Fwd: [Harp-L] Adler and Django got hot rhythm

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adler recorded four tunes, two takes each, with Django and the 
Quintette of the Hot Club of France in 1938 (Stéphane Grappelli 
played piano as it was felt violin would clash with the harmonica - 
same range, similar vibrato, sustain, etc.)

The tunes:

BODY AND SOUL
LOVER, COME BACK TO ME (TAKE 1) 
LOVER, COME BACK TO ME (TAKE 2) 
MY MELANCHOLY BABY - I GOT RHYTHM (TAKE 1)
I GOT RHYTHM (TAKE 2)

Note that both takes for all tunes did not survive - or 
were "privatized" into someone's collection.

The entire surviving session is available from Frémeaux Associates on 
their Intégrale (complete works) Django Reinhardt Vol. 8, a 2-CD set.

http://www.fremeaux.fr/pages/catalogue/fiches/pg_Rock'n-Roll-116.htm

This version of Body Soul is in C instead of the original key of Db - 
not sure why; Db is a relatively easy key on a C chromatic. I haven't 
investigated this thoroughly enough to ascertain which key of 
chromtic Adler used, but there is a good chance it's a C-harp. Adler 
did use non-C instruments in the 1930s, usually in the key of the 
tune being played.

Adler had such a luminescent sound - totally antithetical to jazz, 
and he frequently stated "I am not now, nor have I ever been, a jazz 
musician." This was by way of defending himself from jazz critics 
while playing much of the same then-popular repertoire of the 
songwriters of the period that jazz musicians played. But what a 
beautiful sound.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Howard Chandler 
<chandler@xxxx> wrote:

I've taken an interest in the guitar playing of Django Reinheardt, 
but 
in the process have discovered a recording of  him and Larry Adler 
playing "I got Rhythm".  I'e only heard the free sample on amazon, 
but 
it's a great rendition.  When the record arrives, I might give it a 
try, 
even though I'm not really a chrom player.  Does anyone know what key 
harp and position he's playing? 

Thanks

Howard Chandler
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