Django on Film

Teddy Dupont · May 2006

If you click on Django on Film you will see some short but excellent quality film of Django playing at Bal Tabarin. It is about ¾ the way through the film and is not only far better quality than I have ever seen before of the Bal Tabarin footage but also includes some longer than previously seen close-up sequences of his fingers in action.

The music playing towards the end, although indistinct, sounds to be Django soloing with his Orchestra and these passages have never been released on record.

Anyone know how to copy this?

Teddy Dupont · May 2006

TedGottsegen wrote:

Wow...that is the best quality I've seen, too. They're playing "Shorty George" which is also interesting...that's a classic Basie dance tune.

.......and they are then about to launch into "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" before the music cuts out. The opening tune is of course "Night & Day" and that version is not on record either. That's obviously Joseph on rhythm guitar in the opening dance sequences and then he is seen clearly with Django, and it sounds like Charles Delaunay making those odd vocal interjections to me.