Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:24
Size: 141.4 MB
Styles: Gypsy jazz, Swing
Year: 2006
Art: Front
[5:34] 1. Don't Panic
[2:57] 2. Place De Broukere
[4:59] 3. Giselle - Waltz D'Entichement
[4:01] 4. I'm Not Impressed
[4:58] 5. Caravan
[5:13] 6. And I Love Her
[5:33] 7. Round Midnight
[6:11] 8. Jitterbug Waltz
[3:15] 9. Armando's Rumba
[5:16] 10. Manoir De Mes Rêves
[2:33] 11. Flambeé Montalbanaise
[4:04] 12. Melodie Au Crepscule
[3:36] 13. My Walkin' Stick
[3:09] 14. Parfum
Paul Mehling, the leader of HCSF and the man dubbed the godfather of American gypsy jazz, discovered the music of Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in grammar school. Decades later the music that took root in his young soul finally bore fruit.
“I was born in Denver and grew up in what is now Silicon Valley, when it was all fruit trees,” Mehling recalls. “My father was a record collector. I grew up with the music of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller and all the swing era bands. He’d come home and turn on the stereo and, at a year old, I’d sit in front of the speakers and soak up the music. To this day, I get a sense of déjà vu whenever I hear a song I heard back then. When I was older, I became a discipline problem because I wanted to stay up all night and listen to records. Being exposed to swing at and early age predisposed me to playing this kind of music.
“I had an older sister who turned me onto rock’n’roll. When I was six, we saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and it was like getting hit by lightening. I said, ‘I wanna do that - make the girls scream and give people the buzz I get from hearing the music.’ The Beatles made music guitar-centric and I picked up the guitar. I tried playing in rock bands, but it didn’t work for me. The music wasn’t satisfying. I liked the acoustic guitar better and learned classical music, but that wasn’t what I wanted either. Then I heard Django: three guitars, bass, and violin and they sounded and acted like a rock band. I saw pictures of them and they looked sharp, sophisticated and mysterious.
QHCSF
