Django Reinhardt

INCLUDES 10 BONUS TRACKS

This rlease presents the complete original LP "The Immortal Django Reinhardt" (Reprise Records R-6075), which included recordings from a series of 1947 small group dates at the Radio Diffusion Française studios in Paris. On some tracks, Django is reunited with his longtime companion violinist Stéphane Grappelli and his brother Joseph Reinhardt, while on others he shares the frontline with clarinetist Hubert Rostaing. Six additional tracks from the Grapelli dates, as well as four other 1947 tracks with clarinet players have been included here as a bonus, among them readings of the classics “Minor Swing” and “Nuages”.

PERSONNEL:

TRACKS: [1-2], [8-9] & [15-20]:

DJANGO REINHARDT, guitar
STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI, violin
JOSEPH REINHARDT, guitar
EUGÈNE VÉES, guitar
FRED ERMELIN, bass
RDF, Studio Montparnasse, Paris, November 21 & 28, 1947.

TRACKS [3-7], [10-14] & [23:

DJANGO REINHARDT, electric guitar
HUBERT ROSTAING, clarinet
EUGÈNE VÉES, guitar
EMMANUEL SOUDIEUX, bass
ANDRÉ JOURDAN, drums
RDF, Studio Montparnasse, Paris, September 7 & 15, 1947.

TRACKS [21-22] & [24]:Same personnel as above exceptMAURICE MEUNIER (clarinet)replaces Rostaing.
Django plays acoustic guitar.
RDF, Studio Montparnasse, Paris, August 25 & 29, 1947.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOKLET

TRACKS:

01. OL’ MAN RIVER
02. I LOVE YOU
03. CREPUSCULE
04. SWINGTIME IN SPRINGTIME
05. LOUISE
06. I LOVE YOU FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS
07. SONGE D’AUTOMNE
08. SWING GUITARS
09. R-VINGT-SIX
10. SWEET CHORUS
11. JUST ONE OF THOSE 3:20
12. DJANGO’S DREAM
13. FÉERIE
14. STOCKHOLM
15. HOW HIGH THE MOON [version 1] (*)
16. HOW HIGH THE MOON [version 2] (*)
17. TIGER RAG (*)
18. TEARS (*)
19. DINAH (*)
20. THEM THERE EYES (*)
21. MINOR SWING (*)
22. SWING 39 (*)
23. LOVER MAN (*)
24. NUAGES (*)

TOTAL TIME: 77:15

(*) Bonus tracks: From the same sessions. Not included on the original LP.