Title: Essential for the Django fan
Product review: This is the closest thing that we have to a "farewell" album from Django, and just the smallest peak at where he may have been headed. Although by this point he was mesmerized by bop and the new sounds coming out of America, his fans and comrades had come to consider him part of the old school of Euro jazz. Django probably decided he would have to inch his way over to the new sounds and seems to do so on many of these recordings. His electric guitar playing can be thrilling and unusual - he was already experimenting a tiny bit with distortion and harmonics - and you can hear him trying to pull the other musicians into the great beyond with him. This collection nicely wraps up the studio work from some of his final sessions and is nicely mastered and annotated. Not exactly on par with the gold standard JSP series of Django's work, but still very worthwhile.
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