This is the fifth in a new series released on the French label Fremaux.
This series under the direction of Daniel Nevers will become the definitive Django collection, incorporating many rare and previously unreleased tracks, including radio performances and out takes.

This Double CD also comes with a 40 page booklet in English and French containing many interesting photos. If your seriously interested in Django or are looking for a particular track, this is the series for you.

From the liner notes by Daniel Nevers Whereas volume 5 closed with the relics of the Quintet's first known radio broadcast, this collection opens with the following one, which came on the air less than two weeks later It would seem that their initial transmission of 29 May '37, requisitioned by the Beeb, actually went further afield, as Robert J. Gstell claimed to have heard it in Berlin (Connecticut, USA). This amateur guitarist was totally struck by Django's dexterity and, pushing the big names to one side (Satchmo, Duke, the Count etc.), he began specialising in his works.
Their second programme, on the night of 12-13th June t937, came via the American CBS network. It was not only a "coast-to-coast" broadcast, it was also no doubt picked up in England, as that was where the recorded evidence was discovered twenty old years ago. It didn't take place in the usual Madison studios, but in a theatre near Broadway, hired by the firm for the first anniversary of "The Saturday Night Swing Club" show, presented by Paul Douglas and Mel Mien. The show was on the air for three years, and honoured many famous white musicians such as The Original Dixiland Jazz Band, Bunny Berigan, Adrian Rollini, Jack Teagarden, Red Nichols, Manny Klein, Wingy Manone and the Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Glen Gray. Numerous black artists also took the microphone including Chick Webb, Fats Waller, Stuff Smith, Teddy Wilson, Mary-Lou Williams, Willie Smith, Henry Alien, Earl Hines, Hazel Scott, Billie Holiday Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. Foreigners, however, were seldom heard on this powerful network, thus the importance of the ten-minute air space given to the improvised Montmartre studios in Paris.
The CBS correspondent from the London branch, Ed R. Morrow, was amid the commotion preceding the live performance, and he had difficulty in pronouncing the musicians' names and the titles (which explains why Bricktop became Break Up). There is however, a degree of mystery hovering over this particular programme. In Charles Delaunay's book, "Django, mon Frere" (published in English under the title, "Django Reinhardt"), the author refers to the Quintet's 1937 participation in a trans-Atlantic air show, he states that it took place in the "Big Apple", whereas Morrow, the commentator, refers to the "Bricktop Cabaret". It is true that the owner of the "Bricktop", the black American singer, Miss Ada Smith (nicknamed "Bricktop"), opened a second cabaret in 1937 named the "Big Apple", which was frequented for a long while by the Quintet. Another curious anecdote is that Delaunay makes reference to the Django/Stephane duo giving each other the cold shoulder due to Eddie South's arrival in Paris, as Django took great delight in playing with the black violinist. The problem is that on the night of the 12-13th June 1937, South hadn't yet arrived in Paris.
According to Delaunay, when the musicians were introduced live as "Stephane Grappelly and his Hot Four”. Django became livid then rose with the intention of abandoning the party. The Gypsy need firm persuasion for him to compehend that a mistake had been made.......................