The publisher lists To Each His Own in the Rome 1949 sequence. This standalone song study is distinct from the 1948 To Each His Own / Symphonie medley. Listen for the sustained song melody and its breath before the answering phrase.
If you study one thing
Play the melody’s outer notes first, preserving rests and note lengths.
FeelSource-specific phrasing; establish the recorded pulse
MeterFollow the documented arrangement; no metre inferred from title
MusicJay Livingston
Guide coverage8 / 12 sections present
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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.
1 historical recording entries · source text preserved
Entry
Year
Recording / session / release evidence
Listen
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1949
To Each His Own,CW 41,"Fremeaux FA 317, Jazz Time 827447-2","Jan-Feb 1949 - Rome - Django Reinhardt (g), Stephane Grappelly (v),Gianni Safred (p), Carlo Pecori (b), Aurelio de Carolis (d)"
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History & Listening
The publisher lists To Each His Own in the Rome 1949 sequence. This standalone song study is distinct from the 1948 To Each His Own / Symphonie medley.
Tune details
Music: Jay Livingston
Words: Ray Evans
Documented in archive: 1949
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate listening work; advanced arrangement and source awareness
Melody & head
Listen for the sustained song melody and its breath before the answering phrase.
Do not assign the 1948 medley matrix to this Rome performance. The original concert key and complete chart remain unverified.
Listen for the sustained song melody and its breath before the answering phrase. Source-attributed credits: Source-attributed credit: Jay Livingston. Roles follow the cited source; legal rights are not certified.
Chart & Form
Establish the melody, bass arrivals and actual phrase length before assigning chord functions. Play the melody’s outer notes first, preserving rests and note lengths. Restore the interior notes slowly, then try the phrase in a nearby key.
Inherited notation retained exactly. No new complete chart, concert key or take-specific transcription is certified.
No readable chord chart has been added for this title.
Play along
No backing track has been added.
Study Django's Solo
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
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
DjangoKOR’s intro/theme arrangement study. A short theme resource, not a full solo recreation and not the separate 1948 medley.
Practice room
Slow phrase practice, adjusted to the chosen source; no historical BPM asserted
Your assignment
Play the melody’s outer notes first, preserving rests and note lengths. Restore the interior notes slowly, then try the phrase in a nearby key.
Loop these changes
Play the melody’s outer notes first, preserving rests and note lengths. Restore the interior notes slowly, then try the phrase in a nearby key.
Let held melody notes ring above a restrained chord pulse. Practise the cadence release separately from any recorded tag.
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.
Do not assign the 1948 medley matrix to this Rome performance. The original concert key and complete chart remain unverified.
Do not assign the 1948 medley matrix to this Rome performance. The original concert key and complete chart remain unverified.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Begin with the melody alone, then add only independently established bass arrivals. Let held melody notes ring above a restrained chord pulse. Practise the cadence release separately from any recorded tag.
Trio or larger group
Let held melody notes ring above a restrained chord pulse. Practise the cadence release separately from any recorded tag.
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.
Work/arrangement identity, source credit and recording context; inherited rows retained.
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 2026-10-21; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Asset: one original Djangopedia tune illustration, landscape 1536x1024, 3:2. Title context only, do not write words: To Each His Own.
Scene: A guitarist and pianist each adjust a different small stool with exaggerated precision before playing. Gentle dry humour about individual phrasing, strong asymmetrical flat shapes, no romantic couple.
Style: witty 1950s cartoon serigraph, dry graphic and unsentimental. Confident chunky contours, flat separate ink shapes, mildly exaggerated expressive adult faces and hands, humorous posture, strong asymmetric composition. Limited palette: aubergine, mustard, charcoal and warm cream. Slight screen-print misregistration and occasional dry ink texture, generous clean paper. No gradients or glossy shading.
Django-like guitarist where present: documented swept-back dark hair and thin pencil moustache, individual mature face. Supporting adults are distinct individuals in historically informed 1930s–1940s jazz-circle clothing. No ethnic caricatures or stereotypes. Keep heads, hands and instrument bodies within the frame, plausible instrument anatomy.
No text, letters, numerals, notation, logos, watermark, border, photorealism, dreamy sunset, hearts or romantic haze. Imagined editorial scene, not a documented event. Entirely original composition, no reproduction of an existing artist’s print.
Research & rights notes
Do not assign the 1948 medley matrix to this Rome performance. The original concert key and complete chart remain unverified.
Complete chart, concert key and full form remain unverified.
No new exact historical recording_ref/video association is asserted.
No qualifying tune-specific backing selected in this bounded search; no generic or wrong-work backing substituted.
No complete performed Django solo recreation selected. Any score-following or partial study is labelled explicitly.
