Django Reinhardt - Nuages - VINYL LP

Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintet Du Hot Club de France Avec Stephane Grapelli

Mozart's Divertimento in E flat, K563 plays a centralrole in the musical life of our ensemble. It's musicalcomplexity and the depth of expression whichMozart achieves through only three voices areseemingly miraculous it is one of those pieces whichconstantly rewards rehearsal. One simply never getstired of playing it!When the opportunity to record this masterpiecearose, we were faced with the challenge of whatto play alongside it. Our dear friend Rob Fokkenshad written two short movements for string triowhich seemed to fit beautifully with Mozart's music Rob's translucent harmonic and rhythmic styleoffers unique expressive possibilities. The chanceto commission the great Julian Joseph was notto be missed, and his work, Bring it!, wonderfullydemonstrates his brilliance and lyricism, and thesubtly of his harmonic language. We sincerely hopeyou enjoy listening to the music on this album asmuch as we loved preparing it!

This presents the complete original LP Djangology, which was compiled in 1961 (less than a decade after Django Reinhardt's untimely death in 1953 at the age of 43). Although the album cover claimed to feature the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, it actually presented music from a series of 1949 dates that reunited Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli in Rome along with a local rhythm section. 180-GRAM COLORED BLUE VINYL - THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 3 BONUS TRACKS - Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris' prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE. LIMITED EDITION