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Gypsy Jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean Django Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz".
Django was foremost among a group of Romani guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s through the 1950s, a group which also included the brothers Baro, Sarane, and Matelo Ferret and Reinhardt's brother Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt.
Reinhardt was noted for combining a dark, chromatic Gypsy flavor with the swing articulation of the period. This combination is critical to this style of jazz. In addition to this, his approach continues to form the basis for contemporary Gypsy jazz guitar. Reinhardt's most famous group, the Quintette du Hot Club de France, also brought fame to jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli
Club Django Toronto has been active on the Canadian
Jazz scene for over 25 years and is Toronto's longest-running, gypsy swing band.
Club Django Toronto was nominated for Best Acoustic Group
of the Year 2003 by the National Jazz Award
Club Django Toronto are recording artists and have won The Canadian Collectors Congress award for “Album Of The Year”
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After You've Gone Creamer / Layton
All Of Me Simons / Marks
Anouman Reinhardt
Artillerie Lourde (Heavy Artillery) Reinhardt
Avalon Jolson / Sylva / Rose
Belleville Reinhardt
Besame Mucho Consuelo Velazguez
Black Orpheus Luiz Bonfa
Blue Drag Myrow
Blues Clair Reinhardt
Blues Minor Reinhardt
Bossa Durado Durado Schmitt
China Boy Boutelje
Coquette Reinhardt
Danseur de Charleston Moulin
Daphne Reinhardt
Dark Eyes Trad
Dinah Akat
Dinette Reinhardt
Djangology Reinhardt
Django's Tiger Reinhardt
Douce Ambiance Reinhardt
Exactly Like You Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
Georgia On My Mind Hoagy Charmichael
Honeysuckle Rose Fats Waller
Hungaria Reinhardt
I Can't Give you Anything But Love McHugo
I Found A New Baby Williams / Palmer
I Got Rhythm Gershwin
I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight Kahn / Donaldson
I'll See You In My Dreams Kahn / Jones
I'm Confessin' Dougherty / Reynolds
In A Sentimental Mood Ellington
It Don't Mean A Thing Ellington
J'Attendrai Jean Sablon
Joseph Joseph Trad
La Gitane Reinhardt
Latcho Drom Trad
Les Nuits de Ste-Germain des Pres Reinhardt
Limehouse Blues Furber / Braham
Mamosa Trad
Manoir de Mes Reves (Django's Castle) Reinhardt
Menilmontant Reinhardt
Minor Swing Reinhardt
Mire Pral Tchvalo Schmitt
My Melancholy Baby Burnett / Norton
Night And Day Porter
Nuages Reinhardt
Oh, Lady Be Good! Gershwin
Out Of Nowhere German / Hayman
Puttin' On The Ritz Berlin
Que Reste-t-il Reinhardt
Russian Lullabye Berlin
S' Wonderful Gershwin
Shine Dabney / Mack / Brown
Si Tu Savais Ulmer
Smile Chaplin
Songe D'automne Titanic Orchestra
Stompin' At Decca Reinhardt
Summertime Gershwin
Sweet Chorus Reinhardt
Sweet Georgia Brown Bernie / Pinard / Casey
Swing 39 Reinhardt
Swing 42 Reinhardt
Swing Guitar Reinhardt
Swing Valse Gus Viseur
Take The A Train Basie
Tears Reinhardt
The Sheik of Araby Smith / Snider
There Will Never Be Another You Warren / Gordon
These Foolish Things Link / Maxwell
Three Little Words Kalmar / Ruby
Time On My Hands Reinhardt
Troubland Bolero Reinhardt
Valse de Niglots Reinhardt
Viper's Dream Allen
Webster Reinhardt
Whispering Schonberger
We require 4 chairs without arms
We need to know any directions that will help us find the venue and find the right place to load in our equipment
Yes, we’re completely self contained. Larger venues (over 500 people) need to provide sound and lighting.
Yes, we’re happy to play music from Spotify before, after and between our sets.
We opened for John Pizzarelli at Ottawa International Jazz Festival, 10,00 audience
We opened for Gino Vanelli at Syracuse Jazz Festival, 20,00 audience
Jazz Festivals
Twenty five years back we started performing live w/ the release of our first CD Tribute To The Quintet of the Hot Club Du France
Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli
greatest songs: Nuages, Minor Swing
We normally arrive 1 hour before the performance to set up. We normally perform 2 x 45 minutes or 2 x 60 minute sets. We’re happy to play a bit longer or shorter but we’ve found that these set times suit us and our audiences best.
We’re happy to play outside but we ask for shade, a flat level surface and a power supply close to the performance area
We play a unique genre. We can do requests that are genre appropriate.
Previous customers would describe us as a high energy group that loves to get the audience on their feet dancing.
They have many similarities
These are our Toronto area gigs
Smokeshow BBQ & Brew
Drom Taberna
Hirut
C'est What
Jazz Bistro
Reid's Distillery
Todmorden Mills
We were the houseband @ The Rex for 20 years untill Covid
These are our out-of-town gigs
Ouroboros KW Jazz Society
101 Hazelglen, Kitchener, ON
Glenhyrst Coach House
20 Ava Rd., Brantford, ON
The Old Winery Restaurant
2228 Niagara Stone Rd., Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
The Hare Wine Company
769 Niagara Stone Road, Niagara On The Lake, ON
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