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Swing From Paris (ASV) (Import) (CD)

By: Django Reinhardt (Artist) and Grappelli (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Swing From Paris (ASV) (Import) (CD) Album By Django Reinhardt (Artist) and ...
1   I Got Rhythm
2   St. Louis Blues
3   Appel Direct
4   Honeysuckle Rose
5   Black And White
6   Limehouse Blues
7   Moonglow
8   Billets Doux
9   Daphne
10   China Boy
11   Night And Day
12   My Sweet
13   It Don't Mean A Thing
14   Sweet Georgia Brown
15   Swing From Paris
16   I've Found A New Baby
17   Lambeth Walk
18   Them There Eyes
19   It Was So Beautiful
20   Three Little Words
21   H.C.Q. Strut
22   Swing 39
 
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Full performer name: Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli.

Personnel: Django Reinhardt (guitar); Stephane Grappelli (violin); Joseph Reinhardt, Roger Chaput, Eugene Vees, Pierre Ferret (guitar); Louis Vola, Roger Grasset, Emmanuel Soudieux, Tony Rovira (bass).

Recorded between 1935 and 1939. Includes liner notes by Peter Gammond.

One of the most remarkable things about Reinhardt's music is how it manages to be so propulsive without the aid of drums or percussion. The instrumentation here--three guitars, bass and violin--creates a curiously clear, open-ended sound uncommon to early jazz, without sacrificing power or rhythmic intensity. Reinhardt's gypsy-flavored swing style (all the more amazing since he only had the use of two fingers) transforms the fretboard of the guitar into a field for acrobatics: flurried noodling in the high register, soulful string bends, and looping melodic patterns.

Grapelli's prowess on the violin is equally astonishing, soaring along and threading the themes with dazzling embellishments. The album's tracks, mostly standards such as "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Night And Day" and "St. Louis Blues," also include Reinhardt and Grapelli originals like "Swing 39," "My Sweet" and the unbelievably great "Appel Direct," which sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic trying to solve a murder mystery while running in faster and faster circles. With its original sound, stupendous playing and driving rhythms (without drums!), SWING FROM PARIS is a wonderful disc.

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