Django Reinhardt - Django In Rome 1949 1950

Django Reinhardt

Django in Rome 1949-1950 [Box set]

4 Discs

.FLAC



Original Release Date: April 20, 2004

# Label: Jsp Records

# ASIN: B0001AV562



"HE WAS KNOWN AS DJANGO, a Gypsy name meaning "I awake..." ~ Michael Dregni, Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. [If you are at all interested in this truly incredible muscian, this is the book to read.]

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Born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium, Reinhardt's Gypsy nickname "Django" was Romani for "I awake."[3] He spent most of his youth in gypsy encampments close to Paris, playing banjo, guitar and violin from an early age, and professionally at Bal-musette halls in Paris. He started first on the violin and eventually moved on to a banjo-guitar that had been given to him and his first known recordings (in 1928) were of him playing the banjo.

Django Reinhardt as a boy



At the age of 18, Reinhardt was injured in a fire that ravaged the caravan he shared with Florine "Bella" Mayer, his first wife.[4] They were very poor, and to supplement their income Bella made imitation flowers out of celluloid and paper. Consequently, their home was full of this highly flammable material. Returning from a performance late one night, Reinhardt apparently knocked over a candle on his way to bed. While his family and neighbors were quick to pull him to safety, he received first- and second-degree burns over half his body. His right leg was paralyzed and the third and fourth fingers of his left hand were badly burned. Doctors believed that he would never play guitar again and intended to amputate one of his legs.[5] Reinhardt refused to have the surgery and left the hospital after a short time; he was able to walk within a year with the aid of a cane.



His brother Joseph Reinhardt, an accomplished guitarist himself, bought Django a new guitar. With rehabilitation and practice he relearned his craft in a completely new way, even as his third and fourth fingers remained partially paralyzed. He played all of his guitar solos with only two fingers, and used the two injured digits only for chord work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt



Disc: 1



1. Over the Rainbow

2. Night and Day

3. Minor Blues

4. Nature Boy

5. World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

6. Vous Qui Passez Sans Me Voir

7. Hallelujah

8. Nagasaki

9. I'll Never Be the Same

10. Swing '39

11. Clopin Clopant

12. Honeysuckle Rose

13. All the Things You Are

14. Djangology

15. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

16. For Sentimental Reasons

17. Daphné

18. Mer

19. Sweet Georgia Brown

20. Lover Man

21. Marie

22. Stormy Weather

23. Minor SwingDisc: 2



1. To Each His Own

2. What Is This Thing Called Love?

3. Ou Es-Tu Mon Amour

4. Undecided

5. Swing '42

6. I Surrender Dear

7. After You've Gone

8. I Got Rhythm

9. I Saw Stars

10. Artillerie Lourde

11. It's Only a Paper Moon

12. Time on My Hands

13. Brick Top

14. Tchaikovsky's Starry Night

15. My Blue Heaven

16. Menilmontant

17. Swing Guitars

18. My Melancholy Baby

19. Webster

20. Micro

21. Micro

22. Dream of You

23. Begin the BeguineDisc: 3



1. How High the Moon

2. Nuages

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

5. Man I Love

6. Peanut Vendor

7. Just a Gigolo

8. Troublant Bolero

9. Rosetta

10. Blue Skies

11. It Might as Well Be Spring

12. Blue Lou

13. Brazil

14. What a Diff'rence a Day Made

15. Pigalle

16. Manoir de Mes Reves

17. Improvisation No.4

18. Anniversary Song

19. Stormy Weather

20. Russian Songs Melody

21. Jersey BounceDisc: 4

1. Dinette

2. Sophisticated Lady

3. Micro

4. Dream of You

5. Nuages

6. Darktown Strutters' Ball

7. Greig's Norwegian Dance

8. A-Tisket, A-Tasket

9. Manoir de Mes Reves

10. Place de Brouckere

11. September Song

12. Royal Garden Blues

13. St. Louis Blues

14. Sweet Georgia Brown

15. Minor Swing

16. Double Whisky

17. Artillerie Lourde

18. St. James Infirmary

19. C Jam Blues

20. Honeysuckle Rose

21. Debussy's Reverie

22. Black Night

23. Boogie Woogie



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