Editing Django Reinhardt (section)

== Discography ==
=== Releases in his lifetime ===
Reinhardt recorded over 900 sides in his recording career, from 1928 to 1953, the majority as sides of the then-prevalent [[78 rpm|78-RPM]] records, with the remainder as acetates, transcription discs, private and off-air recordings (of radio broadcasts), and part of a film soundtrack. Only one session (eight tracks) from March 1953 was ever recorded specifically for album release by [[Norman Granz]] in the then-new [[LP record|LP]] format, but Reinhardt died before the album could be released. In his earliest recordings Reinhardt played banjo (or, more accurately, banjo-guitar) accompanying accordionists and singers on dances and popular tunes of the day, with no jazz content, whereas in the last recordings before his death he played amplified guitar in the [[bebop]] idiom with a pool of younger, more modern French musicians.

A full chronological listing of his lifetime recorded output is available from the source cited here,<ref>{{cite web|last=Hasegawa|first=Hikaru|title=The Complete Django Reinhardt Discography 1928–1953|url=http://www.djangoreinhardt.info/printdiscography.php |access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> and an index of individual tunes is available from the source cited here.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Djangopedia|title=Django's Full Discography|url=http://djangopedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Django%27s_Full_Discography |access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref> A few fragments of film performance (without original sound) also survive, as does one complete performance with sound, of the tune "J'Attendrai" performed with the Quintet in 1938 for the short film ''Le Jazz Hot''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbSq-jPYCVU | title=Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France – J'attendrai 1939 – High Quality / AI Upscaled | website=[[YouTube]] | date=17 September 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|work=All About Jazz|title=News: All Known Film Footage of Django Reinhardt Now Available on DVD at Last|date=4 September 2002 |url=http://news.allaboutjazz.com/all-known-film-footage-of-django-reinhardt-now-available-on-dvd-at-last.php |access-date=10 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=Open Culture|title=Jazz 'Hot': The Rare 1938 Short Film with Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt|url=http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/ijazz_hoti_the_rare_1938_short_film_with_jazz_legend_django_reinhardt.html|access-date=10 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210214318/http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/ijazz_hoti_the_rare_1938_short_film_with_jazz_legend_django_reinhardt.html|archive-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>

=== Posthumous compilations ===
Since his death, Reinhardt's music has been released on many compilations. ''Intégrale Django Reinhardt'', volumes 1–20 (40 CDs), released by the French company Frémeaux from 2002 to 2005, tried to include every known track on which he played.<ref>{{cite web|work=Fretboard Journal|title=Django Reinhardt's Life on Record|url=http://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/online/django-reinhardt-life-record|access-date=10 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210214118/http://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/online/django-reinhardt-life-record|archive-date=10 December 2015}}</ref>

* ''The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt'' ([[Clef Records|Clef]], 1954)
* ''Parisian Swing'' ([[GNP Crescendo]], 1965)
* ''Quintet of the Hot Club of France'' (GNP Crescendo, 1965)
* ''Paris 1945'' with [[Glenn Miller]] All-Stars (French [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], 1973)
* ''Django Reinhardt: The Versatile Giant'' ([[Inner City Records]], 1978)
* ''At Club St. Germain'' (Honeysuckle, 1983)
* ''Swing Guitar'' (Jass, 1991)
* ''Djano Reinhardt in Brussels'' ([[Verve Records|Verve]], 1992)
* ''Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli'' (GNP Crescendo, 1990)
* ''Peche à La Mouche: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1947–1953'' (Verve, 1992)
* ''Django's Music'' (Hep, 1994)
* ''Brussels and Paris'' ([[DRG Records|DRG]], 1996)
* ''Quintet of the Hot Club of France'' ([[Original Jazz Classics]], 1997)
* ''Django with His American Friends'' (DRG, 1998)
* ''The Complete Django Reinhardt HMV Sessions'' (1998)
* ''The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order'' (2000)
* ''[[Djangology]]'' ([[Bluebird Records|Bluebird]], 2002)
* ''Intégrale Django Reinhardt'' (Frémeaux, 2002)
* ''[[Jazz in Paris: Nuages]]'' (2003)
* ''Vol. 2: 1938–1939'' ([[Naxos Records|Naxos]], 2001)
* ''Swing Guitars Vol. 3 1936–1937'' (Naxos, 2003)
* ''Nuages Vol. 6 1940'' (Naxos, 2004)
* ''Django on the Radio'' (2008)
* ''Djangology: Solo and Duet Recordings'' (2019)

===Sideman work===
* [[Coleman Hawkins]] ''The Coleman Hawkins Collection 1927-1956'' (2014; 1930s recordings)
* [[Charles Trenet]] ''Intégrale Charles Trénet: 1933-1947'' (2004)

=== Unrecorded compositions ===
A small number of waltzes composed by Reinhardt in his youth were never recorded by the composer, but were retained in the repertoire of his associates and several are still played today. They came to light via recordings by [[Matelo Ferret]] in 1960 (the waltzes "Montagne Sainte-Genevieve", "Gagoug", "Chez Jacquet" and "Choti"; [[Disques Vogue]] (F)EPL7740) and 1961 ("Djalamichto" and "En Verdine"; Disques Vogue (F)EPL7829). The first four are now available on Matelo's CD ''Tziganskaïa and Other Rare Recordings'', released by Hot Club Records (subsequently reissued as ''Tziganskaïa: The Django Reinhardt Waltzes''); "Chez Jacquet" was also recorded by [[Baro Ferret]] in 1966.

The names "Gagoug" and "Choti" were reportedly conferred by Reinhardt's [[widow]] Naguine on request from Matelo, who had learned the tunes without names. Reinhardt also worked on composing a Mass for use by the gypsies, which was not completed although an 8-minute extract exists, played by the organist [[Léo Chauliac]] for Reinhardt's benefit, via a 1944 radio broadcast; this can be found on the CD release "Gipsy Jazz School" and also on volume 12 of the "Intégrale Django Reinhardt" CD compilation.{{efn|Here is Lauren Oliver's transcript of the interview from the radio broadcast:
Introduction:
VO: In the Chapel of the National Institute for Blind Children, Django Reinhardt will, for the first time, hear his mass played on the organ, which he has written especially for the gypsies. (Organ begins to play)
Interview:
Announcer: Could you tell me Mr Reinhardt, what has compelled you to write this mass?
DR: All the gypsies in the entire world have made use of foreign masses for many centuries. I have written this mass to be interpreted by choir and organ.
A: And in what surroundings do you isolate yourself in order to write – it's not a question of surroundings. For you certainly cannot do it after a jazz concert?
DR: I prefer to write in the evening very late or in the morning in my bed.
A: And did you notate the music?
DR: No, it's not I who notates the music. It's my clarinetist in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, Gerard Leveque. I dictate it to him.
A: And is today the first recital of your mass?
DR: It is an extract of my mass. I particularly don't know the ending. It's the first time I have heard the composition on the organ.
A: Certainly you know, Mr Reinhardt, that in the world and particularly in France, it is said that you are the king of the gypsies. Is that accurate?
DR: No, no, no, don't think that. But it might come to pass, perhaps one day. I am very loved by them, and I thank them by offering to them this mass. (Organ continues to play)}}