Django Reinhardt At The Movies CD Stardust Memories Sweet & Lowdown Lancombe

Django Reinhardt, the father of all jazz guitarists, has fascinated countless players from across the whole spectrum of popular and classical styles. No jazz musician can surely have expressed themselves more eloquently than Django. The breathtaking sophistications of his playing style have obvious cinematic potential, Woody Allen and Louis Malle are among the directors who have made use of his music in their films

Stardust Memories was released at the height of Woody Allen’s popularity. Django’s music is central in a historic jazz score

Two decades later Woody Allen would pay tribute to the jazz guitar with Sweet and Lowdown, a re-working of a project entitled Jazz Baby that he had written, and shelved, thirty years earlier. Sean Penn plays the flawed Emmet Ray, by his own admission the second best jazz guitarist in the world behind Django, whom he worships 

Lacombe, Lucien is Louis Malle’s gem of a film about French collaborators during the second world war. Django Reinhardt’s music is used almost exclusively and to great effect; combining pre-war recordings the guitarist made with Stéphane Grappelli, with the recordings made during the 1940s with a clarinet player, which help evoke the dark mood of occupation

Stardust Memories (1980)

1. I'll See You In My Dreams 
2. Body And Soul

Sweet And Lowdown (1999)

3. When Day Is Done 
4. Limehouse Blues 
5. Liebestraum No. 3 
6. Mystery Pacific 
7. Out Of Nowhere 
8. Shine 
9. All Of Me 
10. Sweet Georgia Brown 
11. Avalon 
12. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 
13. Just A Gigalo 

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

14. Minor Swing 
15. Manoir De Mes Revés 
16. Nuages 
17. Douce Ambiance 
18. Fleur D'Ennui 
19. Lentement, Mademoiselle 
20. Rhythme Futur 
21. Belleville 
22. Troublant Bolero 
23. Cavalerie 
24. Blues Clair 
25. Swing 41 
26. Echoes Of France