David Grisman releases compilation album of Django compositions

BillDaCostaWilliams

New Music from Acoustic Disc - We Love Django!

Acoustic Disc has announced the release of We Love Django! in download format only.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/content/951-New-Music-from-Acoustic-Disc-We-Love-Django%21

Track Listing

• Django (prologue) - Don Stiernberg
• Swing '48 - Stephane Wrembel Trio with David Grisman
• Daphne - Oscar Alemán
• Bolero de Django - David Grisman Quintet*
• Swing '39 - Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore
• Tears - Frank Vignola
• Blue Drag - Eric Bogart and Stringology*
• Anouman - David Grisman and Denny Zeitlin
• At the Jimmy's Bar - Stephane Wrembel Trio with David Grisman
• Improvisation No. 1 - John Jorgensen
• Oriental Shuffle - Pete Toyne Trio*
• Swing Mineur - Svend Asmussen with David Grisman Quartet
• Minor Swing - Stephane Grappelli and David Grisman
• Douce Ambience - Eric Bogart and Stringology*
• Nuages - David Grisman Quintet
• Swing '42 - Martin Taylor and David Grisman
• Mabel - Stephane Wrembel Trio with David Grisman
• Manoir de Mes Reves - Stephane Grappelli with the Diz Disley Trio
• Django (epilogue) - Don Stiernberg

This unique celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt features 16 of his original compositions interpreted by a variety of stellar artists including his partner Stephane Grappelli, his rival and friend, Oscar Alemán and his contemporary, Svend Asmussen. Also featured are performances by Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore, David Grisman, Tony Rice, John Jorgensen, Frank Vignola, Stephane Wrembel, Denny Zeitlin and others.

This collection was produced by David Grisman and gleaned from his personal archives and the Acoustic Disc catalog. It includes five previously unissued tracks and was mastered in the sonically superior Hi-Definition format. As David says in his notes, "Django Reinhardt's astonishing musicianship always hits the mark, technically and emotionally, and continues to inspire generation after generation of players and listeners. We Love Django!"

Teddy Dupont

To be pedantic, there are only 15 Django compositions. Neither "Blue Drag" nor "At the Jimmy's Bar" were composed by Django. The latter is often thought to be a Django composition but it is actually by Philippe Brun.

Teddy Dupont

But who actually wrote "Blue Drag"? Josef Myrow or Fletcher Allen? Depends on which source you believe.

BillDaCostaWilliams

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/114406#Comment_114406

That's interesting (to me at least - we play it regularly at weekly jams) as I'd always assumed it was Myrow.

In the 1932 version by Earl Hines

https://secondhandsongs.com/work/211948/versions#nav-entity

the label credits it to him.

Teddy Dupont

I don't think any of my CDs or LPs list Myrow as the composer. It is either Allen or Django. I have found Myrow, Allen and Django listed on YouTube.

Russell Letson

As nice as this Django-centric compilation is, I'm even more drawn to the rest of Grisman's download catalogue: Svend Asmussen, Grappelli, George Barnes, Jethro Burns, an early Peter Ostroushko I was unaware of. . . .

Thanks to decades of rummaging around, I have some of this material in my library, but there's stuff in there that I either missed or that was never released. I see hours of on-line rummaging in my future.