Pearl Django, Under Paris Skies - 52m 57s

Tracks & Durations

1. Seaside Adventure	2:11
2. Limehouse Blues	3:03
3. Under Paris Skies	3:13
4. I've Found A New Baby	4:00
5. Laura	3:14
6. Radio City Rythm	3:46
7. Plum Crumble	3:13
8. Cherokee	2:40
9. Nuages	5:19
10. Zingarelli	2:51
11. My Blue Heaven	3:14
12. Swing 39	2:51
13. Blues For Venetia	2:32
14. I'll See You In My Dreams	2:40
15. La rive gauche	5:00
16. New Metropolitan Swing	3:01

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Review

In the 1930s Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France took American jazz, Manouche melodies, and Parisian café music and blended them into an intoxicating style now known as Gypsy jazz. Pearl Django, a band from the Pacific Northwest, play music that's inspired by Reinhardt and Grappelli, but as their delightful versions of swing standards on Under Paris Skies show, they are more than mere copyists. When Pearl Django plays Hot Club standards like "Nuages" or "Swing 39," the guitar and fiddle solos retain the effortless bounce of the original versions, but the propulsive rhythms are pure American swing. In a nice change from the standard Hot Club stringed-instrument lineup of three guitars, violin, and bass, Pearl Django includes an accordion on four numbers, a deft touch that recalls the music's birth in the cafés and bistros of France. Under Paris Skies is a charming homage to the music of Reinhardt and Grappelli from a band that knows how to add their own personal twist to a classic style. --Michael Simmons

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