Tracks:
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Don't Worry About Me
Man I Love, The
Three Little Words
Swing 39
It Don't Mean a Thing
St. Louis Blues
Honeysuckle Rose
Lambeth Walk
Sweet Georgia Brown
Night and Day
Chasing Shadows
I've Had My Moments
Louise
Please Be Kind
Black and White
Souvenirs
My Sweet
Undecided
Daphne
Love's Melody
H.C.Q. Strut
Ultrafox
Djangology
I Got Rhythm
Moonglow
Appel Direct
Swing from Paris
Limehouse Blues
I've Found a New Baby
Billets Doux
It Was So Beautiful
Them There Eyes
China Boy
Improvisation
Belle Ville
Liza
Nocturne
Nuages
Stomping at Decca

Performer Notes:

• Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli collaborated between 1935 and 1946 to make beautiful, dense guitar music on PLATINUM COLLECTION: GRAPPELLI WITH THE QUINTET OF THE HOT CLUB OF FRANCE.
• Django Reinhardt's extraordinary contribution to the art of jazz improvisation is documented within a musical legacy consisting of literally hundreds of recordings made between 1928 and 1953. Under the heading of The Platinum Collection, 40 selected titles from this massive discography were assembled by the Start label in 2004, predating EMI's identically titled 60-track anthology by four years. Start's approach was to spotlight Reinhardt's collaborative friendship with violinist St‚phane Grappelli while focusing mainly upon the records they cut together during the late '30s. Anyone wishing to investigate with greater thoroughness has multiple chronologically sequenced collections to choose from. Recommended labels in that realm include Classics, EMI, JSP, Naxos, and Fremeaux & Associes. Start's double-disc sampler will work nicely as an easy introduction to the stimulating pleasantries of Gypsy swing. ~ arwulf arwulf

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 11 October, 2004

Label: Platinum (UK)