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• #Django band in a box plus

The Gallic jazz had its own values and here is a perfect example of its apparent perfection.

I’ve always believed that, although Stéphane had the superior technical ability, Joe Venuti bested him in the violin stakes for his superior improvising. Swing Guitars has big band backing, a crass and dreadful mistake, which yet can’t damage the five stars. It gives way to a most propulsive Miss Annabelle Lee.

Liszt’s Liebestraum sounds as though it was written for Django and Steph.

#Django band in a box plus

But you can grab all the Wells tracks plus some excellent Bill Coleman on second-hand Affinity AFS 1004 on Amazon for a couple of quid. The perfect session with Rex and Barney is included whole, but sadly there was only room for one track from its equal, the sessions with Dickie Wells (Japanese Sandman). Big Boy Goudie plays well on his blues, sounding like an early Ed Hall, and Bill Coleman makes one wish for more. The remorseless power of his strumming, some of the most powerful punctuation in jazz, is illustrated in Body And Soul, casually tossed off in a version to challenge Hawk’s. And, to make your day, this CD probably does contain the best of his work, at least before the later period.

To find his fellows one must look in the box that contains the Parkers and Tatums of this music. As for his rhythm mastery one has only to listen to the way the rhythm section falls away when he leaves it and how it gets booted up the backside when he returns. Jazz was an American product but who in America could match Django? His joyous or reflective emoting was perfection. The Grappelli-Reinhardt pairing was so talented and original that it felt like a movement.