jurek as "one of the most original bands in the history of recorded jazz". Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become jazz standards, including "Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages".


Retrospective 1934-1953 (3CD Box)



Artist: Django Reinhardt
Title: Retrospective 1934-1953
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Label: Saga
Catalog: 038 161-2
Genre: Jazz, Guitar Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Swing
Duration: 3CD (02:55:00)

amazon.com review by Alan J. Wood:
Here we have Django beautifully packaged boxed set of three cds together with a well researched booklet (in French and English) giving details of the tracks and containing many photographs of Django playing a number of different guitars or in the company of musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Much of the music moves away from the 'Gypsy Jazz with violin' formula and enters areas which Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian explored. This is a wonderful survey of Django's pre and post war work and is a 'must have' item for those who love Django and guitar jazz.

allaboutjazz.com:
The Belgian-born gypsy Django Reinhardt, a founding father of modern jazz guitar, is possibly Europe's greatest music export, being amongst the first non-American musicians to conversely influence jazz in the States.
This 3-disc retrospective spreads his career into three distinct periods, from '34 to only months before he died of a stroke in '53. After discovering the music of guitarist Eddie Lang, Django had found inspiration for his renowned single-note runs. His classical-influenced playing ventured from Bach and Debussy, in the form of unaccompanied solo guitar performances ("Improvisation no.2"), to a composition he created as a theme for a never-completed symphony ("Manoir de mes rêves"). He gives Grieg's "Danse norvégienne" a jazzed-up adaptation, he plays his arrangement of a Debussy theme, "Django's Dream (Rêverie)," on amplified guitar. Perhaps even his love for classical music is the reason for hearing the original banjo-guitarist playing violin ("Blues en mineur"), too.
Backed by his own big band, "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" was recorded months after the birth of his second son, Babik. The incredibly rhythmic clarinet of Hubert Rostaing cooks through the up-tempo rendition of "Just One of Those Things," while his more lyrical side manifests itself elsewhere ("Song d'automne"). From 1949, an interesting rather new element of piano is introduced. Gianni Safred is featured on six tracks, prominently so on "Bricktop." From the beginning of Django's experimentation and usage of amplification, it is his sustained, repeated, and bent notes and runs ("Topsy") which make one wonder the influence he had on Charlie Christian and vice versa.
This set collects some of the finest amplified guitar ever recorded, and the fantastic photographs interspersed throughout the 78-page booklet (some shots never seen before) are quite revealing, such as Django with Dizzy Gillespie from 1951. The guitarist's respect for bebop is heard through his pre-bop rhythmic playing inventions. The addition of a bop-inspired environment on several tracks has Frenchmen Pierre Michelot (bass) and the Fol brothers, Hubert (alto) and Ray (piano). The former Fol adds a lyrical beauty to the fore of the brushed ballad "Anouman," one of the few times Django was upstaged other than by Grappelli—but dig Django with his just as breathtaking solo, in particular his entry. His subsequent fills, not to mention coda, sound as if he felt the pressure in not being outdone right up until the final note.
Django died only two months after the final selections in this set, including a request ("Brazil") by Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) impresario Norman Granz. The guitarist tragically passed away just before becoming a part of Granz' JATP. Appropriately from that same final session is the second heart-wrenching rendition of Django's "Nuages," which closes out this must-have set, a solid contender for the best reissue/box set of the year.




CD1 Retrospective 1934-40:

01 Dinah - 2:39
02 Sweet Sue - 2:57
03 Blue Drag - 2:53
04 Limehouse Blues - 2:48
05 Charleston - 2:54
06 The Sheik Of Araby - 3:07
07 St Louis Blues - 2:47
08 Minor Swing - 3:17
09 My Serenade - 3:04
10 Night And Day - 2:42
11 Sweet Georgia Brown - 3:08
12 Honeysuckle Rose - 2:54
13 Black And White - 3:05
14 Appel Indirect (Appel Direct) - 2:58
15 Improvisation No 2 - 2:41
16 Swing 39 - 3:19
17 I'll See You In My Dreams - 2:34
18 HCQ Strut - 2:56
19 Rythme Futur - 2:40


CD2 Retrospective 1940-47:

01 Les Yeux Noirs - 2:17
02 All Of Me - 2:48
03 Swing 42 - 2:48
04 Blues En Mineur - 2:50
05 Douce Ambiance - 2:21
06 Manoir De Mes Rêves - 3:18
07 Blues Clair - 3:06
08 I Can't Give You Anything But Love - 2:24
09 Echos De France (La Marseeillaise) - 2:47
10 Embraceable You - 3:14
11 Django's Tiger - 2:39
12 Melodie Au Crepuscule - 3:12
13 Nuages (Take 2) - 3:19
14 How High The Moon - 2:34
15 Just One Of Those Things - 2:52
16 Songe D'Automne - 3:01
17 Vette - 3:15
18 Danse Norvegienne - 3:02
19 Django's Dream (Rêverie) - 3:50


CD3 Retrospective 1947-53:

01 Topsy - 3:06
02 Dinette - 3:02
03 Belleville - 2:36
04 Si Tu Savais - 2:41
05 Ol' Man River - 2:36
06 Tears - 3:43
07 Tiger Rag - 2:55
08 Minor Swing - 2:36
09 La Mer - 4:28
10 Bricktop - 3:44
11 Ou Es-Tu Mon Amour? (Where Are You My Love?) - 3:20
12 Daphne - 2:27
13 Djangology - 2:48
14 Place De Brouckere - 3:15
15 Nuits De Saint-Germain-Des-Pres - 3:06
16 Troublant Bolero - 3:31
17 Anouman - 2:45
18 Brazil - 2:26
19 (I'm) Confessin' (That I Love You) - 3:38
20 Nuages - 3:16


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