For Django

by Joe Pass

For Django cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Pacific Jazz
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:06
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Jazz guitarist Joe Pass pays a sophisticated tribute to the legendary Django Reinhardt. The cool jazz arrangements avoid direct mimicry, instead utilizing a drumless quartet to deliver intricate, swinging bebop interpretations of the gypsy jazz pioneer's repertoire.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, acoustic, melodic, virtuosic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Django (3:20)
  2. Rosetta (3:05)
  3. Nuages (2:32)
  4. For Django (2:52)
  5. Night And Day (3:44)
  6. Fleur D'Ennui (2:54)
  7. Insensiblement (3:11)
  8. Cavalerie (4:23)
  9. Django's Castle (Manoir De Mes Reves) (3:46)
  10. Limehouse Blues (2:14)

Credits

  • Joe Pass - primary artist, guitar, written-by
  • Jim Hughart - bass
  • Colin Bailey - drums
  • John Pisano - guitar
  • Mort Fega - sleeve notes
  • John Lewis - written-by
  • Earl Hines - written-by
  • Claude Debussy - written-by

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