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Django Reinhardt: Minor Swing (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

What am I going to say to criticize this record? Would I complain about the 1937 technology’s failure to adequately c...

Django Reinhardt: Djangology (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

The first Continentals to play le jazz Américain on a par with Yanks, Le Quintette du Hot Club de France was inspired...

Django Reinhardt: Dinah (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 09, 07

A concert on the 2nd December 1934 at the Ecole Normale de Musique marked the definitive arrival of the Quintette du ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EUROPEAN JAZZ

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Django Reinhardt: Body and Soul – as heard in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 18, 07

In Paris during the 1930s, jazz was all the rage. But when a homegrown quintet of 3 guitars, violin and bass appeared...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE JAZZ SIDE OF WOODY ALLEN

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Minor Swing (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

"Minor Swing" may be the most popular record Django Reinhardt ever made. Tom Lord's online discography lists it as be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Shine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

Django Reinhardt’s solo on “Shine” was one of his finest to that point in his career. In it, he forms a direct link t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Stephane Grappelli & His Hot Four: St. Louis Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

Grappelli might have been the leader on this date, but Django is the soloist for all but the last minute of this reco...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Oh, Lady Be Good (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

From the very first session of the QHCF, “Oh, Lady Be Good” shows the group still getting its bearings. The swing rhy...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: After You've Gone (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 09

After its initial recordings on Ultraphone and Decca, the QHCF moved to the HMV label. “After You’ve Gone” was record...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Limehouse Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

The Quintet of the Hot Club of France played a lot of songs about places they had never visited ("Chicago", "Charlest...

Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt: Ultrafox (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 08

Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt met in 1931, but did not play together until 1933, at which time the idea for...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI

 Stéphane Grappelli, by Jos L. Knaepen Below are twelve essential tracks drawn from the long and i...

Django Reinhardt: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

Grappelli states the melody with the effervescence and lighthearted swing that are his trademarks. Django starts his...

Quintette du Hot Club de France: Tea For Two (take 2) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

“Tea For Two” must have been one of Django Reinhardt’s favorite songs at this period, as he recorded it five times be...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: EARLY DJANGO

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Reinhardt, Django (Jean-Baptiste) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09

One of the founding fathers of jazz guitar, Django Reinhardt may have been the first European to rival, then surpass,...

Pass, Joe (Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua) posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Joe Pass expanded the guitar's possibilities in jazz with his fast, saxophone-like lines and graceful melodic sensibi...

Cinderella, Joe (Joseph) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cinderella, Joe (Joseph), guitar; 14 June, 1929, Newark, NJ. His musician father was in the music publishing busines...

Grappelli, Stéphane posted in Encyclopedia February 18, 09

Stéphane Grappelli modernized the sound of the violin with his balance between gentle lyricism and active swing. Co...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

Burrell, Kenny (Kenneth Earl) posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09

Guitarist Kenny Burrell's blues-based tone is often cool and characteristically swinging. With saxophonist Stanley T...

Ellis, Herb (Mitchel Herbert) posted in Encyclopedia March 19, 09

Herb Ellis's quick-picking right hand, fleet fingers and metronomic hard swing established him as a master of the mod...

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