It Was So Beautiful
CD JSP Records JSPCD 344
Sometime around the shift of millenniums, the sound engineer Ted Kendall made new and good transfers of Django Reinhardt recordings for the British label JSP. Here we have volume four in the series containing, among others, a session from September 1935 with, besides Django on solo guitar, his brother Joseph Reinhardt and Pierre Ferret on rhythm guitar, and Tony Rovira on string bass. Stephane Grappelly played violin as usual, and because the session was made for Decca while the Quintette was still on contract with Ultraphone, the records were issued under his name.
I have chosen a tune written by Harry Barris, simply because it’s beautiful.