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• redblues ✭✭

  March 2010 Posts: 456

  Recorded a good few times by Django
  
  1 - Stéphane Grappelli's Hot Four
  Stéphane Grappelli (v); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt (g); Pierre “Baro” Ferret (g); Louis Vola (b)
  1935 October 13 - Paris
  
  2 - Dicky Wells and his Orchestra
  Bill Dillard, Shad Collins, Bill Coleman (tp); Dicky Wells (tb); Django Reinhardt (g solo);
  Richard “Dick” Fullbright (b); Bill Beason (dm)
  Django’s 1937 July 7 Recording Session - Swing Paris
  
  3 - Take 1 - Larry Adler (harmonica)
  Take 2 - acc. by Stéphane Grappelli (p); Django Reinhardt (g solo); Joseph Reinhardt, Eugène Vées (g); Roger Grasset (b)
  Django’s 1938 May 31 Recording Session - Paris
  
  4 - Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli
  Django Reinhardt (g); Stéphane Grappelli (v); Gianni Safred (p); Marco Pecori (b); Aurelio de Carolis (dm)
  Django’s 1949 January-February Recording Session - RAI Studios, Rome
  
  5 - Django Reinhardt (g solo)
  acc. by Ernie Royal (tp); Pierre Guyot (p); Ladislas Czabanyck (b); Christian Garros (dm)
  Django’s 1950 July Recording Session - Radio Luxemburg broadcast, Paris - (unissued)
  
  
  Robin Nolan makes some interesting points in one of his books about how Django based a good few of his songs on the I Got Rhythm structure, may be worth looking further into
• Arnstein New

  March 2010 Posts: 43

  Do you have a good source for that first one? It's not that I don't believe you, but I need a source for my text!
• Teddy Dupont Deity

  March 2010 Posts: 1,261

  Arnstein wrote:

  Do you have a good source for that first one? It's not that I don't believe you, but I need a source for my text!

  There are many but probably the best is "Django Reinhardt" by Charles Delaunay.
  
  If you want more details, it was recorded at Studio Polydor, 72-74, boulevard de la Gare and the recording engineer was Rudy Hamburger.

  youtube.com/user/TeddyDupont
  youtube.com/user/TheTeddyDupont
• Barengero Auda CityProdigy

  March 2010 Posts: 527

  Teddy Dupont wrote:

  the recording engineer was Rudy Hamburger.

  
  Teddy, his real name was Rudolf Hamburger, "Rudy" was only a nickname. If you want to learn more about his adventurous life, look here:
  
  http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hamburger
  
  Best,
  Barengero
• Barengero Auda CityProdigy

  March 2010 Posts: 527

  Barengero wrote:

  Teddy, his real name was Rudolf Hamburger
  Best,
  Barengero

  
  I´m working on a piece about Rudolf Hamburger. Here we have a photograph of Rudolf "Rudy" Hamburger just minutes after the recording session of "I Got Rhythm". Dietrich Schulz-Köhn gave it to me in 1980.
  
  Unfortunately I couldn´t figure out who was the composer of "I Got Rhythm" so far. Can anybody help? Maybe it was mistitled. The original seem to be "Agatha Rhythm". Any help appreciated!!
  
  Best
  Barengero
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  March 2010 Posts: 3,707

  George Gershwin

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
• Barengero Auda CityProdigy

  March 2010 Posts: 527

  Hm. This is what most people think, apparently. I wonder what make them so sure.
• Jack western Massachusetts✭✭✭✭

  March 2010 Posts: 1,752

  I thought you were just joking around, but maybe not? Anyway, the Agatha Rhythm title was a wartime way of circumventing the ban on American jazz...there used to be a topic here with a long list of similar titles, but I can't find it right now.
  
  best,
  Jack
• Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

  March 2010 Posts: 3,707

  If you check out the lyrics you will find that as well as check who has the rights
  
  The Nazi's weren't officially big on Jazz so lots of tunes DR played got renamed during the wartime occupation of France

  The Magic really starts to happen when you can play it with your eyes closed
• redblues ✭✭

  March 2010 Posts: 456

  Nazi Jazz Regulations
  http://www.shellac.org/wams/wnazi02.html
  
  Rule 4 "So-called jazz compositions may contain at the most 10% syncopation" !!!
  
  They used a standard SS syncopometer for ze enforcement of rule 4