A l'occasion de la mise en ligne sur Itunes d'une version remastérisée de l'album mythique "Gypsy Guitars" d'Angelo Debarre, Serge Camps et Frank Anastasio, John Larsen (Hot Club Records) met à disposition sur Facebook un album photo (dont pas mal d'inédit) de la session d'enregistrement et du cabaret non moins mythique La Roue Fleurie.
A voir également une jolie photo de Matelo Ferret chez lui, puisque pour la petite histoire, Jon Larsen s'était rendu à Paris à la fin des années 80 pour apprendre du vieux maître les valses de Django. C'est durant ce voyage qu'il découvrira Angelo Debarre à la Roue Fleurie avant de prendre la décision de le faire enregistrer sur son tout nouveau label Hot Club Record...!
- Angelo Debarre
Producer’s note :
22 years have gone since the recording of the GYPSY GUITARS, and it has remained the reference album in the genre. A genre that actually did not exist yet at the time we recorded this, but the release of the album GYPSY GUITARS triggered the renaissance of the Django music in France. The subsequent year Stochelo Rosenberg, in the Netherlands, achieved a major success with his amazing debut album Seresta, which came by as a direct inspiration of the GYPSY GUITARS album. Another year later, and Jimmy Rosenberg entered the international jazz scene, triggered by Stochelo’s success, et voila – the international breakthrough for the new wave of Django inspired music was a fact. The rest is history.
- Serge Camps
Today the Django inspired music has gained a momentum nobody could have foreseen 22 years ago, without a real crystal ball. Today there are Django Festivals worldwide and thousands of talented young musicians are exploring this exceptional music, as a natural part of the 21st century music scene. Furthermore, the Django inspired music as a contemporary genre with no name, and many names – jazz manouche, swing gitan, gypsy jazz, etc – reflects in a direct way the many facets of Django Reinhardt himself : The genre today has a natural span from rustic, traditional jazz, via sophisticated modernistic jazz, and a variety of folklore elements, and rock, to contemporary classical, and even a symphonic approach. Few other types of music can do the same.
In any case, the Django music has become a fantastic genre, and here’s the album that started it all : the GYPSY GUITARS !
