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Jango Reinhardt Django Reinhardt; His real name is Jean Renard, Fr. Jean Reinhardt; January 23, 1910- May 16, 1953) was a French jazz virtuoso guitarist and co-founder of the Jazz Manush style.
Reissue of Django Sessions on Dial in 1947. Apparently, there were no original master tapes on Period, the tracks was recorded as from a household tape recorder, the original Dial tracks look much better. You can only imagine how cool Moppin’ the Bride sounded originally.
Clarinet Solo – Hubert Rostaing
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Lo-fi audiophile sound of Dinette. Django's musical extravaganza!
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Re-release of the 1947 recordings. The tracks are distinguished by a powerful drive a la Vendredi 13 and stunning clarity of sound.
Clarinet Solo – Hubert Rostaing
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The album was recorded by Django a month before his death. Contains unusual composition without a rhythm guitar and a second soloist. Django emphasised on sound extraction and gave rise to a surprisingly melodious, plastic and expressive guitar improvisations.
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Lo-Fi audiophile sound. In 1954, the English HMV released a series of records with Django remastered, all of them were somewhat sluggish, but the atmosphere of the 1930s was conveyed quite well on them, the sound remained soft and expressive.
Studio Dial is primarily famous for its magnificent recordings of Charlie Parker, Django recorded on it in 1943 and 1947, some of these recordings are presented here.
An example of a French remastering from 1967. Made not bad, but somewhat worse than the ACL’ job, the bottom is excessively clipped. The drive of Django and Grappelli is well conveyed, the clarity of the sound for swing is quite sufficient. Django performed the wonderful “I’LL See You In My Dreams” in a trio with Emmanuel Soudieux (double bass) and Pierre Ferret (rhythm guitar).
Remastered by Ace of Clubs from the 1938 Decca shellac originals (except Liza 1946 and H. C. Q. Strut 1939). For 1964, the remastering is very decent. The golden period of Django and Grappelli, the very hot juice.
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An example of remastering of Django and Bechet on the German Decca of some philophonist club. A thin 10″ plate with convex sides, most likely the late 1960s. The Bechet originals are a real audiophile Lo-Fi, recorded with overloads that give an extra drive, you can imagine how powerful it sounded in the original source.
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