Mystery Pacific

DjangoDjango

I got the django book with 81 compositions and there is one really wierd tune called "Mystery Pacific". I realy want to know how it sounds like, I searched youtube but I couldnt find nothing.

Jack

You can hear a clip of it here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Django+Reinhar ... ry+Pacific

It's basically a 'train song'...inspired by locomotives. You can find it on any number of ultra-cheap Django anthologies. Fun tune!

best,
Jack.

Tom Landman

It's Django's take on Duke Ellington's "Daybreak Express".

DjangoDjango

I thought it was a stuppid song but it's pretty funny.
I like it.

spatzo

Usually told to be inspired by :

ARTHUR HONEGGER
Pacific 231
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Mariss Jansons
EMI CDC5 55122-2
tr. 7
6'23

spatzo

Sample of ...

http://www.amazon.com/Honegger-Pacific- ... B0000034W8

spatzo

Or you can download it ...

http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_dow ... 0ukcp0n40w

spatzo

In Duke and His World : (quote) : In Daybreak Express based on the chords of Tiger Rag - Ellington musically portrays a steam engine leaving the raylroad station accelerating to top speed, blowing its whistle, slowing down, and then coming to a halt- all in three minutes.

The french composer Arthur Honegger attempted a similar feat in his composition "Pacific 231" A member of the Boston Symphony who doubled as a jazz musician recalled playing the work in a student orchestra. After listening to the Ellington recording, he told me, "Duke did it better"
(end quote)

Shawn

Mystery Pacific has one of my favorite solo's that Django ever played, not to mention the rather odd playing by Grappelli. It's one of his pieces that stands out amongst the others just like Fleche D'Or, Rhythm Futur, Deccaphonie, and various others.

PS- While were on the subject...if anyone has a transcription of the Django's solo it would be much appreciated!

spatzo

Ellington's Daybreak sample ...

DjangoDjango

Hee, thats not right. :?


I read somewhere that Duke Ellington version was made in 1953.
Django's version was made between 1936-1937.
So I think Duke Ellington got inspired by Django's Myster Pacific

Lol