The Essential Collection

by Django Reinhardt

Overview

Whether it is "essential" or not is up to jazz fans to debate, but this budget two-disc Essential Collection of material by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli contains no less than 51 selections and offers brilliant performances by the gypsy jazz duo along with their Hot Club of France band from the 1930s and '40s. Sound quality is fair to good throughout, as it seems most of these cuts were taken from original master tapes and not 78s or acetates. Of course the band covered some stellar material such as "Jeepers Creepers," Irving Berlin's "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," "Georgia on My Mind," and a number of stellar originals such as "Hungaria," the "HCQ Strut," and "Stompin' at Decca" among them. For the money, this is a fine collection. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	06/20/2006
Label:	West End Records / Avid
UPC:	5022810185727

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Way Down Upon the Swanee River
2. Blue Drag
3. Swing Guitars
4. Limehouse Blues
5. Oriental Shuffle
6. After You've Gone
7. I Can't Give You Anything but Love
8. Shine
9. Georgia (On My Mind)
10. Exactly Like You
11. Tears
12. Rose Room
13. In a Sentimental Mood
14. Runnin' Wild
15. Solitude
16. Miss Annabelle Lee
17. Liebestraum No 3
18. The Sheik of Araby
19. When Day Is Done
20. A Little Love, A Little Kiss
21. Hot Lips
22. Body and Soul
23. I'll See You in My Dreams
24. R-Vingt Six
25. Blue Lou

Disc 2

26. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
27. Moonglow
28. Stompin' at Decca
29. It Had to Be You
30. Them There Eyes
31. If I Had You
32. Billets Doux
33. Souvenirs
34. Swing from Paris
35. Three Little Words
36. Night and Day
37. Appel Direct
38. Tornerai
39. The Flat Foot Floogie
40. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
41. Louise
42. Twelfth Year
43. Japanese Sandman
44. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
45. H.C.Q. Strut
46. Hungaria
47. My Melancholy Baby
48. Jeepers Creepers
49. Tea for Two
50. Swing '39
51. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Django Reinhardt   Primary Artist
Stephane Grappelli   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Irving Berlin   Composer
Duke Ellington   Composer
Django Reinhardt   Composer
Ernie Burnett   Composer
Doris Tauber   Composer
Maceo Pinkard   Composer
William Tracey   Composer
Gus Kahn   Composer
Vincent Youmans   Composer
Harry Ruby   Composer
Bert Kalmar   Composer
Stephane Grappelli   Composer
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Irving Caesar   Composer
Dorothy Fields   Composer
Robert Katscher   Composer
Lao Silesu   Composer
George Norton   Composer
Irving Mills   Composer
Isham Jones   Composer