Django Reinhardt - Djangology
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Artist: Django ReinhardtEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- I Saw Stars
- After You've Gone
- Heavy Artillery (Artillerie Lourde)
- Beyond The Sea (La Mer)
- Minor Swing
- Menilmontant
- Brick Top
- Swing Guitars
- All The Things You Are
- Daphne
- (It's Only A) Paper Moon
- Improvisation On Tchaikovsky's Pathetique (Andante)
- The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
- Djangology
- Ou Es-tu, Mon Amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)
- Marie
- I Surrender, Dear
- Hallelujah
- Swing
- I'll Never Be The Same
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
- I Got Rhythm
Free Music Notes for Djangology
Free Music Review: Great music...but only decent CD
Hit: 4 Stars
First off, this music is great. Reinhardt's reunion with Stephane Grappelly is a worthy addition to his library. While not quite as good to these ears as his mid/late 30's recordings, they're still pretty good.
My only problem is with the sound quality of the CD itself. I'm assuming it's probably just the original source material, though it could be a mastering issue. The sound, while good for the most part, does seem a bit distorted in portions. It's sometimes scratchy, and you can hear instruments bloom and distort from time to time, moreso on the high & loud notes. I have many recordings from this era, and they typically sound better than this. This WAS recorded in Italy, and i'm not aware of what the Italian studios were like in the late 40s. Perhaps they didn't have quite the sound capability that American studios had at the time. Perhaps the originals were not stored well in Italy. I don't know.
It's not a bad enough problem to make me not want to listen to it, but it is unfortunate that i have some Benny Goodman Trio recordings from 10 years earlier that sound cleaner than this. I never buy bootleg recordings...only the ones released by the owning companies, who utilize original source materials. That having been said, i'm a bit disappointed. While i would still recommend this CD, i would also recommend some of the earlier Reinhardt stuff, especially from the late 30s. The sound quality on those is at least as good as the stuff on this 1949 disc.
Djangology Poster
In 1949, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli reunited for a brief tour of Italy. While they were there they recorded about 50 tunes with an Italian rhythm section, and although they didn't know it at the time, these sessions marked the last time the Gypsy guitarist and the French violinist recorded together. This CD collects 23 of the best tracks from those final sessions, including versions of Hot Club standards like "Minor Swing," "Bricktop," and "Swing 42." Reinhardt and Grappelli don't try to recreate the raucous swing of their earlier collaborations, opting instead for an intriguing blend of romantic, almost classical melodic soloing and bebop-tinged harmonies and rhythms. The attempt doesn't always succeed, primarily because the three musicians on drums, bass, and piano are clearly out of their depth. But when the two masters click, as they do on "I Got Rhythm," they demonstrate an eagerness to explore the new musical possibilities offered by postwar jazz. Sadly Reinhardt died not long after he returned from Italy, so he and Grappelli were never able to continue their musical exploration, leaving the music on Djangology as a final farewell to one of the great partnerships in jazz. --Michael SimmonsJazz Music CDs
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