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List of compositions by Django Reinhardt, the Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was the first major jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant. He was the first major jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant.
"Minor Swing" is a gypsy jazz tune composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. It was recorded by The Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1937. It was recorded five other times throughout Reinhardt's career and is considered to be one of his signature compositions.
Reinhardt was born on 23 January 1910 in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, [12] into a French family [8] of Manouche Romani descent. [12] His French, Alsatian father, Jean Eugene Weiss, domiciled in Paris with his wife, went by Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, his wife's surname, to avoid French military conscription. [13]
The 1999 film Sweet and Lowdown – which like Alice was written and directed by Woody Allen – premieres a version of "Limehouse Blues" performed by Howard Alden and the Dick Hyman Group: the number is titled "Limehouse Blues/ Mystery Pacific" as the train imitation which opens the Django Reinhardt composition "Mystery Pacific" is played by ...
The group began its recording career in September 1934, releasing two titles on the Odeon label under the name "Delaunay’s Jazz". A December 1934 session produced the first recordings released under the name "Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France, avec Stéphane Grappelly" (with Django's name misspelled as "Djungo").
Tchavolo Schmitt (left) with Steeve Laffont, playing their brand of gypsy jazz at la Chope des Puces, Paris, in 2016. Gypsy jazz (also known as sinti jazz, gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–1953), in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed ...
Djangology is a compilation album by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, released in 1961.. In 1949, Reinhardt and 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 did not know it at the time, these sessions would mark the last time the Gypsy guitarist and the French violinist recorded together.
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" [136] [137] is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Don George. "Minor Swing" [138] is a Gypsy jazz composition by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. "My Funny Valentine" [8] [11] [139] is a show tune from the Broadway musical Babes in Arms, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by ...