Biréli Lagrene - Gipsy Project

Styles: Guitar And Gypsy Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:11
Size: 103,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:43)  1. Blues Clair
(2:06)  2. Coquette
(3:38)  3. Si Tu Savais
(2:36)  4. Belleville
(2:59)  5. Daphne (Version Longue)
(5:10)  6. Je Suis Seul Ce Soir
(2:12)  7. Swing 42
(2:29)  8. Embraceable You
(3:40)  9. Vous Et Moi
(2:56) 10. Festival 48
(2:45) 11. Viper's Dream
(1:59) 12. What Is This Thing Called Love
(3:34) 13. La Mer
(1:51) 14. Limehouse Blues
(2:27) 15. Daphne (Version Courte)

Gypsy guitarists like Biréli Lagrène grow up learning Django Reinhardt's solos the way Americans cut their teeth on "Louie, Louie" or "Stairway to Heaven." Perhaps that's why Gypsy Project, Lagrène's first recording of acoustic, Hot Club-style jazz since his debut as a teenage guitar prodigy in the early 1980s, feels like a homecoming. Lagrène's band may replicate the three guitars, bass, and violin lineup of the original Hot Club quintet, but this is no mere exercise in nostalgia. Lagrène and violinist Florin Niculescu imbue standards like "Embraceable You" and "Lime House Blues" with a blend of jazzy sophistication and bittersweet romanticism that is undeniably Gypsy in character. 

It's as if they are wrapping the hard lessons learned in centuries of difficult wandering within bonbons like Charles Trenet's "La Mer." The music on Gypsy Project has a certain charm, but when Lagrène accents the melody with an unexpected string bend or rhythmic flourish, he reveals surprisingly complex emotions lying just beneath the surface. ~ Michael Simmons - Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Project-Bireli-Lagrene/dp/B00005RFJB

Gipsy Project

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