Fleche d'Or

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Flèche d’or

Django Reinhardt

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Entry	Year	Recording / session / release evidence	Listen
01	1952	Fleche d'Or, 30/1/52, P 1180 ,"DRG 8473,Musidisc 403222"," - Paris - Django Reinhardt (elg), Roger Guerin (tpt), Hubert Fol (as), Raymond Fol (p), Barney Spieler (b), Pierre Lemarchand (d)"	—

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The archive entry is dated 30 January 1952 and names Django on electric guitar with trumpet, alto saxophone, piano, bass and drums. The guide preserves that evidence and the existing listening resource. Wrembel offers separately labelled full, forty-bar and thirty-two-bar play-alongs; those labels are a warning to agree the arrangement, not an invitation to treat every upload as the same form.

The inherited chart contains two eight-bar B-minor sections, sixteen bars of E7-flat9 colour, then a final eight-bar B-minor return. It also contains passing diminished and F-sharp7-flat9 details. First establish the two broad harmonic regions. Over B minor, D and F-sharp are clear anchors; over E7, G-sharp and D make the contrast audible. Do not assume the printed E7-flat9 treatment is the only historical voicing.

Inherited chart is preserved verbatim as historical study material, not silently corrected or newly authenticated. Check the specific caveats below and match the arrangement and key to the selected video. External teaching material remains on its creator’s site.

| Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ F#7b9/ | Bm6/// |

| Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ F#7b9/ | Bm6/// |

| E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// |

| E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// | E7b9/// |

| Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ C#dim/ | Bm(/D)/ C#dim/ | Bm6/ F#7b9/ | Bm6/// |

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Django’s “Flèche d’or” featuring Giacomo Smith & Evan Price

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Django’s “Flèche d’or” featuring Giacomo Smith & Evan PriceGypsy Jazz FestVideo available when checked; creator-described attribution.Performer attribution follows the video title and channel description. Proposed listening selection; no popularity ranking implied.✓ FeaturedFlèche d'or - Django Reinhardt - Romain Vuillemin QuartetRomain VuilleminVideo available when checked; creator-described attribution.Performer attribution follows the video title and channel description. Proposed listening selection; no popularity ranking implied.Select video

Play an eight-bar motif over B minor, repeat it with changed rhythm, then develop a related answer for the full sixteen-bar contrasting span. Count that span aloud. Re-enter the final A cleanly before adding any fast runs.

Keep long harmonic spans alive through touch and dynamics rather than unnecessary chord substitutions. Agree the exact length of the contrasting section before counting in.

Begin at 100–120 bpm; selected full-version play-along 240 bpm

B minor (inherited chart); 40-bar inherited study grid: A–A–B–B–A; other arrangements differ. Agree the arrangement, pickup and ending before counting in.

The thirty-two-bar and forty-bar backings are not interchangeable. The full-version selection must be checked against the chosen head/solo structure.

• The thirty-two-bar and forty-bar backings are not interchangeable. The full-version selection must be checked against the chosen head/solo structure.

This player guide combines inherited recording evidence and editorial study notes. Musical study notes are editorial suggestions; compare them with the recording.

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Autour de Django — cover study ↗

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