Crazy Rhythm

Coleman Hawkins and His All-Star Jam Band · 1937 · Paris, with Benny Carter and Django Reinhardt

Context

Recorded in Paris on April 28, 1937, this track was released with "Honeysuckle Rose" on the record Swing no. 1, the first release of the label founded by Charles Delaunay and Hugues Panassié. Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, who wrote part of the arrangement, play alongside Alix Combelle, André Ekyan, Stéphane Grappelli on piano and Django Reinhardt.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• Star Dust (Coleman Hawkins, 1937) (1937)
• Honeysuckle Rose (Coleman Hawkins) (1937)
• Body and Soul (1939)
• Netcha's Dream (1935)
• What Harlem Is to Me (1935)

Sources

• philschaapjazz.com

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