Django Reinhardt and Stefane Grappelly, 1935-1938 Decca personality series 78prm shellac rip


The post-war reissue, to estimate the loss of reissue clarity you can compare it with Honeysuckle Rose and Night and Day on the Ace Of Club vinyl, losses are definitely great. Well, Django himself – one of a kind, no one except him could not and can not extract from the acoustic guitar such a dense and expressive sound. The same can be said about Grappelli's graceful violin, as if created for a swing.

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Classical Guitar, Soviet 1960s LP Rip

Four examples of the beautiful classical guitar.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1972 Melody LP mono Rip


Listen to the magic of Ivanov-Kramsky's guitar – the best performance of the Preludes of Villa-Lobos. The sound of the record is too compressed though.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1948 78RPM Rip


Beuatiful audiophile Lo-Fi of the 1940s! Yes, at the record Factory right after the war, there was a chic (german trophy?) equipment at 78. Switching to 33 in the early 1950s was, of course, a disaster.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1956 LP Rip


Impeccable intonation and taste – so you can characterize the guitar playing of A. Ivanov-Kramskoy, these tracks in particular.

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Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy, 1965 Melody LP Rip


It sounds like a re-release of 1940s records. Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoy is one of the few classical guitarists with a filigree sense of rhythm, hypnotic sound and calligraphic sound extraction.

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Django Reinhardt ‎– Memorial Album Vol.1, 1956 LP rip

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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Django Reinhardt ‎– Memorial Album Vol.2, 1956 LP rip

Lo-fi audiophile sound of Dinette. Django's musical extravaganza!

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Django Reinhardt ‎– Memorial Album Vol.3, 1956 LP rip

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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Django Reinhardt ‎– The Great Artistry, 1953 LP rip

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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