Club Django Toronto CDs
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"La Gitane" The new CD is available at our gigs and also by mail. Contact André at (416) 699-6342 or by email Review by Geoff Chapman, The Toronto Star,
Thursday July 29 2004
A
classy entry from one of the
best groups involved in the gypsy swing music polished
so brilliantly by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, this 14-tune recording shows the benefit of two relatively recent recruits. Russian-born violinist Rodion Boshoer and veteran Gerry Duligal on accordion mean fatter textures and more emotional weight though the playing is never low on furious energy. There are rarer pieces here,like the lovely "Valse des Niglos" and the title piece waltz (La Gitane) neatly arranged by lead guitarist Johnny Farrell, plus a new one "280 SE" that's smooth and fleet. The band, with founderAndré Séguinot and Tony Oldland on rhythm guitars and Abbey Sholzberg handling bass,is up for the occasion, its dashing treatments of "Limehouse Blues" and "Latcho Drom" contrasting with the mellower " I'm Confessin" and "Exactly Like You" - and it's all done with only two Django pieces, "Daphné" and the inevitable "Nuages". |
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"A Tribute to the Quintet of the Hot Club de France". This CD received the Canadian Collectors' Congress Award for Best Traditional/Classic Jazz Album of 2000! We believe
this to be the first entirely "Made in Canada"
release of Gypsy Swing. |
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