Génération Django Edouard Pennes & Génération Django

• 1Swing 4803:18
• 2Rythme Futur02:42
• 3Dinette04:11
• 4Songe d'Automne03:45
• 5Montagne Sainte-Geneviève02:11
• 6Manoir De Mes Rêves03:49
• 7Symphonie02:12
• 8Nuages05:06
• 9Troublant Bolero04:15
• 10Minor Swing04:13
• 11Summertime04:25
• 12Djangologie03:53
• Total Runtime44:00

Info for Génération Django

Double bassist and guitarist Edouard Pennes - accompanist to Tchavolo Schmitt, among others, and creator of the Paris Jazz Sessions - is offering an original, never-before-seen creation: Génération Django.

In this project, he revisits the repertoire of the spiritual father of gypsy jazz with a string quartet, creating brand new arrangements performed by the crème de la crème of soloists on today's gypsy scene. American virtuoso Giacomo Smith (clarinet), new star Fanou Torracinta and the excellent Sébastien Giniaux perform Django's finest compositions: Minor Swing, Nuages and Troublant Boléro and Swing 48... Unforgettable melodies served up by an original and talented cast.

Edouard Pennes, double bass
Romain Vuillemin, guitar
Fanou Torracinta, guitar
Sébastien Giniaux, guitar
Robert Fish, clarinet
Julien Cattiaux, guitar
Jules Dussap, 1st violin
Issey Nadaud, violin
Charlotte Chahuneau, viola
Apolline Lafait, cello

Edouard Pennes
A guitarist and double bass player with a passion for jazz and swing, Édouard discovered music at a very early age. at the age of seven and began a 10-year course in classical guitar at the Conservatoire.

Between concerts and jam sessions in Paris, he turned his attention to Swing and Gypsy jazz, listening to the best musicians in the style, and also took up the double bass. He took part in a number of shows by the artist Isabelle Georges (Padam Padam, Broadway enchanté, etc.), and founded the RP quartet with Bastien Ribot and Rémi Oswald, an avant-garde gypsy jazz group that released its 3rd album on the Frémeaux et Associés label and played over 500 concerts in venues and festivals around the world.

He works with the Paris Jazz Sessions, promoting jazz in Paris and inviting many foreign musicians to take part in concerts and recordings in France.

This album contains no booklet.