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Investigation into Django's nonstandard chords on "Out of Nowhere"
Just in case you guys haven't seen this:
It's some great detective work into why Django's recording with Coleman Hawkins uses some voicings that he theoretically wasn't able to play.
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He certainly makes a compelling case for the reasoning behind that tuning and his voicings seem to match what is on the recorded track. Bravo to Gilles! I've appreciated his channel since he put up that interview of Roger Chaput as taped in the 90s by Dominique Cravic. Such a great treasure and he did a great job adding photos, etc to bring Roger's stories to life!
That's brilliant finding from Gill. Only Django could've done that. "The hell I can't" attitude, genius.
But then again, people are quick to say Django couldn't do this or that. Here I'm playing the same voicing in question with Django's handicap in mind.
It's not easy to grab and it took me quite a few repositioning the fingers until it sounded clean. But then that's me. And when I first tried to grab the classic Django 6/9 voicing with the thumb in the bass and using the middle finger to play two notes, 5th and the root on D string, that felt impossible at first. To me, it's likely that Django would play this voicing no problem whatsoever.
Gill mentioned various amazing intros that Django composed. One of them is Time on my hands that I learned recently. It's hard to believe that he played that having his handicap in mind. But obviously he did, the notes are there. He found a way. As I feel his attitude was truly "the hell I can't!!!"
I totally buy the idea that he broke a string.
Gilles is a real detail guy and this looks to me like a great addition to our knowledge about the minutiae of Django's playing.
At Django a Montmartre this year he gave us a really in depth analysis of the history of the Night and Day progression. He also graciously jammed with us in the evening.