Dinah
Context
Standard that the Quintette du Hot Club de France recorded at its first commercial session, in late December 1934 in Paris, in an Ultraphone studio in Montparnasse. Played on strings only, with Grappelli's violin and Django Reinhardt's guitar, it opens a series of four sides including "Tiger Rag" and "Lady Be Good."
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz. Among the origins and influences of Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz: Swing, big bands, Jazz in France (interwar years).