Django Reinhardt, whom in 2010 marks the centenary of his birth, is the first jazz musician native to Europe that had a similar influence to that of the great American artists. His music is the result of the merger between the swing and gypsy musical traditions of Eastern Europe, what is known in English the name of Gypsy jazz and French as Jazz Manouche (Gypsy Jazz). Reinhardt, despite having been rendered the fourth and fifth fingers of his left hand following a fire he suffered in 1928, revolutionized the sound of the guitar in the jazz just before they started using amplification. On the basis of a bass, two rhythm guitars and the usual violin Stéphane Grappelli, Django develops a lively music and extremely flexible. His harmonic concepts were startling for their time. In this selection we are presenting today in Japan has made several studio recordings between 1935 and 1939 specially chosen with his usual quintet where it looks Stephane Grappelly, plus two interpretations of Django's just that deserve special attention. Other issues with American musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Rex Stewart and Barney Bigard. What is remarkable about this issue is the clarity of the sound because the Japanese technicians used a special technology to process the masters with a fantastic result.
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