Swing 39 [Jazz in Paris]

by Django Reinhardt

Swing 39 [Jazz in Paris] cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Gitanes
  • Country: France
  • Length: 50:01
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A volume of the French Jazz in Paris series devoted to Django Reinhardt's 1939 recordings. 'Swing 39' reissues the guitarist's pre-war Paris sessions, central documents of jazz manouche.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, virtuosic, improvisation, acoustic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Jeepers Creepers (3:13)
  2. Jeepers Creepers (3:13)
  3. Swing 39 (3:18)
  4. Japanese Sandman (2:39)
  5. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (3:01)
  6. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (3:07)
  7. Tea For Two (2:50)
  8. Tea For Two (2:51)
  9. My Melancholy Baby (3:20)
  10. Time On My Hands (2:40)
  11. Twelfth Year (2:37)
  12. Twelfth Year (2:40)
  13. My Melancholy Baby (2:46)
  14. Japanese Sandman (3:05)
  15. Tea For Two (3:12)
  16. I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (2:44)
  17. Hungaria (2:45)

Credits

  • Django Reinhardt - primary artist, lead guitar, written-by
  • St茅phane Grappelli - violin, written-by
  • Harry Warren - written-by
  • Johnny Mercer - written-by
  • Raymond Egan - written-by
  • Richard Whiting - written-by
  • Gus Kahn - written-by
  • Walter Donaldson - written-by
  • Irving Caesar - written-by
  • Vincent Youmans - written-by
  • Ernie Burnett - written-by
  • George A. Norton - written-by
  • Harold Adamson - written-by
  • Mack Gordon - written-by

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