Artist: The Hot Club of San Francisco
Album: 30 Years
Genre: Swing, Gypsy Jazz
Released: 2018
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- 'Round Midnight (5:28)
- I Love Paris (5:24)
- La Gitane (4:12)
- Theme from Gypsyland (Nuages) (4:33)
- Jonesin' (4:36)
- Alle prese con una verde milonga (6:23)
- Messe: Improvisation (6:22)
- Choros (4:18)
- Vendredi 13 (2:54)
- Claire de Lune (6:38)
- Because (3:36)
- If I Needed Someone (4:18)
- Milord (7:27)
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Explicitly modeled on Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli’s Quintet du Hot Club de France, the Hot Club of San Francisco has now been purveying both classic 1930s-style Gypsy jazz and modern variants on it for 30 years. In celebration of that milestone, the group has self-released a survey that draws on its previous six recordings. (Unfortunately, no detailed information is provided in the liner notes about where each of the tracks came from.) The program nicely demonstrates both how good this group is at delivering straight-ahead old-school hot jazz and at the ways in which they’ve gotten creative with it: a sturdily swinging midtempo rendition of “‘Round Midnight” is something of a revelation, as is the vocal version of “Nuages.” There’s a wind arrangement of Reinhardt’s “Messe,” and a Gypsified version of the Beatles tune “Because.” If your library doesn’t already own all of this group’s previous albums, then consider this one as an introduction.