Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt's interpretations of the blues compiled here for the first time ever on one set! The collection includes both studio and live blues and presents them in chronological order. Includes 12-page booklet

PERSONNEL:

DJANGO REINHARDT, guitar on all tracks (also violin on Disc 1, track 23), plus:
Collective personnel:
Bill Coleman, Benny Carter, Rex Stewart (tp), André Ekyan (as),
Barney Bigard, Hubert Rostaing (cl), Stéphane Grappelli, Eddie South (vln),
Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre "Baro" Ferret (g), Joe Turner, Duke Ellington (p),
Louis Vola, Pierre Michelot (b), Jean-Louis Viale (d), among many others.

Recorded in Paris, Brussels, Chicago & Rome, 1935-1953.


CD 1: Total Time: 79:40

01 ST. LOUIS BLUES [1935] 3:30
02 LIMEHOUSE BLUES [1935] 3:11
03 LIMEHOUSE BLUES [1936] 2:48
04 P.B. FLAT BLUES 2:58
05 5ST. LOUIS BLUES [1937] 2:45
06 EDDIE'S BLUES 3:10
07 BIG BOY BLUES 3:28
08 BILL COLEMAN BLUES 2:50
09 FIDDLE BLUES 2:48
10 MINOR SWING [1937] 3:17
11 STEPHEN'S BLUES 3:17
12 BLUES 3:05
13 BLUE LIGHT BLUES 3:07
14 FAREWELL BLUES 3:17
15 SOLID OLD MAN 3:07
16 LOW COTTON 3:04
17 BLUES OF YESTERDAY 2:39
18 BOOGIE WOOGIE (PARTS 1 & 2) [1940] 5:26
19 LIMEHOUSE BLUES [1940] 2:29
20 BLUES [BLUES EN MINEUR] [1940] 3:12
21 NOËL BLUES 2:58
22 SWINGING THE BLUES 2:13
23 BLUES EN MINEUR [1942] 2:52
24 BLUES CLAIR [1943] 3:05
25 ZUIDERZEE BLUES 2:41
26 BLUES D'AUTREFOIS
(BLUES D'OUTREMER) 2:37


CD 2: Total Time: 79:26

01 UPTOWN BLUES [STUDIO] 4:08
02 UPTOWN BLUES [LIVE] 3:20
03 A BLUES RIFF 3:49
04 BLUES 2:38
05 MINOR BLUES [BLUES EN MINEUR] [1947] 2:48
06 BLUES FOR BARCLAY [take 2 master] 2:53
07 BLUES FOR BARCLAY [take 1 alternate] 3:02
08 DJANGO'S BLUES 3:09
09 BLUES CLAIR [1947] 2:45
10 MINOR SWING [1947] 2:52
11 BLUES PRIMITIF 2:42
12 BLUES EN MINEUR [1947] 3:30
13 ST. LOUIS BLUES [1947] 4:08
14 MINOR BLUES [BLUES EN MINEUR] [1949] 2:43
15 MINOR SWING [1949] 2:38
16 C JAM BLUES [1949] 2:37
17 MINOR SWING [1950] 2:26
18 ROYAL GARDEN BLUES 2:41
19 ST. LOUIS BLUES [1950] 4:07
20 C JAM BLUES [1950] 3:36
21 BOOGIE WOOGIE [1950] 3:25
22 BLUES [JAM SESSION] 4:03
23 BLUES 2:56
24 BLUES FOR IKE 3:22
25 D.R. BLUES 3:11