Video Django Reinhardt - The Best Of Django Reinhardt

THE BEST OF DJANGO REINHARDT - part 1

also featuring Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Bill Coleman, Eddie South, Stephane Grappelli, Freddy Taylor…and others


COLEMAN HAWKINS AND HIS ALL-STAR JAM BAND: Coleman Hawkins, Alix Combelle (ts), Benny Carter (as,tp), Andre Ekyan (as), Stephane Grappelli (piano), Django Reinhardt (g), Eugene D’Hellemmes (b), Tommy Benford (dm) - april 28, 1937

1 Honeysuckle Rose (Waller - Razaf)

2 Crazy Rhythm (Meyer - Kahn)

3 Out of Nowhere (Heyman - Greer)

4 Sweet Georgia Brown (Pinkard - Bernie - Casey)


REX STEWART AND HIS FEETWARMERS: Rex Stewart (cnt), Barney Bigard (cl, dm), Django Reinhardt (g), Billy Taylor (b) - april 5, 1939

5 Solid Old Man (Stewart - Bigard - Taylor)

6 Montmartre (Stewart)

7 Finesse (Taylor)

8 I Know that You Know (Youmans - Caldwell)

9 Low Cotton (Stewart)


EDDIE SOUTH (vn) acc. by: Django Reinhardt (g) - september 29, 1937

10 Eddie's Blues (South - Reinhardt)

Same. Add Wilson Myers (b) - same session

11 Sweet Georgia Brown Pinkartd - Bernie - Casey)

Same. add Michel Warlop (vn), Stephane Grappelli (vn), Roger Chaput (g)

- same session

12 Lady Be Good (Gershwin)

South, Reinhardt and Paul Cordonnier (b) - same session

13 Dinah (Akst - Lewis - Young)

14 Daphne' (Reinhardt)


BILL COLEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA: Bill Coleman (tp, voc), Frank “Big Boy”

Goodie (cl, ts), Christian Wagner (cl, as), Emil Stern (p), Django Reinhardt (g), Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (dm) - november 19, 1937

15 I Ain't Got Nobody (Williams - Graham)

16 Baby Won't You Please Come Home (Williams - Warfield)

17 Big Boy Blues (Goodie)

18 Swing Guitars (Reinhardt - Grappelli)

Coleman and Reinhardt only - same session

19 Bill Coleman Blues (Coleman)


FREDDY TAYLOR (voc) acc. by QUINTETTE DU HOT CLUB DE FRANCE - Stephane Grappelli (vn), Django Reinhardt (solo g), Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre Ferret (rh.g), Lucien Simoens (b) - may 4, 1936

20 I'se Muggin' (Smith)

21 After You've Gone (Creamer - Layton)

22 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Fields - McHugh)


Same. Louis Vola (b), replaces Simoens - october 15, 1936

23 Nagasaki (Warren - Dixon)

24 Georgia on My Mind (Carmichael - Gorrell)

25 Shine (Mack - Brown - Dabney)


All tracks recorded in Paris, France