My band plays 1900-1940s stuff and gypsy jazz is heavy in the rotation.
-AJ
> From: Matthew Snook <matt@snooksband.com>
> Reply-To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:19:38 -0700
> To: <resoguit-l@elistas.com>
> Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] Django tunes!
>
> I've been wanting to step out and start doing gypsy jazz, but without folks to
> play with, the incentive was just not there. Picking buddies are just very
> few around Eastern Oregon (unless you like 50's country). Well...
>
> We do a blues-folk-grass-whatever jam on Tuesdays down at Ten Depot (a pub
> here in La Grande). Sam the bass player had hinted strongly about doing some
> Django tunes, but the next week nobody had done much, so the next time he
> brought in the chart for Nuages. I took that to be an even stronger hint, so
> Išve finally broken the ice and learned both Nuages and "Peche a la Mouche"
> (fly fishing?) as my first Django tunes. Great fun! Itšs a whole new world!
>
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