Bill Coleman Blues

Bill Coleman & Django Reinhardt · 1937 · Duo trompette-guitare, Swing SW-42

Context

Recorded on November 19, 1937, as a duo by American trumpeter Bill Coleman, based in Paris, and Django Reinhardt. The record was issued on Swing (SW-42), the label founded by Charles Delaunay and Hugues Panassié. Coleman, who arrived in Paris in 1935, was then playing with Willie Lewis and His Entertainers.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in France (interwar years), Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in France: Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras, Swing, big bands.

By the same artist

• Nuages (1940)
• Swing 42 (1942)
• Anouman (1953)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Bill Coleman (trumpeter)

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