Django Reinhardt - The Electric Years
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Artist: Django ReinhardtEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Music Label: Avid Jazz
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Peche A La Mouche
- Minor Blues
- For Sentimental Reasons
- Blues For Barclay
- Danse Norvegienne
- Folie A Amphion
- Vette
- Anniversary Song
- Swing 48
- September Song
- Brazil
- I'll Never Smile Again
- New York City
- Django's Blues
- I Love You
- Love's Mood
- Vendredi 13
- Billets Doux
- Swing Dynamique
- Lover Man
- Rhythme Futur
- Topsy
- Moppin' The Bride (Micro)
- Insensiblement
- Mano
- Blues Primitif
- Gipsy With A Song
- Blues For Ike
- September Song
- Night And Day
- Insensiblement
- Manoir de Mes Reves
- Nuages
- Brazil
- I'm Confessin'
- Double Whisky
- Dream of You
- Impromptu
- Vamp
- Keep Cool
- Fleche D'Or
- Troublant Bolero
- Nuits de Saint Germain-des-Pres
- Crazy Rhythm
- Anouman
- Fine and Dandy
- D.R. Blues
- Symphonie
- Improvisation Sur La Danse Norvegienne
- St Louis Blues
- Douce Ambiance
- Melodie Au Crepuscule
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Music reviews of The Electric Years
Music Review: Somewhat Misleading Title
Rating: 3 Stars
It needs to be noted that not all of these songs are played on an electric guitar as most people understand it. On his tour of the U.S. with Duke Ellington he was given a Gibson L5 (an archtop fitted with a DeArmond pickup) because he arrived with only a suitcase. Before the end of the tour he had his friend Charles Delauney bring him the Selmer from his home, according to Michael Dregni in his bio on Reinhardt. He said, "At least it's got tone, you can hear the chords like you can on the piano." Up to the end of his too-short life he was experimenting with various after-market pickups on his acoustic Selmer guitar as they became available in France. He continued to play the Selmer in performance while he practiced on electric guitars. All you have to do is listen to the samples of the first few songs of this CD to hear the difference. For example, listen to track 10, September Song, and then track 29 of the same song. The early sessions after WWII probably showcase Django's genius on a Selmer acoustic guitar with a soundhole-mounted pickup seen in some photos. By the early 50's he was using an electric guitar. This is confirmed in notes by Pierre Michelot included with another CD that has some of these same songs: Peche ? la Mouche, The Great Blue Star Sessions, 1947-1953, on Verve. On the 1953 Blue Star set we hear Django playing his electric in a bebop style with only Maurice Vander on piano, Pierre Michelot on bass, and Jean-Louis Viale on drums.
Description of The Electric Years
The legendary Django Reinhardt appears on an AVID release for the second time, here featuring his electric period. Focusing on his music after 1947 when he returned from the USA having played with Duke Ellington, we also include a valuable recording made at the RDF radio studios possibly for a film soundtrack and skillfully re-mastered by AVID's own sound engineers. Django's music in the 1950's underwent many changes as witnessed among these tracks. We travel through small group swing to bebop influenced modern harmonic and rhythmically conceptual pieces, urgent, wild and frantic as detected in his amazing guitar playing!General CDs
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