Gypsy Project

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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

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Much to the delight of his long-time fans, Bireli Lagrene returned to the Django-influenced sound in 2000, first as a sideman on Didier Lockwood’s "Tribute to Stephané Grappelli" and later at the four day Django Festival at the Birdland jazz club in New York City. "Gypsy Project" is Bireli’s first full-length album of Gypsy music in almost 20 years. With a healthy dose of Django music, it also features a scintillating collection of other Gypsy-Swing favorites. With an all-string quintet reminiscent of Django’s groups of the late 1940’s, and a special guest appearance by Richard Galliano, this record is sure to amaze!

Bireli Lagrene - Guitar Diego Imbert - Bass Holzmano Lagrene - Guitar Florin Niculescu - Violin Hono Wintersetin - Guitar Special Guest - Richard Galliano (Accordion on "Daphne")

Gypsy Project

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Average customer rating: cheerful, amazing,

Introducing Bela Lakatos & the Gypsy Youth Project Bela Lakatos & the Gypsy Youth Project Manufacturer: World Music Network ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Gypsy | Eastern Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sonny Please The Rough Guide to Yodel Telemann: Complete Overture, Vol. 1 Beethoven: Sonaten für Klavier & Violine Op. 23 & 30 Live at Minas ASIN: B000HIVH3Y Release Date: 2006-09-15

Tracks:

1. O Bijav
2. Pal O Foro
3. Lina
4. Shun Athe Mura Dola
5. Muro Shavo Kiki
6. Geri Romnji
7. Autar Manca
8. Korkorro Som
9. Del O Brishind...
10. Bilako Na Zhuvau
11. Patave Baxtale
12. Puter Mama
13. Dimo
14. Na Sutyom
15. Po Drom

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The music of Hungary's Roma tribes is one of Eastern Europe's most durable and influential folkways. It has turned up in classical music composed by Lizst, Kodály, and Bartók--the latter two were famous ethnomusicologists who preserved innumerable endangered tunes--and remains an important component in Jewish klezmer, as well as other folk and pop styles. The present group was formed with the intention of preserving their Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg cultural heritage for future generations. Known in their homeland simply as Ternipe (youth), the band's male and female singers are accompanied by acoustic guitar and mandolin with occasional chromatic harmonica licks, plus a percussion consort consisting of a struck metal can and clicking sticks, plus irrepressible foot-stomping. All native Romany speakers, the members are avid song-collectors and the results of their field research can be heard on this album. With harmony-drenched melodies, thumping rhythms, and chiming plucked strings that sometimes evoke recollections of Greek tavern music, their sound is remarkably infectious, but nonetheless harbors an underlying, persistent tinge of melancholy--it's beautiful, exuberant, rustic, sophisticated, and miles deep. --Christina Roden

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Introducing Bela Lakatos & The Gypsy Youth Project tells the story of Hungarian Gypsy youth, with poignant tales of lost love, hardship and reflections on the life of an outcast people. Known as 'Ternipe' (meaning 'youth') at home, the group - which is predominantly vocal, with percussion from sticks, foot-stomping and a metal can, and an acoustic guitar and mandolin - was formed with the aim of ensuring the survival of Gypsy folk music and to launch the next generation of Hungarian Gypsy music.

Customer Reviews:

cheerful, amazing, .......2006-12-11

this is a gem, the music is just gorgeous, refreshing and... old - real (if there is something like that) Gypsy music. I played it over and over. and it still good. Mishto!

Average customer rating: Bireli is the King of guitar Wonderful for all - even the uninitiated Adaptable Virtuoso? Django Reborn! Absolute superb fuuuuuuun !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gypsy Project Bireli Lagrène Manufacturer: Dreyfus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Move Gipsy Project & Friends Franco-American Swing Duet Bireli Lagrene & Friends- Live Jazz A Vienne ASIN: B00005RFJB Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

1. Blues Clair
2. Coquette
3. Si Tu Savais
4. Belleville
5. Daphne (Version Langue)
6. Je Suis Seul Ce Soir
7. Swing 42
8. Embraceable You
9. Vous Et Moi
10. Festival 48
11. Viper's Dream
12. What Is This Thing Called Love
13. La Mer
14. Lime House Blues
15. Daphne (Version Courte)

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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

Album Description

Much to the delight of his long-time fans, Bireli Lagrene returned to the Django-influenced sound in 2000, first as a sideman on Didier Lockwood's "Tribute to Stephané Grappelli" and later at the four day Django Festival at the Birdland jazz club in New York City. "Gypsy Project" is Bireli's first full-length album of Gypsy music in almost 20 years. With a healthy dose of Django music, it also features a scintillating collection of other Gypsy-Swing favorites. With an all-string quintet reminiscent of Django's groups of the late 1940's, and a special guest appearance by Richard Galliano, this record is sure to amaze!

Bireli Lagrene - Guitar Diego Imbert - Bass Holzmano Lagrene - Guitar Florin Niculescu - Violin Hono Wintersetin - Guitar Special Guest - Richard Galliano (Accordion on "Daphne")

Customer Reviews:

Bireli is the King of guitar.......2006-07-19

This album is without a doubt some of the best playing i have ever heard. It also contains the perfect gypsy jazz instrumentation as far as i'm concerned. A couple of rhythm guitars, bass, lead guitar, violin, and accordion here and there (not too much but just enough). If you want to hear some great musicians expand on what the master Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli started then you should not miss this cd. Bireli proves himself to be an unparralleled master of the guitar and one of the best gypsy musicians to date. Pick up all of Bireli's other gypsy project albums as well. It doesn't get much better than this. His technical mastery of his instrument is equaled by his melodic sensibility and sweet touch. Hono Winterstein is also such a fine rhythm player. Florin Niculescu's violin playing is quite a treat, too. He makes the violin sing with love. This album also contains alot of great songs from the gypsy repertoire. It is missing some....alot of which can be found on the other gypsy project cd. Also, of course check out anything by Jimmy Rosenberg, Angelo Debarre, and Dorado Schmitt. I hope this review encourages at least one person to buy this cd. You will not be dissapointed. Take care.

Wonderful for all - even the uninitiated.......2005-09-09

This was my first introduction to Gypsy Jazz and I was to say the least pleasantly surprised. I first heard of Bireli Lagrene from his work with Dider Lockwood on "Tribute to Stephane Grapelli" and bought this album on impulse which is something I very rarely do. Clean bright guitar solos dominate this album but the rhythm section is also stunning and I think there's lots on this album for any guitar player (or violinist) to aspire to.

Adaptable Virtuoso?.......2005-08-29

What can I say? Django Reinhardt,Stephane Grappelli and company would be smiling down from Gypsy Virtuoso heaven. Would this be what Django Reinhardt would sound like if he did not burn his playing fingers in that nasty fire when he was a lad.No wonder on Martin Taylor,s web site he states he thinks Bireli Lagrene is the best Guitarist in the world playing today.I would love to hear if Bireli would and could do a Charlie Christian type recording like the 1941 recording at Minton,s Playhouse? Man that would cook!

Django Reborn!.......2004-12-09

The hottest thing since sunburn! You MUST have this cd even if you are a 'casual' listener of the genre. If you're a guitarist, set your ears to STUN!!!!!

Absolute superb fuuuuuuun !!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-07-05

This album is so well played, so respectful of the Django tradition and in the meanwhile innovative, so romantic, so meaningful, so intense, so technical, so satisfying, so clever, so funnyyyyyyyyyyy, so well recorded, it's such a value in the end it is ridicolous. It is absolutly breathtaking and spectacular!! I did buy this one, the other Bireli's album "live with friends" and the dvd. Bireli is stellar but Niculescu the violin player, man he's a monster musician (really). Consider that I really DON'T like violin but he plays magnificiently and I can't do nothing but change my mind about violin. This Django project it's one of the most satisfying jazz event of the recent years. When I think how much boring has become Jazz lately I find this album of music which has 60 years (!!!!) incredibly refreshing. Compare the Joy you feel in this album with a lot of sad, minimalist, sterile albums from some "modern" Jazz record companies...(I don't want to point out any of them but you know how many boring recent Jazz albums are out there on the shelves). This one blow them away!!!
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW UN-BE-LIE-VA-BLE, FUN FUN FUN!!

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