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| Crazy Rhythm - The Famous 1936-1937 Recordings |
| Django Reinhardt |
| első megjelenés éve: 1937 |
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| (2000)
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2 x CD |
| 8.691 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | I Can't Give You Anything But Love
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| 2. | I'se A Muggin'
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| 3. | Oriental Shuffle
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| 4. | After You've Gone
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| 5. | Are You In The Mood
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| 6. | Limehouse Blues
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| 7. | Georgia On My Mind
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| 8. | Swing Guitars
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| 9. | Nagasaki
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| 10. | Shine
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| 11. | In The Still Of The Night
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| 12. | Sweet Chorus
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| 13. | Tears
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| 14. | Charleston
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| 15. | You're Driving Me Crazy
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| 16. | Exactly Like You
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| 17. | Solitude
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| 18. | Hot Lips
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| 19. | Ain't Misbehavin'
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| 20. | When Day Is Done
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| 21. | Body And Soul
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| 22. | Rose Room
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| 23. | Runin' Wild
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| 24. | Chicago
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Mystery Pacific
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| 2. | Miss Annabelle Lee
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| 3. | A Little Love, A Little Kiss
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| 4. | Liebestraum No.3
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| 5. | In A Sentimental Mood
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| 6. | The Sheik Of Araby
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| 7. | Improvisation
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| 8. | Parfum
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| 9. | Alabamy Bound
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| 10. | Out Of Nowhere
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| 11. | Crazy Rhythm
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| 12. | Honeysuckle Rose
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| 13. | Sweet Georgia Brown
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| 14. | Bugle Call Rag
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| 15. | Between The Devil And The Blue Sea
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| 16. | I Got Rhythm
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| 17. | Hangin' Around Boudon
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| 18. | Sweet Sue, Just You
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| 19. | Japanese Sandman
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| 20. | St. Louis Blues
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| 21. | Bouncin' Around
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| 22. | Eddie's Blues
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| 23. | Sweet Georgia Brown
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| 24. | Lady Be Good
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Jazz
Continental Jazz
Gypsy
Swing
Recorded: May 4, 1936-Sep 29, 1937, Paris, France
Django Reinhardt (guitar); Freddy Taylor (vocals); Benny Carter (alto saxophone, trumpet); Andre Ekyan (alto saxophone); Alix Combelle (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Bill Coleman, Lester "Shad" Collins (trumpet); Dicky Wells (trombone); Stephane Grappelli (violin, piano); Eddie South, Michel Warlop (violin); Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre Ferret, Roger Chaput, Louis Gaste (guitar); Lucien Simoens, Louis Vola, Wilson Myers, Eugene D'Helemes (bass); Tommy Benford (drums)
A beautifully packaged two-disc set, CRAZY RHYTHM compiles numerous 1936-'37 recordings by the legendary Gypsy/Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Much in the way that Thelonious Monk created an utterly singular approach to the piano in the '40s, Reinhardt invented his own distinctive style of guitar playing in the '30s. With his deft, two-fingered fretwork (the result of his hand being injured in a fire) and his highly rhythmic strumming, Reinhardt found fame as part of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, which also featured violinist extraordinaire Stephane Grappelli. This collection presents many tunes performed with the Hot Club ensemble, including standards ("Georgia on My Mind," "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Body and Soul," etc.), all of which feature Reinhardt's sauntering "gypsy jazz" treatment. Even more importantly, CRAZY RHYTHM showcases a number of Reinhardt originals, including songs written with Grappelli (the lilting "Oriental Shuffle," the melancholy "Tears"), as well as inventive solo tracks (the adventurous "Improvisation"). Also of note are four tunes from an April '37 Paris date in which Reinhardt jams with American saxophone greats Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, producing predictably astonishing results. Although there are tons of Reinhardt compilations on the market, this set--with its informative, photo-rich 31-page booklet and excellent sound quality--is one of the finest.
Django Reinhardt
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s
Born: Jan 23, 1910 in Liberchies, Belgium
Died: May 16, 1953 in Fontainebleau, France
Genre: Jazz
Django Reinhardt was the first hugely influential jazz figure to emerge from Europe -- and he remains the most influential European to this day, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his old cohort Stephane Grappelli and a bare handful of others. A free-spirited gypsy, Reinhardt wasn't the most reliable person in the world, frequently wandering off into the countryside on a whim. Yet Reinhardt came up with a unique way of propelling the humble acoustic guitar into the front line of a jazz combo in the days before amplification became widespread. He would spin joyous, arcing, marvelously inflected solos above the thrumming base of two rhythm guitars and a bass, with Grappelli's elegantly gliding violin serving as the perfect foil. His harmonic concepts were startling for their time -- making a direct impression upon Charlie Christian and Les Paul, among others -- and he was an energizing rhythm guitarist behind Grappelli, pushing their groups into a higher gear. Not only did Reinhardt put his stamp upon jazz, his string band music also had an impact upon the parallel development of Western swing, which eventually fed into the wellspring of what is now called country music. Although he could not read music, with Grappelli and on his own, Reinhardt composed several winsome, highly original tunes like "Daphne," "Nuages" and "Manoir de Mes Reves," as well as mad swingers like "Minor Swing" and the ode to his record label of the '30s, "Stomping at Decca." As the late Ralph Gleason said about Django's recordings, "They were European and they were French and they were still jazz."
A violinist first and a guitarist later, Jean Baptiste "Django" Reinhardt grew up in a gypsy camp near Paris where he absorbed the gypsy strain into his music. A disastrous caravan fire in 1928 badly burned his left hand, depriving him of the use of the fourth and fifth fingers, but the resourceful Reinhardt figured out a novel fingering system to get around the problem that probably accounts for some of the originality of his style. According to one story, during his recovery period, Reinhardt was introduced to American jazz when he found a 78 RPM disc of Louis Armstrong's "Dallas Blues" at an Orleans flea market. He then resumed his career playing in Parisian cafes until one day in 1934 when Hot Club chief Pierre Nourry proposed the idea of an all-string band to Reinhardt and Grappelli. Thus was born the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, which quickly became an international draw thanks to a long, splendid series of Ultraphone, Decca and HMV recordings.
The outbreak of war in 1939 broke up the Quintette, with Grappelli remaining in London where the group was playing and Reinhardt returning to France. During the war years, he led a big band, another quintet with clarinetist Hubert Rostaing in place of Grappelli, and after the liberation of Paris, recorded with such visiting American jazzmen as Mel Powell, Peanuts Hucko and Ray McKinley. In 1946, Reinhardt took up the electric guitar and toured America as a soloist with the Duke Ellington band but his appearances were poorly received. Some of his recordings on electric guitar late in his life are bop escapades where his playing sounds frantic and jagged, a world apart from the jubilant swing of old. However, starting in Jan. 1946, Reinhardt and Grappelli held several sporadic reunions where the bop influences are more subtly integrated into the old, still-fizzing swing format. In the 1950s, Reinhardt became more reclusive, remaining in Europe, playing and recording now and then until his death from a stroke in 1953. His Hot Club recordings from the `30s are his most irresistible legacy; their spirit and sound can be felt in current groups like Holland's Rosenberg Trio.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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