![]() Babik ranged farther afield stylistically, but here the style modernises as his solo develops. The later Django seems plainly an inspiration of the New Quintette du Hot Club de France led by his son Babik (1944-2001) on the master’s “Micro”. There’s a track here from his Djangovision CD, where he’s joined by an organist and manages some Wes Montgomery licks too. Romane certainly found the master’s compositions from those later years very interesting. It’s commoner to read of regrets over his having moved over to electric guitar in those years. It’s said that these prevented a wider success (which seems dubious) and contributed to a subsequent lack of career prominence in the years before Django’s untimely death (aged 46 in 1953). The present set’s notes mention Django’s non-standard approach to being in the right place at the right time, and its disadvantages on that trip. They met again when Django played as invited guest soloist with Duke Ellington’s band on American tour (there are a few recordings). Did Charlie Christian, say, ever mention Django? In notes to a Concord CD by his “Quintet of the Hot Club of Concord” (which develops Djangomusic rather than just echo), Charlie Byrd remembers arriving as a soldier in liberated wartime Paris, seeking out and finding Django. King acknowledges his own debt to the Django recordings he heard as a young man. Was Allen’s virtuoso jazz guitarist (cum boozy bonzo Eugene Onegin) so in dread of Reinhardt because he was so wholly indebted to his recordings? Sharing Django’s Manouche background - gypsies whose province straddles the northern eastern French border - Romane’s debts include a common source with Reinhardt’s never far away here.ī.B. ![]() The Romane Acoustic Quartet’s opener to this set, Al Cohn’s “Symphonie”, sounds close to the Allen/Alden film’s soundtrack band. I had a preview of Woody Allen’s parody of the jazz bio-pic Sweet and Lowdown when the Allen soundtrack and Birdland fiesta star, Howard Alden, played Django solo features at an Edinburgh Jazz festival long ago. Django Reinhardt music has been receiving decent attention of late, with a celebration at Birdland represented on CD with - as well as Regina Carter’s command of jazz fiddle, Stuff Smith to Stephane Grappelli - a cross section of jazz guitar, especially analysable for Django content because it’s so good to the ears.
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