I had the privilege of playing with guitarist Jason Schuster and Gypsy Tears again on October 1st 2019. Also bassist Nolan Kostella-Staples did some fine solo work and my good friend Howard Wapner on rhythm guitar is always a treat to make music with. We had some rather distracting sound
I do not know the exact story about the writing of this tune, but I’d bet that is was just an impromptu jam when the band had some extra time left in the studio. This melody can get rather “interpretive” from player to player. Non-members: Want to learn more about
Babik was Django Reinhardt’s son. I’m told the name means “little one” but I have no verification of that. Our gypsy jazz group Babik considered ourselves “sons of Django,” so adopted the name, and had to put this tune in our song list. It leans toward the BeBop vein more
Gypsy Jazz Song by Django Reinhardt. Classic Rhythm Changes tune. The audio demo version you will hear below is as it is often played live, with the scalar line in measures 7-8 being used for an intro and outro. Here it is played once, then repeated one half step up,
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