Reinhardt, Django: 40 Breathtaking Recordings

Title: 40 Breathtaking Recordings
Artist: Reinhardt, Django
Label: Primo
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 805520090308
Genre: Jazz

(2-CD Set) This 40-track collection traces the genius of Django Reinhardt, the opening four numbers from 1934 reveal the Hot Club's effortless mastery of familiar repertoire, followed by "Ultra Fox." CD1 closes with the quintet enthusiastically running through two more Reinhardt/Grappelli compositions "Minor Swing" & "My Serenade". Django plays a delicate duet with Grappelli on a reprise of "Manoir de Mes Reves" and finally the guitarist performs a pensive unaccompanied reading of his masterpiece "Nuages". The first half of CD2 takes us up to the wartime breakup of the Hot Club, opening with Grappelli accompanying Django at the piano on "Sweet Georgia Brown", followed by a fine guitar solo on "Tea For Two".

Tracks:
1.1 I Saw Stars
1.2 Dinah
1.3 Tiger Rag
1.4 Oh Lady Be Good
1.5 Ultra Fox
1.6 The Sunshine of Your Smile
1.7 Avalon
1.8 Djangology
1.9 After You've Gone
1.10 Limehouse Blues
1.11 Nagasaki
1.12 Charleston
1.13 You're Driving Me Crazy
1.14 In a Sentimental Mood
1.15 Parfum
1.16 Honeysuckle Rose
1.17 St. Louis Blues
1.18 Bill Coleman Blues
1.19 Minor Swing
1.20 My Serenade
2.1 Sweet Georgia Brown
2.2 Tea for Two
2.3 Night and Day
2.4 I'm Coming Virginia
2.5 Them There Eyes
2.6 Why Shouldn't I?
2.7 Jeepers Creepers
2.8 Finesse
2.9 I'll See You in My Dreams
2.10 The Man I Love
2.11 Nuages
2.12 Django Rag
2.13 Manoir de Mes Reves
2.14 Blues Clair
2.15 Lover Man
2.16 Brazil
2.17 I'll Never Smile Again
2.18 For Sentimental Reasons
2.19 Manoir de Mes Reves (Duet with Stephane Grappelli)
2.20 Nuages (Solo)