| Django Festival Allstars 2012 / Live At Birdland |
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| Album: | Live At Birdland | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Django Festival Allstars 2012 | Added: | Jun 2013 | |
| Label: | Three's A Crowd | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-06-09 | Pull Date: | 2013-08-11 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jul 28 | Jul 14 | Jul 7 | Jun 30 | Jun 23 | Jun 16 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 21, 2013: | Fight or Flight Manoir De Mes Reves | 4. | Jul 03, 2013: | ModernTek Swing Gitan | |
| 2. | Jul 13, 2013: | Music Casserole Manoir De Mes Reves | 5. | Jul 01, 2013: | no way to say Nuages, Bronson's Song | |
| 3. | Jul 04, 2013: | Rebop Them There Eyes | 6. | Jun 27, 2013: | Rebop Camping Car |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2013-06-09 | ||
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DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS 2012: Live at Birdland Three’s a Crowd, 2013 GYPSY SWING – The exuberant, chunky, guitar-and-violin led brand of swing music pioneered by Django Reinhardt in the Paris cafés of the 1930s is alive and well. Several of the genre’s top practitioners perform in this live set from the annual Django Festival in New York, playing straight-up gypsy swing but also bringing in Parisian musette, Balkan dance, Brazilian rhythm and other global flavors. Some very nice stuff. Fo’s Picks: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13 1. 3:29 – upbeat accordion kicks off a chunky stomp and has a great solo 2. 3:37 – sweet violin-led ballad, sways gently 3. 4:06 – exotic solo violin sets up an upbeat bouncy Balkan-style tune 4. 6:23 – alto saxophone leads a lazy take on Django’s classic ballad 5. 3:33 – lightly swinging violin & guitar dance over strings 6. 5:20 – gently funky feel, like a road tune from a ’70s movie 7. 5:48 – accordina (mouth organ) ballad: relaxed and daydreamy 8. 5:40 – standard swings gently, guitar & violin solos go up high 9. 4:19 – uptempo fun for violin & accordion, based on “Caravan” 10. 3:28 – slinky, mysterious gypsy tune: emotive violin & guitar 11. 4:01 – lightly funky bounce: fine guitar solo in the middle 12. 3:17 – breezy waltz with a strong swing: accordion/guitar fly merrily 13. 5:03 – wheee! a very happy swing romp, great solos all around 14. 4:21 – catchy, jaunty retro-modern melody with a happy, thumping rhythm 15. 5:51 – well-known tune: gypsy-meets-bossanova sound, cello mellows it [ Fo ] - 9 June 2013 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Swing Gitan | 8. | Out Of Nowhere | |||
| 2. | For Pierre | 9. | Camping Car | |||
| 3. | Balkanic Dance | 10. | Song For Ettore | |||
| 4. | Nuages | 11. | Bronson's Song | |||
| 5. | Valse En Exil | 12. | Pat's Waltz | |||
| 6. | El Dorado | 13. | Them There Eyes | |||
| 7. | Manoir De Mes Reves | 14. | Melissa | |||
| 15. | Bossa Dorado | |||||