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DJANGO REINHARDT Volume 3 – Swing Guitars Classic 1936-1937 recordings by the QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE Naxos Jazz LegendsNAXOS 8.120686

 

1	Limehouse Blues	11	Exactly Like You
2	I Can’t Give You Anything But Love	12	Charleston
3	Oriental Shuffle	13	You’re Driving Me Crazy
4	After You’ve Gone	14	Tears
5	Are You In The Mood	15	Solitude
6	Shine	16	Hot Lips
7	Georgia On My Mind	17	Ain’t Misbehavin’
8	Swing Guitars	18	Rose Room
9	Sweet Chorus	19	Body and Soul
10	Nagasaki	20	When Day Is Done

Here Naxos presents another ‘Jazz Legends’ disc in its series aimed at highlighting the greatest recordings in the history of music. It is the third volume dedicated to ‘swing guitars’ and covers the career of Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club De France between May, 1936 and April 1937.

The nucleus of Django, guitar and Stephane Grappelli, violin is supported by a variety of musicians including Django’s brother Joseph. American vocalist Freddy Taylor appears on five tracks. Considering the proliferation of new material available today coupled with the mass of reissues and ‘compilation’ discs being produced it is small wonder that we hear little of this once internationally acclaimed group and their now acclaimed classic jazz. The music featured here spans many of the tunes of the day such as the opener ‘Limehouse Blues’ that highlights exactly why the group were so popular. After the straight melody things really hot up and there are fine solos by Reinhardt and Grappelli. Of the four original pieces composed by the co-leaders I preferred ‘Oriental Shuffle.’ Django’s work on Body and Soul is exceptional but the most attractive track to me was ‘When Day Is Done.’

It is safe to say that all the material presented would already feature in any Django aficionado’s collection. So, the success of the album relies on newcomers to the music and those who wish to ‘fill in the gaps’ in their collections. It deserves popularity but with so much competitive material available I think success could be limited.

Jack Ashby

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