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Swing Gitan: The Django Reinhardt NY Festival, Live at Birdland 2002
Label: Vertical Jazz Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Swing Gitan; What Is This Thing Called Love?; New York in November; Minor Swing;
Nuages; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Manoir des mes Reves; China Boy; Stompin' at
Decca; Montagne Sainte Genevieve; Lady Be Good; Pretext.
Various Artists: Swing Gitan: The Django Reinhardt NY Festival, Live at Birdland 2002
by Brian P. Lonergan
From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django Reinhardt Festival, live at Birdland in 2002, the music--jangling guitars, pumping accordion, swinging violins, and wailing reeds--is so energetic, exuberant, and ...