Favourite Django Solo?

gone

Great subject!

making sure this solo gets mentioned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbSrWj7Zt_s

The open second string that rings out after he does the vibrato too hard on 0.39!!!
And the rhythm guy!!!!! My fav, all together.

Gonzalo

rimm

Thats a cracker-And sounds almost playable! I am (attempting) to learn this tommorow.

rimm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7EGSxUbTM
This still makes me smile- its got everything this one. If aliens landed tommorow this is the track that I'd play them.

Matteo

Good topic indeed! The Swing Guitars solo is fantastic. And there's more from that session that I think is top class. Le quintette were hot in November 1947!

I was just thinking; my choice of favourites may be coloured by what I think of the tune itself. For example, I have always had a weak spot for I Surrender Dear and for My Melancholy Baby. Therefore it's interesting to hear what other Django fans regard as their favourites; it helps to discover new stuff I might have overlooked. 

Great to have Gonzalo here, by the way! I'm pretty new here and didn't realise first who "gone" was.

That little mistake at 0:39 is funny. A similar thing happens in Clair de lune, at 1:16.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdjPZQnP ... ata_player

Bones

Hey Rimm,

Did you ever transcribe that version of Swing guitars?

Ditto what Gonzalo said about the rhythm!! Awesome!

I was going to vote for this one (Dark Eyes version).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-MWLJvGvM

thanks

Svanis1337

@ Matteo
In the 1953 Confessin' at 01:38 the mistake appears again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biioK_L-Hvk

And I just listened to Insensiblement from 1953. Just wow. :shock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iitckSWqvpY

Matteo

Thanks Svanis! I'll have to check out those later, though, they won't play on my device. "Just wow" sounds alarming. :shock:

icyhot

My favorites:
I'll see you in my dreams
Appel direct
Charleston
12th year
Billet-doux
Running wild
Undecided (opening solo)

Lango-Django

I'll see you in my dreams
Sheik of Araby
mystery Pacific
Echoes of France (not just the solo; the whole marvellous thing)
Swing 42
honeysuckle Rose

frater

Although he' s not soloing there, strictly speaking, what he does in "Ou Es-Tu Mon Amour" is simply supernatural to my eyes.