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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

          Django Reinhardt, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

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...

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: When Day Is Done (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

Django Reinhardt opens this version of “When Day Is Done” with a dramatic unaccompanied guitar cadenza. I suspect he ...

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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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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...

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Hot Lips (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 28, 09

“Hot Lips” must have seemed a strange choice for the QHCF. Although the song was only 15 years old at the time, it wa...

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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...

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Quintette du Hot Club de France: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

In a way, this 1938 version of “Honeysuckle Rose” is a throwback to the earliest recordings of the QHCF. It is set in...

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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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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...

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,...

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...

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