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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.
2 historical recording entries · source text preserved
Entry
Year
Recording / session / release evidence
Listen
01
1935
Miss Otis Regrets,CPT 1857 ,"Fremeaux FA 303, Classics 703",4/3/35 - Paris - Patrick et Son Orchestre featuring Django Reinhardt (g).
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02
1936
Miss Otis Regrets,Fremeaux FA 304,29/2/36 - Jean Sablon and Friends
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A dash means no video has been associated with this exact historical recording. Tune-level listening resources remain available above.
History & Listening
Porter’s narrative song appears in the archive in more than one context. A later informal medley or vocal fragment is not evidence of a full Django guitar performance.
Tune details
Music: Cole Porter
Words: Cole Porter
Documented in archive: 1935
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A narrative-ballad study in patience, phrase endings and accompaniment that follows the lead.
The Miss Otis Regrets/Blue Drag clip contains more than one tune and is not a certified complete solo study.
Study the inherited Django recording evidence
A narrative-ballad study in patience, phrase endings and accompaniment that follows the lead.
Session evidence
Miss Otis Regrets,CPT 1857 ,"Fremeaux FA 303, Classics 703",4/3/35 - Paris - Patrick et Son Orchestre featuring Django Reinhardt (g).
Follow the dramatic melody and its phrase endings before choosing accompaniment density. A complete score is needed before treating spoken-style phrasing as free metre. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Chart & Form
Follow the dramatic melody and its phrase endings before choosing accompaniment density. A complete score is needed before treating spoken-style phrasing as free metre.
No complete verified chart is supplied. The exercises are listening and practice suggestions, not a substitute score.
No readable chord chart has been added for this title.
Swing · 96 BPM · 7m13s · Video available when checked; creator-described attribution.
Creator-provided play-along; instrumentation and feel vary by selection. Check the key and full arrangement before joining in; the guide chart may use another key. Tempo is the creator’s stated value.
Performed studies, transcriptions, TAB, notation and lessons for studying Django’s solo. Inclusion does not certify note-for-note accuracy.
No Django solo study aid yet. Know a useful resource — or want to record a study of this solo?
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
Owner-selected illustration. An impeccably dressed butler holds a sealed unlettered envelope at a closed dining-room door; a small untouched table and empty chair suggest a tragic absence. Dark restrained Cole Porter narrative irony, no violence or comic trivialization of the tragedy.
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune; not a documented historical scene.
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Selected performances by notable Gypsy Jazz players and ensembles. Inclusion is editorial and does not imply an objective popularity ranking.
Notable Gypsy Jazz performances are being curated.
Improvisation
Target notes & voice leading
Follow the dramatic melody and its phrase endings before choosing accompaniment density. A complete score is needed before treating spoken-style phrasing as free metre.
Sing the destination note before playing the connecting phrase.
Pitch choices
Begin with the named chord tones. Add passing notes only after the melody and cadence are secure.
Speak the rhythm of one phrase without quoting lyrics, then sing its melody. Play a short answer only after the phrase has fully ended.
Comping & voicings
Keep the accompaniment quiet and allow expressive delivery without losing the underlying count. Agree any rubato opening in advance.
Voicing note sets
Keep the accompaniment quiet and allow expressive delivery without losing the underlying count. Agree any rubato opening in advance.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
The Miss Otis Regrets/Blue Drag clip contains more than one tune and is not a certified complete solo study.
Practice room
55–90 bpm
Your assignment
Speak the rhythm of one phrase without quoting lyrics, then sing its melody. Play a short answer only after the phrase has fully ended.
Loop these changes
Speak the rhythm of one phrase without quoting lyrics, then sing its melody. Play a short answer only after the phrase has fully ended.
Metronome
Count quarter notes first. Then place the click on beats 2 and 4 at half the click rate, keeping the phrase length unchanged.
Transposition
Move one short cadence to a nearby key by naming its chord tones, then return to the chosen study key.
At the session
Confirm the chosen arrangement key; Confirm the complete form. Agree the arrangement, pickup and ending before counting in.
Start together
Count a clear tempo and use the final cadence of the agreed arrangement.
Finish together
Cue the final tonic together; agree any tag before starting.
The Miss Otis Regrets/Blue Drag clip contains more than one tune and is not a certified complete solo study.
The Miss Otis Regrets/Blue Drag clip contains more than one tune and is not a certified complete solo study.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Keep the accompaniment quiet and allow expressive delivery without losing the underlying count. Agree any rubato opening in advance.
Trio or larger group
Keep the accompaniment quiet and allow expressive delivery without losing the underlying count. Agree any rubato opening in advance.
Vocal considerations
Choose a comfortable singing key and transpose the accompaniment as a whole; 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.
Source-attributed title, performer and recording context; not a claim that every inherited field is independently verified.
Inherited chart and recording evidence
Original archive evidence retained.
Illustration credit & provenance
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune; not a documented historical scene.
Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-26; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Create one finished original landscape 1536x1024 (3:2) raster illustration for Djangopedia, tune Miss Otis Regrets.
Tune context for interpretation only: Porter’s narrative song appears in the archive in more than one context. A later informal medley or vocal fragment is not evidence of a full Django guitar performance.
Scene: An impeccably dressed butler holds a sealed unlettered envelope at a closed dining-room door; a small untouched table and empty chair suggest a tragic absence. Dark restrained Cole Porter narrative irony, no violence or comic trivialization of the tragedy.
Art direction: Minimal mid-century musical still-life print: crisp hand-cut shapes, ingenious symbolic composition, uneven hand-pulled ink edges, very few carefully chosen details. Palette: deep indigo, dusty turquoise, burnt orange and warm paper. Subtle dry ink and paper texture, controlled print misregistration. Make it an artwork with a memorable singular idea, readable as a thumbnail and rewarding at full size; vary viewpoint and composition.
Constraints: entirely original composition, not a copy of an artist's print. No title, words, notation, logos or watermark. No photorealism, glossy 3D, gradients, airbrushed romantic haze, generic sunset or decorative hearts. If Django appears, swept-back dark hair, pencil moustache and a distinct mature individual face; period clothes, no ethnic stereotypes. Respect plausible instruments and hands, keep key subjects within frame. Use strong flat ink shapes rather than photorealistic rendering.
Research & rights notes
Exact video-to-matrix/take associations are not established. Historical rows remain inherited evidence.
No complete chart is present in the inherited archive. Learn from one verified arrangement and establish its roadmap before a jam.
No chart key is asserted; verify the concert key of the chosen recording or accompaniment.
The original composition/publication year has not been independently established for this guide; recording years are separate evidence.
No new qualifying notable-performance resource selected in this bounded batch.
No qualifying Django solo-study recreation selected. Other players’ solos and melody lessons do not fill this gap.
