Django Reinhardt

Plays the Music of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern (EJC 55445)

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Plays the Music of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern

Django Reinhardt

Essential Jazz Classics

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EJC 122056

EJC 55445

JAZZ

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Plays the Music of Cole Porter and Jerome Kern

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CD 9,95 €

All of Django’s recordings of songs by the great American composers Cole Porter and Jerome Kern.
Compiled from various sessions in Django’s discography, these selections feature a wide variety of accompaniment and arrangements. The common thread between them all, however, is Django’s incomparable improvisational genius.
As a bonus, all of his recordings of Irving Berlin tunes have also been added.

Includes 12-page booklet

DJANGO REINHARDT, guitar soloist on all tracks, plus:
Collective personnel: Stéphane Grappelli (vln), Rex Stewart (tp), André Ekyan, Hubert Rostaing (cl), Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre “Baro” Ferret, Marcel Bianchi (g), and Louis Vola (b), among others.

All tracks recorded in Paris, France, 1935-1953.


The COLE PORTER Songbook:

01 NIGHT AND DAY (1953) 2:51
02 BEGIN THE BEGUINE (1949) 3:45
03 WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE 2:08
04 NIGHT AND DAY (1949) 3:03
05 JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS (1947, Brussels) 3:19
06 I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU 3:17
07 ANYTHING GOES 2:34
08 NIGHT AND DAY (1947) 2:52
09 JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS (1947, Paris) 2:50
10 BEGIN THE BEGUINE (1942) 2:55
11 WHY SHOULDN’T I CARE? 2:51
12 MISS OTIS REGRETS 3:06
13 BEGIN THE BEGUINE (1940) 2:53
14 NIGHT AND DAY (1938) 2:43


The JEROME KERN Songbook:

15 YESTERDAYS (broadcast, 1953) 1:51
16 OL’ MAN RIVER (studio, 1947) 2:40
17 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE 2:52
18 I WON’T DANCE 2:50
19 WE WERE SO YOUNG 3:16
20 OL’ MAN RIVER (broadcast, 1947) 3:33
21 YESTERDAYS (broadcast, 1952) 3:08


Bonus tracks:
The IRVING BERLIN Songbook:

22 BLUE SKIES (1949) 4:10
23 MARIE 2:51
24 A PRETTY GIRL IS LIKE A MELODY 2:39
25 I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM (take 1) 2:32
26 BLUE SKIES (1940) 2:38
27 I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM (take 2) 2:24

Total time: 78:31