composers?

melodymaker

I'd love to hear it!
I like the way Matelo does it.. not as flashy as the modern gypsy-jazz versions. does anyone have any other early montagne recordings? It's a great tune. valse, pure and simple.

scot

According to Elios Ferre when he was asked about this (in a recent magazine article):

"There is no ambiguity here. These (tunes) are "valses a Django", composed when he was 16 or 17 years old. There is even one, "Gagoug", which he sometimes played as a fox-trot, and there is a recording of Django playing it in that manner. So there is no need to add legend to legend - these are certainly Django's waltzes. And it's my father who made them known."

I always believed that these compositions (and the recording in question) were the work of the Ferrets. But this settles it for me - I had it wrong.