Interesting Django Recordings and Lost Footage?

Svanis1337

Speaking of footage of Django with Duke Ellington... What does this look like?



Does this DVD contain unseen Django footage?

http://www.qleap.co.uk/product.asp?pID=909&cID=263

spatzo

I already have seen the photo of DUke Ellington's orchestra that is indicated as been shot in Chicago but I really don't think that it is the place and date given.

The only one clearly identified on the photo by me is Sonny Greer on drums but I do not see any guitar neither Django nor Fred Guy ...

The DVD indicates only the presence of the music of Django Reinhardt...

spatzo

Unfortunately the info on Ellington welcomed by Django in an airport (maybe Orly - maybe 1952)do not come from Alain Antonietto but I can't remember where I have heard this story

spatzo

The RIO guitar played by Django at the Nice Festival in 1948 (Opéra de Nice) was Pierre Cavalli's guitar who also played in the same Festival . Cavalli was the guitarist of the pianist Francis BURGER with Luca BURKHARDT trumpet, Walt BURGER tenor sax, Buddy BUZER alto sax, clarinet, vibraphone,Pierre CAVALLI Rio Guitar, René STEINBACK double bass and Willie BOSSART drums.

The guitar Django uses is one of the first model made by the Swiss Luthier Karl Schneider with the white logo. Saranne Ferret had also a Rio guitar but this guitar had the black Rio logo (3rd logo used by RIO guitars).

I'm searching the photos of Pierre Cavalli with his Rio for final proofing.

spatzo

New Django recording?

Guillaume Lesigne says that a 78 record played by Django has been given by Django in 1942 to an officer. His wife contacted Lesigne by email to say that such record was given to them by Django and she wanted to give him the record before it was dammaged by time (acetate record).

On that record there was two songs:

- Premier Rendez-vous
- Verlaine

Unfortunately the woman (french) could not be ever contacted again (email box full)

spatzo

New Django audio/video (?) recording?

Two tunes could have been recorded (very noisy recording with people speaking) in 1948 at the occasion of Django's appearance in the Casino of Nice (not the Opera known recording). Tunes are Nuages and Minor Swing.

A 2/3 sec footage showing Django at that occasion could exist...

Teddy Dupont

spatzo wrote:

The RIO guitar played by Django at the Nice Festival in 1948 (Opéra de Nice) was Pierre Cavalli's guitar who also played in the same Festival . Cavalli was the guitarist of the pianist Francis BURGER with Luca BURKHARDT trumpet, Walt BURGER tenor sax, Buddy BUZER alto sax, clarinet, vibraphone,Pierre CAVALLI Rio Guitar, René STEINBACK double bass and Willie BOSSART drums.

The guitar Django uses is one of the first model made by the Swiss Luthier Karl Schneider with the white logo. Saranne Ferret had also a Rio guitar but this guitar had the black Rio logo (3rd logo used by RIO guitars).

I'm searching the photos of Pierre Cavalli with his Rio for final proofing.

Here he is but yet again, like some of the Bianchi photos, we cannot be see the headstock to be sure. I don't think I have seen another RIO with the same lettering as that played by Django.

Teddy Dupont

spatzo wrote:

Unfortunately the info on Ellington welcomed by Django in an airport (maybe Orly - maybe 1952)do not come from Alain Antonietto but I can't remember where I have heard this story

I've sent you an email regarding this.........But you were right about it being Orly.

Teddy Dupont

Svanis1337 wrote:

Speaking of footage of Django with Duke Ellington... What does this look like?



Does this DVD contain unseen Django footage?

http://www.qleap.co.uk/product.asp?pID=909&cID=263

There is no Django in that photo. The music will almost certainly be the pieces we already know about - "Ride, Red, Ride", "Blues Riff", "Honeysuckle Rose" & "Improvisation No.2".

spatzo

About Ellington 1950 - Ellington arrived in Le Havre at the beginning of April 1950, he played in Le Havre and in Rouen and then went to Paris where he had to play for 8 nights at "Le Palais de Chayot" from Apr 12. He was interviewed in his appartments of Champs ELysées by Boris Vian and the guitarist Maurice Cullaz.

Ellington says in this interview that it is the first time he returns in Paris after his venue in Apr 1939.

(Link is here [almost only french - nothing an Django] http://www.nuttymp3.com/mp3/2565513 )

He was filmed in the gardens of restaurant "La Ferme d'Auteuil" while playing with the band in those gardens. The video is available on Gaumont Pathé Archives site. The date is April 7, 1950 the same date of the interview.

Now I think that he returned in Paris only in 1958 so if such an encounter ever existed between Django, Ellington and a airport it is elsewhere.

The first regular commercial flight from Orly Airport (South of Paris) to/from the States occured only on May 14, 1952. So I think that the Orly marvel is quite impossible.