Django Reinhardt – Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934-53

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt –Rétrospective Django Reinhardt 1934-53

2003

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Version Information

Label
Saga
Catalog number
038 161-2
Original year
2003
Version year
2003
Region
Europe
Format

3 x CD
Compilation

Version notes

The first disc consists of the recordings Django made with the original between 1934 and 1940.
The second disc covers '40 through '47.
The third disc spans '47 through '53, and finds Reinhardt moving away somewhat from his "gypsy jazz" and more toward a mainstream swing sound.

1934-40:
Track 1-1 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Ultraphone AP-1422).
Track 1-2 taken from the 10" shellac (Ultraphone AP-1444).
Track 1-3 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Ultraphone AP-1479).
Track 1-4 taken from Gramophone K-7706.
Track 1-5 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 2).
Track 1-6 taken from the this version 10" shellac (His Master's Voice B-8737).
Track 1-7 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 7).
Track 1-8 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 23).
Track 1-9 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 77).
Track 1-10 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.6616).
Track 1-11 taken from Decca F.9428.
Track 1-12 taken from Brunswick 505269.
Track 1-13 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.6675).
Track 1-14 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.6875).
Track 1-15 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.6935).
Track 1-16 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.7027).
Track 1-17 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 211)
Track 1-18 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.7390).
Track 1-19 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 83).


1940-47:
Track 2-1 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 88).
Track 2-2 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 218).
Track 2-3 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 137).
Track 2-4 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Rythme D 5017).
Track 2-5 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 183).
Track 2-6 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 158).
Tracks 2-7 and 2-8 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 254).
Tracks 2-9 and 2-10 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 229).
Track 2-11 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 242).
Tracks 2-12 and 2-13 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca F.8604).
Track 2-14 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 253).
Track 2-15 taken from Decca (MB) 9243.
Track 2-16 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca (MB) 9244).
Track 2-17 taken from Blue Star B.S. 37.
Track 2-18 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Blue Star B.S. 38).
Track 2-19 has no additional information.

1947-1953:
Track 3-1 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Blue Star B.S. 53).
Tracks 3-2 and 3-3 were recorded 11.08 or 11.13.1947 at the Studio Montparnasse, Paris.
Tracks 3-4 and 3-5 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Swing SW 270).
Tracks 3-6 and 3-7 were recorded 11.21 or 11.28.1947 at the Studio Montparnasse, Paris.
Tracks 3-8 to 3-13 were recorded January or February 1949 the R.A.I. Studios, Rome.
Track 3-14 was recorded 10.25.1949 at the Radio Geneve Studios.
Tracks 3-15 and 3-16 taken from the this version 10" shellac (Decca 21719).
Track 3-17 taken from Decca 36124.
Tracks to 3-20 were recorded 30.01.1953, Paris.

Tracklist

1934-40

1-1.Dinah 2:39
1-2.Sweet Sue (Just You) 2:57
1-3.Blue Drag 2:53
1-4.Limehouse Blues 2:48
1-5.Charleston 2:54
1-6.The Sheik Of Araby 3:07
1-7.St. Louis Blues 2:47
1-8.Minor Swing 3:17
1-9.My Serenade 3:04
1-10.Night And Day 2:42
1-11.Sweet Georgia Brown 3:08
1-12.Honeysuckle Rose 2:54
1-13.Black And White 3:05
1-14.Appel Indirect (Appel Direct) 2:58
1-15.Improvisation No.2 2:41
1-16.Swing 39 3:19
1-17.I'll See You In My Dreams 2:34
1-18.H.C.Q. Strut 2:56
1-19.Rythme Futur 2:40

1940-47

2-1.Les Yeux Noirs 2:17
2-2.All Of Me 2:48
2-3.Swing 42 2:48
2-4.Blues En Mineur 2:50
2-5.Douce Ambiance 2:21
2-6.Manoir De Mes Rêves 3:18
2-7.Blues Clair 3:06
2-8.I Can't Give You Anything But Love 2:24
2-9.Échos De France (La Marseillaise) 2:47
2-10.Embraceable You 3:14
2-11.Django's Tiger 2:39
2-12.Mélodie Au Crépuscule 3:12
2-13.Nuages 3:19
2-14.How High The Moon 2:34
2-15.Just One Of Those Things 2:52
2-16.Songe D'Automne 3:01
2-17.Vette 2:15
2-18.Danse Norvégienne 3:02
2-19.Django's Dream (Rêverie) 3:50

1947-53

3-1.Topsy 3:06
3-2.Dinette 3:02
3-3.Belleville 2:36
3-4.Si Tu Savais 2:41
3-5.Ol' Man River 2:36
3-6.Tears (Muri Wachsella An U Sennelo Weesch) 3:43
3-7.Tiger Rag 2:55
3-8.Minor Swing 2:36
3-9.La Mer 4:23
3-10.Bricktop 3:44
3-11.Où Es-Tu Mon Amour ? 3:20
3-12.Daphné 2:27
3-13.Djangology 2:48
3-14.Place De Brouckère 3:15
3-15.Nuits De Saint-Germain-Des-Prés 3:06
3-16.Troublant Boléro 3:31
3-17.Anouman 2:45
3-18.Brazil 2:26
3-19.Confessin' 3:38
3-20.Nuages 3:16

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