| ABC |
Django Reinhardt et son Grand Orchestre (Fud Candrix et son Orchestre) |
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Maurice Giegas, Janot Morales, Lucien Devroye (tp); Nick Frérar, Louis Melon (tb) Bobby Naret, Guy Plum (cl & as);
Benny Pauwels (fl, cl & ts); Fud Candrix (cl & ts); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Eugène Vées (g);
Emmanuel Soudieux (b); Pierre Fouad (dm)
1943 March 12 - Swing, Paris |
| A Little Love, A Little Kiss |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Pierre “Baro” Ferret, Marcel Bianchi (g); Louis Vola (b)
1937 April 26 - Columbia, Paris |
| A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody |
André Ekyan (as solo) |
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acc. by Django Reinhardt (g solo); Pierre “Baro” Ferret (g); Emmanuel Soudieux(b)
1940 February 22 - Swing, Paris |
| A-Tisket A-Tasket |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France |
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André Ekyan (as, bcl, cl); Raph Schécroun (p); Django Reinhardt (el-g); Alphonse "Alf" Masselier (b); Roger Paraboschi (dm)
1950 April-Mai - RAI Studios, Rome |
| After You’ve Gone |
Django Reinhardt (g solo) - acc. by Joseph Reinhardt (g); Juan Fernandez (b) |
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1934 August - Private, Paris |
| After You’ve Gone |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre “Baro” Ferret (g);
Lucien Simoens (b); Freddy Taylor (vo)
After its initial recordings on Ultraphone and Decca, the QHCF moved to the HMV label.
"After You've Gone" was recorded on their first session for the label and there seems to have been some growing pains.
The balance is not as good as on the other labels, with especially weak recording of the bass.
The opening chorus is by Grappelli this time around and he is immediately followed by the Louis Armstrong-inspired singing of Freddie Taylor.
It seems that everyone is holding back in these opening choruses, and sure enough, as soon as Taylor is finished,
the intensity goes up as Django goes into a finger-busting chorus filled with fast arpeggios and runs,
and concluding with a chorded intro to Grappelli.
The violinist takes charge, building the intensity with every chorus.
The breaks, built into the tune at the end of each 16-bar section, seem to have little effect on Taylor,
but each time Reinhardt and Grappelli hit them, they add to the growing excitement of the recording.
1936 May 4 - Gramophone, Paris |
| After You’ve Gone |
Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli |
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Stéphane Grappelli (vln); Django Reinhardt (g); Gianni Safred (p); Carlo Pecori (b); Aurelio de Carolis (dm)
1949 January-February - RAI Studios, Rome
The start of World War II broke up the popular Quintette du Hot Club de France, then touring England,
with Stephane Grappelli remaining in London for the duration of the conflict, while Django Reinhardt
returned to France. Beginning in 1946, the two reunited periodically up until their last recordings in Italy
in 1949. As one hears on this track from those final sessions, their playing by then had taken on a new
level of assuredness and virtuosity, no doubt indirectly influenced by the innovations of bebop.
Except for the pianist's brief intro, the Italian rhythm section goes almost unnoticed.
It is the astonishing, swiftly executed solos of both leaders, as well as Django's almost manic rhythm
guitar support for Stephane, that nearly overwhelm the listener. It would be another 20 years before
Grappelli's popularity began to accelerate, and it continued to do so for almost another 30 years after
that. Django, alas, would drift through the next, and last, four frustrating years of his life.
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Ah! La Béguine |
Jean Sablon (vo) |
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acc. par l’Orchestre du Théâtre Daunou (direction by Jef de Murel): Faustin JeanJean (tp); Léon Ferreri (tp, tb & v); Roger JeanJean (as,cl); poss. Paul JeanJean (ts,cl); Russell Goudey (as,bars); Michel Warlob (vln);
Michel Emer (p,arr); Django Reinhardt (g); poss. Henri Bruno (b); Max Elloy (dm)
1933 March 14 - Paris |
| Ainsi Soit-Il |
Nane Cholet (vo) |
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acc. by Stéphane Grappelli (v); Emil Stern (p); Django Reinhardt (g); Jean Tranchant (vo)
1935 September - Paris |
| Ainsi Soit-Il |
Nane Cholet (vo) - acc. by Stéphane Grappelli et son Ensemble “Hot and Sweet”: |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v & p); Django Reinhardt (g); Joseph Reinhardt (g); Louis Vola (b)
1936 November 12 - Paris |
| Ain’t Misbehavin' |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelli |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Pierre “Baro” Ferret, Marcel Bianchi (g); Louis Vola (b)
1937 April 22 - Columbia, Paris
Grappelli states the melody with the effervescence and light hearted swing that are his trademarks.
Django starts his solo sluggishly here, and in the second eight bars either misses the chord or is trying for an unusual polytonal effect.
But in the second chorus he takes flight, and dishes out choice phrases that build on very large interval jumps.
Then come some wild and woolly guitar chords that sound -I kid you not - like a steam locomotive heading down the track.
The band is so far out of the stratosphere by this point that they don't even reprise the melody.
Forget the title some serious misbehavin' is goin' down here.
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| Alabamy Bound |
Stéphane Grappelli (v solo) - acc. by Django Reinhardt (g) |
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1937 April 27 - Paris |
| All Of Me |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France |
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Hubert Rostaing (cl); Alix Combelle (cl, ts & chimes); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt (g); Tony Rovira (b); Pierre Fouad (dm)
1940 December 17 - Swing, Paris |
