| Liebesfreud |
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 13 - Swing Paris |
| Liebestraum #3 |
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 |
| Lily Belle May June |
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France |
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Stephane Grappelly (v), Django Reinhardt (g), Roger Chaput, Joseph Reinhardt (g), Louis Vola (b),
Jerry Mengo (vo).
1935 March 31 - Paris |
| Limehouse Blues |
Stéphane Grappelli and his Hot Four |
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Grappelly (v), Django & Joseph Reinhardt (g), Pierre Ferret (g), Louis Vola (b)
The Quintet of the Hot Club of France played a lot of songs about places they had never visited ("Chicago", "Charleston", etc.), but "Limehouse Blues" was about London and presumably all of the
members had been there and knew that neighborhood. The Quintet recorded "Limehouse" twice in just under 8 months and the differences between them are quite
astonishing.
The first version was made for Decca in October 1935 and it moves along at a staid medium tempo and the solos are well-played but not too exciting. Something must have happened in the 8
months before the Quintet recorded the song again for HMV, for this time the tempo is considerably faster and the feeling is much rougher. Django's guitar murmurs a few dissenting thoughts during the
relatively calm first chorus, but as the solos approach, Django and Stephane seem to momentarily fight over who will get the first solo. Stephane plays the solo while Django pushes the intensity with the
guitars. Stephane seems hemmed in by the simple chord sequence and his phrases, while of varied length, seem to all sound the same. Django has no such problem with the chords and he fires off
a brilliant solo, using octaves and chorded passages to set off his ideas. As the solo progresses, his technique seems less polished as his octaves have a rough edge to them. In the ensemble chorus that
follows, Django fills with reckless abandon. When Stephane takes back the solo spotlight, he's found his inspiration again, and in the course of his solo, he presages the descending ensemble part recorded by
the Benny Goodman Quartet on "Avalon" in the following year. Was Benny listening to the Hot Club records in his off-hours?
1935 October 11 - Paris |
| Limehouse Blues |
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)
1936 May 4 - Gramophone, Paris |
| Limehouse Blues |
Stéphane Grappelli and his Hot Four |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt, Gusti (g); Louis Vola (b)
1937 June 12 - C.B.S. “Saturday Night Swing Club” Broadcast, “The Big Apple”, Paris (2nd Cut) |
| Limehouse Blues |
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, Eugène Vées (g); Roger Grasset (b)
1938 June 30 - "La Nuit du Jazz,” Moulin de la Galette, Paris |
| Limehouse Blues |
Django's Music |
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Philippe Brun, Pierre Allier, Alex Renard, Al Piguillem (tp); Guy Paquinet, Gaston Moat, Pierre Deck (tb);
André Ekyan (as); Alix Combelle (bs); Charlie Lewis (p); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Pierre “Baro” Ferret (g); Emmanuel Soudieux (b)
1940 March 22 - Paris |
| Liza |
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 |
| Liza (All The Clouds’ll Roll Away) |
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli |
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Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Jack Llewellyn, Allan Hodgkiss (g); Coleridge Goode (b)
1946 February 1 - Decca, London |
| Louise |
Django Reinhardt (g solo) - acc. by Stéphane Grapelli (p) - 1938 September 10 - London |
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| Louise |
Souvenirs de Django Reinhardt |
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Hubert Rostaing (cl); Django Reinardt (g solo); Eugène Vées (g); Emmanuel Soudieux (b); André Jourdan (dm)
1947 September 22 or 07 - Radiodiffusion-Television Française, Paris |
| Lover |
Django Reinhardt et l'Orchestre d'Hubert Paul au Club Saint-Germain |
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Bernard Hullin (tp); Hubert Fol (as); Raymond Fol (p); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Pierre Michelot (b);
Pierre Lemarchand (dm)
1951 February 20-28. - Club Saint-Germain, rue Saint-Benoit, Paris |
