Editing Django Reinhardt (section)

=== 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>