Impromptu

Django Reinhardt

Impromptu, an original tune by Django Reinhardt, from his later bop years.

According to Michael Dregni,

a refinement of Dizzy’s proto-bop tune Be Bop from the mid-1940s and one of Django’s most exciting songs ever. It was both old and new, a modernistique bebop rendition of Les yeux noirs

Recorded at Decca Studios, Paris, 11 May 1951.
In the picture, Django Reinhardt and his son, Babik Reinhardt.

• Django Reinhardt guitar
• Bernard Hulin trumpet
• Hubert Fol alto sax
• Raymond Fol piano
• Pierre Michelot bass
• Pierre Lemarchand drums