Time: 55:59
Size: 128.2 MB
Styles: Gypsy Swing
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[3:33] 1. You Made Me Love You
[4:16] 2. The Godfather Love Theme (Speak Softly To Me)
[4:19] 3. J'attenrai
[2:53] 4. Sweet Sue
[4:33] 5. Montagne Sainte Genevieve
[2:53] 6. Rhythm Isreal
[4:15] 7. Blue Drag
[2:22] 8. Honeysuckle Rose
[3:55] 9. Honeymoon
[4:17] 10. Nuages
[3:31] 11. Burning Guatemala
[4:46] 12. Tchavolo Swing
[3:09] 13. Honey Pie
[2:39] 14. Black And White
[4:31] 15. Danube
In October 2006, two stories that had been running in parallel converged into one: the story of Swing de Gitanes. Oren Sagi had been playing Gypsy jazz with Roman Alexseyev’s band in 2006. He went on to meet Bar Zalel and the violinist Mirel Resnick, who were also playing this style, and developed an intense yearning to play Django’s music. In the meantime, a friend of his told Oren of a guitarist who was completely obsessed with Django Reinhardt and never stopped talking about him, calling up images of scenes from the movie “Sweet and Lowdown” in Oren’s mind.
October 2006 is when Yaakov Hoter returned to Israel, having played In a Gypsy jazz jam session for the first time (in Copenhagen), meeting John Larsen and Walter Clerici and taking his first lessons in this style. On his return, Yaakov’s childhood dream of learning Django’s music from the source and playing like the Gypsies was burning within him. As soon as he got off the plane, he was anxious to get started organizing a Gypsy swing band. That’s when he heard Oren’s message.
It wasn’t long before Oren, Yaakov and Bar established Swing de Gitanes. Love for this kind of music blossomed. A group of dedicated fans and like-minded musicians grew up around the band’s weekly performances at a neighborhood café. A different guest sat in with the band every week. There were accordionists, violinists, saxophone players and guitarists. One of those guest guitarists stood out above all the others because of his devotion to Django and his original playing – Ori Ben Zvi. He was inspired by Swing de Gitanes to fly to Holland, study the Gypsy style intensively and acquire a Gypsy guitar.
As soon as he got back to Israel, he joined the band, which soon settled into its current lineup. The group’s special musical character was planted thanks to the open flow of ideas between the three musicians, each of whom is a soloist in his own right, and blossomed because of the friendly interaction between the musicians, their intense love of the music and the exchange of roles that allows each of them to express his talents in many ways: as an accompanist, a leading soloist and an ensemble member.
The band is dedicated to exposing the Gypsy swing style to the Israeli public and bringing leading Gypsy jazz musicians from around the world to Israel. Swing de Gitanes has already played host to Jon Larsen (the founder of the Hot Club Records label) and Hot Club de Norvèges, Lulo Reinhardt (in honor of the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt’s birth), Daniel Weltlinger (who was featured as a guest artist on the CD, “Muza”), clarinetist Evan Christopher from New Orleans, Antal Postai (Romania), Mauricio Flavio (Italy) and more.
October 2006 is when Yaakov Hoter returned to Israel, having played In a Gypsy jazz jam session for the first time (in Copenhagen), meeting John Larsen and Walter Clerici and taking his first lessons in this style. On his return, Yaakov’s childhood dream of learning Django’s music from the source and playing like the Gypsies was burning within him. As soon as he got off the plane, he was anxious to get started organizing a Gypsy swing band. That’s when he heard Oren’s message.
It wasn’t long before Oren, Yaakov and Bar established Swing de Gitanes. Love for this kind of music blossomed. A group of dedicated fans and like-minded musicians grew up around the band’s weekly performances at a neighborhood café. A different guest sat in with the band every week. There were accordionists, violinists, saxophone players and guitarists. One of those guest guitarists stood out above all the others because of his devotion to Django and his original playing – Ori Ben Zvi. He was inspired by Swing de Gitanes to fly to Holland, study the Gypsy style intensively and acquire a Gypsy guitar.
As soon as he got back to Israel, he joined the band, which soon settled into its current lineup. The group’s special musical character was planted thanks to the open flow of ideas between the three musicians, each of whom is a soloist in his own right, and blossomed because of the friendly interaction between the musicians, their intense love of the music and the exchange of roles that allows each of them to express his talents in many ways: as an accompanist, a leading soloist and an ensemble member.
The band is dedicated to exposing the Gypsy swing style to the Israeli public and bringing leading Gypsy jazz musicians from around the world to Israel. Swing de Gitanes has already played host to Jon Larsen (the founder of the Hot Club Records label) and Hot Club de Norvèges, Lulo Reinhardt (in honor of the 100th anniversary of Django Reinhardt’s birth), Daniel Weltlinger (who was featured as a guest artist on the CD, “Muza”), clarinetist Evan Christopher from New Orleans, Antal Postai (Romania), Mauricio Flavio (Italy) and more.
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