Swing 42

Django Reinhardt · 1942 (year to be confirmed)

Context

Track recorded in Paris by Django Reinhardt with the Quintette du Hot Club de France, in a lineup where Hubert Rostaing's clarinet appears alongside two guitars, double bass, and drums. According to the MusicBrainz database, the session dates from September 1941, not 1942 as the title might suggest.

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).

By the same artist

• Nuages (1940)
• Bill Coleman Blues (1937)
• Anouman (1953)

Sources

• brainz.musichoarders.xyz

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