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Marie

Berlin’s song appears in Django’s later repertoire alongside piano, bass and drums. Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment.

If you study one thing

Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills.

A violinist in a cream jacket and a guitarist in a dark suit face each other across a small round table; a tall potted plant and one warm hanging lamp establish a graceful lyrical cafe.
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Illustration credits
Chart keyNot established
FormNot established
FeelSwing study; follow the chosen recording
MeterConfirm against the chosen arrangement; no historical metre inferred from the title
MusicIrving Berlin
Guide coverage10 / 12 sections present

Owner content reviewed — 2026-10-19T21:28:47Z by admin. Coverage measures presence, not accuracy. Content review does not certify rights or musical perfection.

See what is here and what is missing
  • ✓ Recording evidence
  • ○ Key & form
  • ○ Chart
  • ✓ History
  • ✓ Playing notes
  • ✓ Practice plan
  • ✓ Backing track
  • ✓ Django recording
  • ✓ Django solo study aid
  • ✓ Illustration
  • ✓ Sources
  • ✓ Difficulty

Django's Recordings

Django recordings for this tune. Uploader dates and take labels remain source claims; only an evidenced exact association enables a row’s Listen control.

1 historical recording entries · source text preserved
EntryYearRecording / session / release evidenceListen
011949Marie,CW 38 ,"Fremeaux FA 317, RCA ND 70929-2, RCA ND 90448","Jan-Feb 1949 - Rome - Django Reinhardt (g), Stephane Grappelly (v),Gianni Safred (p), Carlo Pecori (b), Aurelio de Carolis (d)"—

A dash means no video has been associated with this exact historical recording. Tune-level listening resources remain available above.

History & Listening

Berlin’s song appears in Django’s later repertoire alongside piano, bass and drums. The publisher’s Rome-era material and the inherited rows provide the historical anchor; modern trio versions offer a useful comparison of how the melody can travel between clarinet and guitar.

Tune details

Music: Irving Berlin

Documented in archive: 1949

Original key: Not established

Study level: Intermediate listening study; arrangement and source awareness

Melody & head

  • Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection.
  • The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.

Historical context and listening task ↗

Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection. Source-attributed credits: Irving Berlin

Chart & Form

A complete harmonic route is not established here. First sing the melody and mark phrase endings; verify the underlying chords from a reliable edition before adding substitutions.

No verified complete chart is supplied. The listening and practice notes do not stand in for a chord chart.

No readable chord chart has been added for this title.

Play along

Study Django's Solo

Performed studies, transcriptions, TAB, notation and lessons for studying Django’s solo. Inclusion does not certify note-for-note accuracy.

Similar tunes

Follow a shared key, a harmonic idea or a familiar form. Keys refer to this site’s chart editions; other recordings may use a different key.

Related chord movement

No sufficiently supported harmonic comparison has been added yet.

Same chart key

No match is established in the current chart metadata.

Same form

No match is established in the current chart metadata.

Behind the illustration

This image is an editorial illustration; a connection to this recording has not been established.

Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood; not a documented historical scene.

Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia

Illustration credits & provenance →

Notable Gypsy Jazz Performances

Selected performances by notable Gypsy Jazz players and ensembles. Inclusion is editorial and does not imply an objective popularity ranking.

Improvisation

Target notes & voice leading

  • Listen for a clear melody over moving accompaniment. Compare the role of the lead instrument in the modern trio with Django’s guitar in the historical listening selection.
  • Once a harmony is independently established, sing its destination note before adding an approach. Do not infer a progression from the tune title.

Pitch choices

  • Establish the actual harmony before choosing a scale. Begin with the melody and the destination note; no tune-wide scale formula is asserted.

Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.

Comping & voicings

Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.

Voicing note sets

  • Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.

Keep the accompaniment clear

  • First rehearse the specific phrase entry and release described above; add a chord pulse only when it supports that phrase.
  • The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.

Practice room

60–90 quarter-note BPM for short study fragments; slow the source as needed

Your assignment

Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.

Loop these changes

  • Learn the first complete melody phrase without adding fills. Alternate that phrase between two registers, keeping its pickup, articulation and ending identical; only then add a short answer in the gap.
  • Return to the selected recording after each short loop. Confirm the entry, release and next phrase cue before extending the passage.

Metronome

Use a quiet quarter-note click for short loops. Keep the preceding rest and the next entry in the loop; remove the click briefly to test internal time.

Transposition

  • After learning the chosen fragment and its actual harmony, move that fragment to one nearby key by naming the target notes. Do not transpose an unverified progression.

At the session

Confirm the composition identity, concert key and complete arrangement before calling the tune. Agree pickup and ending together.

Start together

  • Use the chosen recording’s entry cue only after checking its phrase length.

Finish together

  • Agree a plain final arrival and a visible cutoff; do not assume a live video’s tag is universal.

The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.

  • The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.

Arranging the tune

Solo guitar

Begin with the melody alone, then add only independently established bass arrivals. Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.

Trio or larger group

Keep chord changes connected with the nearest available inner voice. Leave the lead instrument’s long notes clear rather than filling every held melody note.

Vocal considerations

Follow the song’s breathing where a vocal version exists. Establish the singer’s key independently; lyrics are not reproduced here.

Sources & credits

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

Djangopedia full discography ↗

Reissue publisher booklet and track listing ↗

  • Source-attributed title, credit and recording context; conflicts are stated rather than treated as resolved.
Illustration credit & provenance

Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia

Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood; not a documented historical scene.

Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-19; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.

Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Create one horizontal 1536x1024, 3:2 original Djangopedia tune illustration for Marie. Scene: A violinist in a cream jacket and a guitarist in a dark suit face each other across a small round table; a tall potted plant and one warm hanging lamp establish a graceful lyrical cafe. Medium: 1950s serigraph editorial print, bold simplified flat separate ink layers, elongated expressive angular figures, wiry line accents, subtle off-register overlaps, selective dry-ink texture and small crosshatched areas. Sophisticated mid-century jazz print, witty and musical rather than children's cartoon. Strong asymmetric composition and generous negative space. Palette: ochre, brick red, ink navy and warm cream. Keep all heads and instrument bodies within frame. No words, letters, numbers, labels, watermark, borders, gradients, photorealism or photographed paper. Entirely original composition; not a reproduction of an existing print or a documented historical scene.

Research & rights notes
  • The proposed play-along includes its own score and arrangement. Establish its concert key and chorus length before combining it with another edition.
  • Exact video-to-recording matrix/take associations are not established. Historical rows remain inherited evidence.
  • Complete chart, concert key and full form are not independently verified; none has been invented to increase coverage.