Top 10 Jazz Manouche Records

[TedGottsegen]

An oldie but goodie, something that I never get bored talking about. This is Top 10 Jazz Manouche albums, could be Django, could be anyone. The question is this: You've been exiled to a shack in the hills for life. You get food and water and spare guitars strings brought in. You must arrive with your instrument and 10 albums (record, CD, what have you). Which are they?

For me, in no particular order:
1. Jacques Montagne Quartet
2. Tchan-Tchou - Guitar Partie
3. Bousquet - Hommage a Django
4. Django - Verve Masters 38
5. Les Manouches EP - Mondine & Niglo
6. Schnuckenack Reinhardt - Musik Deustcher Zigeuner 1
7. Häns'che Weiss with Titi Winterstein - Swinging with Django
8. Hot Club da Sinti
9. Rosenberg Trio - Seresta
10. Alma Sinti - Rhythme Gitan

[justjack]

Ted, you've just given me my birthday shopping list. Many thanks.

[djangology]

I couldn't resist to chime in on this one. My favorites are, in order:

1. Bireli Lagrene - Gypsy Project & Friends
2. Bireli Lagrene - Gypsy Project
3. Tchavalo Schmitt - Alors?...Voila! (2000)
4. Fapy Lafertin & Le Jazz: Hungaria (classic rhythm ornaments)
5. Ultra Swing - Actual Size
6. Romane - Impair & Valse (1999)
7. Sinti - Self Titled (featuring Jimmy Rosenburg) (1996)
8. Pearl Django - Avalon (2000)
9. Angelo DeBarre - Gypsy Guitars (1996)
10. Matelo Ferret/Jo Privat - Manouche Partie
11. Stephane Grapelli w/ Django on Compact Jazz (out of print?)

[justjack]

I still don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to most of these guys, but by some strange coincidence(?), I'd just put on 'Alors?...Voila' before I checked this post. Eerie, ain't it? Just came in the mail today.
More as the elbow/ass situation clears.

[djangology]

just make sure you stick that disc in your computer because there are a few videos on that one that will blow your mind...

[justjack]

T'was at the top of my list. The first, though, was a bit of a chore I must say. Some of the later stuff, though, was what inspired my Rookie post about the Infamous Tremolo SlideUp. It's that same sort of too-fast-to-process stuff you find in the Django clip from LobsterFilms (I think that's where it's from).

[Justin]

Gypsy Swing: The Nashville Tribute to Django Reinhardt
Django's Blues - Django Reinhardt
Gypsy Project - Bireli Lagrene
Under Paris Skies - Pearl Django
Latcho Drom Soundtrack
Django et compagnie - Django Reinhardt
The Best of Django Reinhardt - Django Reinhardt
Clare de Lune - The Hot Club of San Francisco
Alors?... Voila! - Tchavalo Schmitt
Pearl Django - Mystery Pacific

[Salwa]

Cap'n! Any chance of reviving some of the classic threads? Desert Island Discs, How and When, etc. Not that we have to repeat ourselves, but I still have unanswered questions, for cryin' out loud! For starters, who the hell should I be listening to outside of Le Homme? Which albums? I'm dyin' hea!