Django esque

DamienH

Hey,
I'm just wondering if somebody can give me the names of some artists who play gypsy style guitar ( a la Mr. Reinhardt )? Thanks a lot for any help

curt

hi there

there is a guy called bireli lagrene from alsace in france, he is a gipsy and was quite a phenomenon, especially when he hit the scene when he was only 15. he is also known for his collaboration with jaco pastorius around 1986.

check out his webpage

http://www.lagrene.com/listen.htm

there is also some videos on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bireli+lagrene

mandoman

there is a band in dublin called the hot club of dublin. they are made up of a bunch of brothers on guitars and bass and a eastern european violinist. they do loads of django/grappelli stuff and some originals.

stevejazzx

birelli is cool, a bit mental, lovely album with and silvan luc, 2 acoustic guitar playing standards it s great.
django was different to these modern guys, he had real attack......
here a clip some fancy modern gypsey jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7akaGnB2II
theres a pull down menu to the right with load s more clips

gte some latcho drom...very djangoy indeed

Setun

Check out the MJQ song Django, or the Grant Green version. Not really very gypsy, but brilliant anyway. Check it!

shatners basoon

i thought that was written by Joe Pass?
Which is a fantastic song by the way, great album too but doesn't sound anything like django (which is a good thing as pass doesn't have to copy ppl to be great:D) But hey its still Django related.
Actually while we're at it, does anyone know what the best of the many many Django collections out there?
I've just the Jazz masters one- good
and the gold jazz colletion one- not great
Any recommendations?

Setun

I think it was the MJQ but I could be horribly wrong.
As long as you have Limehouse Blues and China Boy on it you're doing well, not to mention Minor Swing. I have the Gold Collection and the Ultimate Collection, the latter not being very ultimate, but ample nonetheless.
What great Django originals are there? I only have him doing standards really. I have a good version of Djangology, which is pretty good.

mandoman wrote:

there is a band in dublin called the hot club of dublin. they are made up of a bunch of brothers on guitars and bass and a eastern european violinist. they do loads of django/grappelli stuff and some originals.

On Topic: If you're in Galway and feel like a bit of Gypsy music, the Hot Club De Galway used to, probably still does, play Django every Sunday aswell. Check out The Ticket <friday Irish Times supp> for further info. <That's if they haven't moved to Dublin and become the band Mandoman mentions>

stevejazzx

Daddio wrote:

I think it was the MJQ but I could be horribly wrong.
As long as you have Limehouse Blues and China Boy on it you're doing well, not to mention Minor Swing. I have the Gold Collection and the Ultimate Collection, the latter not being very ultimate, but ample nonetheless.
What great Django originals are there? I only have him doing standards really. I have a good version of Djangology, which is pretty good.


On Topic: If you're in Galway and feel like a bit of Gypsy music, the Hot Club De Galway used to, probably still does, play Django every Sunday aswell. Check out The Ticket <friday Irish Times supp> for further info. <That's if they haven't moved to Dublin and become the band Mandoman mentions>

Joe pass has a whole cd called for django on which he plays a song called django written by the pianist John lewis.

Original django tune

Most famously his piece 'nuages' (clouds). There are many recording by django of this piece but the most the second studio version which includes a lovely section of artifical harmonics in his solo.
Secondly Moinor swing, a simple but nonetheless great showpiece for many swing groups.
Manoir De Mes Reves is another great django number along Bellville and Melodie de crepsville, djangoloy etc.