Pearl Django Explained

Pearl Django
Background:group_or_band
Genre:Gypsy swing, swing revival
Years Active:1994-present
Label:Modern Hot Records
Current Members:
Tim Lerch
Michael Gray
Rick Leppanen
David Lange
Jim Char
Past Members:Neil Andersson
Troy Chapman
Ron Peters
Greg Ruby
Pete Krebs
Dudley Hill
Shelley D. Park
David Firman
Ryan Hoffman

Pearl Django is a jazz group established in 1994 in Tacoma, Washington by guitarists Neil Andersson and Dudley Hill[1] and bassist David "Pope" Firman. The group melds the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli with American Swing. Initially a trio, they have changed and added members over the years and are now a quintet. Based in Seattle, they have played around the United States, as well as in France and Iceland.

The band has performed at the prestigious Festival Django Reinhardt in Samois-sur-Seine and at Juan de Fuca Festival.[2] They have played with Martin Taylor,[3] Bucky Pizzarelli,[4] and Gail Pettis, a two-time recipient of the Earshot Jazz 'Jazz Vocalist Of The Year' award.[5] The British virtuoso Taylor turns up on three tracks of their 2011 album Eleven. On their twelfth album, Time Flies, released in 2015, all tracks are their own compositions except for one classic bossa nova.[6]

Discography

ReleasedTitleLabelNotes
1995Le Jazz HotModern Hot Records
1997New Metropolitan SwingModern Hot Records
1999Mystery PacificModern Hot Records
1999SouvenirsModern Hot Records
2000AvalonModern Hot Records
2002Under Paris SkiesModern Hot Records
2003Swing 48Modern Hot Records
2005Chasing ShadowsModern Hot Records
2007Modern TimesModern Hot Records
2010Hotel New YorkerModern Hot RecordsCompilation from 1995 to 1999 releases
2010Système DModern Hot Records
2012ElevenModern Hot Records
2015Time FliesModern Hot Records
2017With Friends Like TheseModern Hot Records All original compositions
2019Pearl Django LiveModern Hot Records
2020SimplicityModern Hot Records All original compositions

References

  1. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20050120&slug=hillobit20m Seattle Times: Dudley Hill, who started popular band Pearl Django, dies at 56 01/20/2005
  2. Web site: JFF 2014 Festival Line Up: Pearl Django . Juan de Fuca Foundation of the Arts . 31 January 2014 . 13 September 2015.
  3. Web site: Martin Taylor With Pearl Django: Gypsy Jazz . National Public Radio . 13 January 2011 . 13 September 2015.
  4. Web site: Bucky Pizzarelli and Pearl Django playing Avalon . Vimeo . 5 Jan 2014 . 13 September 2015 . David Lange.
  5. Web site: Pearl Django profile at KPLU . https://web.archive.org/web/20111020002518/http://kplu.org/term/pearl-django . dead . 20 October 2011 . KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest . 13 September 2015 .
  6. Web site: Pearl Django, 'Time Flies' (Modern Hot) . Seattle Times . 24 April 2015 . 13 September 2015 . Paul de Barros, jazz critic.

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