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Hot Club of San Francisco

Active since: 1988

Paul "Pazzo" Mehling

Leader, Guitar, Violin, Bass, Vocals

Paul Mehling, the leader of HCSF, has been dubbed the godfather of American Gypsy jazz. He discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in grammar school, and decades later the music that took root in his young soul finally bore fruit.

“I was born in Denver and grew up in what is now Silicon Valley when it was all fruit trees,” Mehling recalls. “My father was a record collector. I grew up with the music of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and all the swing era bands.

Original Gadjo

By Hot Club of San Francisco

Label: Hot Club Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Systeme D.; Dainty: Boop That Snoot; Manic Swing; Busy Bone; Blame It On The Asiago; Tune For Toots; Not Too Blue; Para Ti; Hwy 17; Running To You: Blues On The G String; I'll Call You Back; Praise D. Lloyd; Gazing; Fairweather Genius

Nelsen Hutchison

John Paul George & Django

By Hot Club of San Francisco

Label: Hot Club Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: All My Lovin'; Because; Michelle; I Will; Here, There, and Everywhere; You Won't See Me; The Fool on the Hill; If I Needed Someone; Julia; You Can't Do That; For No One; Don't Bother Me; Hey Jude/Duke and Dukie; Things We Said Today

Jazz & Blues Florida December 2012 Online Edition Posted

December 2, 2012

The new edition of Jazz & Blues Florida, Florida's best and only free online source for information on live jazz and blues in clubs, concerts and festivals, is now available. This issue marks four years of being totally online. The issue also offers a special promotional click-through entry for a free drawing for tickets to Steve ...

Hot Club Of San Francisco On Riverwalk Jazz This Week

May 17, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, acouistic guitarist Paul Mehling and the Hot Club of San Francisco join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band to celebrate the great Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. ...

Bohemian Maestro: Django Reinhardt and the Impressionists

By Hot Club of San Francisco

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Le Surdoue; Le Jongleur; Vendredi 13; Diminishing Blackness; Pour L'Egyptienne (excerpt); Les Chemins De L'Amour; Waltz Fro M.C. Escher; Bolero; Pour L'Egytienne (reprise); The Pearls; Nympheas; Messe/Improvisation; Improvisation No. 3; Choros Les Copains D'Abord; Clair De Lune.

Hot Club Cool Yule

By Hot Club of San Francisco

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Cool Yule; Don Rodolfo; Carol of the Bells; I'll Be Home for Christmas; Baby, It's Cold Outside; Djingle Bells; Sugar Rum Cherry; I Wonder as I Wander; March of the Toys; The Christmas Song; Santa Claus is Coming to Town; Auld Lang Syne.

Hot Club of San Francisco: Hot Club Cool Yule

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
November 7, 2009

The liner notes imply that this is the Christmas album Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli might have made, had they made one. Certainly the The Hot Club of San Francisco is a virtuosic group that specializes in conjuring that era (see their masterful Bohemian Maestro for a recent example). But there's a wealth of delicious humor ...

"Hot Club Cool Yule": New Hot Club San Francisco CD Due 10/27 from Azica Records

September 24, 2009

Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli never recorded an album of holiday music, but the Hot Club of San Francisco--who’ve long been inspired by those gypsy-jazz pioneers--always wished they had. “What Would Django Do?,” the Hot Club’s guiding principle, led happily in this case to the creation of Hot Club Cool Yule. It’s the 12th album in ...