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	Gypsy Project Bireli Lagrène Dreyfus, 2001 average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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

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Django Reborn!

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!!!!!


Wonderful for all - even the uninitiated

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.

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Adaptable Virtuoso?

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!


Bireli is the King of guitar

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.

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Fine CD

As everyone has said, this is a very fine CD.

I fell in love with the music of Django Reinhardt forty years ago and an LP of the Hot Club de Paris music was one of my very first jazz LP purchases. If I had a reservation at all it was simply that the quality of recording from the thirties and forties was not as good as it might have been, even though the music still amazed and delighted.

Thus it makes a lot of sense to buy a recording by a modern master of the genre, which Lagrene is without question. Here you have Lagrene and co. playing with superb virtuosity in a studio setting and this may be the finest CD of its type.

My only reservation, and it is a small one, is that this kind music is often more enjoyable in live performance, and you may wish to consider first buying the live DVD of Bireli Lagrene and Friends--Live Jazz in Vienna, which is a brilliant 3-hour long concert that really catches the atmosphere of group of wonderful musicians playing and improvising in similar vein to this recording. (There is also a similar--and excellent--live concert available to listen to at the NPR Jazz Website.)

The DVD is a few dollars more, but then you get much more music.

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Tracks
Blues Clair - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django | Coquette - Bireli Lagrene, Green, Johnny | Si Tu Savais - Bireli Lagrene, Ulmer, Georges | Belleville - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django | Daphré - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django | Je Suis Seul Ce Soir - Bireli Lagrene, Casanova, Jean | Swing 42 - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django | Embraceable You - Bireli Lagrene, Gershwin, George | Vous et Moi - Bireli Lagrene, Bosmans, Robert | Festival 48 - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django | Viper's Dream - Bireli Lagrene, Allen, Fletcher | What Is This Thing Called Love? - Bireli Lagrene, Porter, Cole | La Mer - Bireli Lagrene, Trenet, Charles | Limehouse Blues - Bireli Lagrene, Braham, Philip | Daphré - Bireli Lagrene, Reinhardt, Django

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