A nursery-rhyme melody becomes swing repertoire in the Fitzgerald–Feldman treatment. Compare the compact sung phrase with the spaces an instrumental soloist can leave around it.
If you study one thing
Sing one short question and its answer, then play them on a single string.
MeterConfirm against the chosen arrangement; no historical metre inferred from the title
MusicElla Fitzgerald, Al Feldman / Van Alexander
Guide coverage8 / 12 sections present
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✓ Django recording
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✓ 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
Entry
Year
Recording / session / release evidence
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1950
A Tisket a Tasket, 1950, CW12,"Fremeaux FA 318, RCA ND 70929-2, Dejavu CD 32","Rome - Django Reinhardt (elg), Andre Ekyan (as,cl), Ralph Schecroun (p) Alf Masselier (b), Roger Paraboschi (d)"
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History & Listening
A nursery-rhyme melody becomes swing repertoire in the Fitzgerald–Feldman treatment. The inherited Rome 1950 row places Django on electric guitar with André Ekyan, piano, bass and drums. Treat that band setting as part of the interpretation rather than assuming an acoustic Hot Club arrangement.
Tune details
Music: Ella Fitzgerald, Al Feldman / Van Alexander
Documented in archive: 1950
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate listening study; arrangement and source awareness
Melody & head
Compare the compact sung phrase with the spaces an instrumental soloist can leave around it. Follow the melody through the band texture before following the guitar fills.
Do not confuse the date of Django’s Rome recording with the date of the nursery rhyme or the swing adaptation. A verified complete chart and arrangement key are still missing.
Compare the compact sung phrase with the spaces an instrumental soloist can leave around it. Follow the melody through the band texture before following the guitar fills. Source-attributed credits: Ella Fitzgerald; Al Feldman / Van Alexander
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
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
2017 Australian Jazz Convention.Mondays Gypsy "A-Tisket A-Tasket"
Lochness Tales
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Compare the compact sung phrase with the spaces an instrumental soloist can leave around it. Follow the melody through the band texture before following the guitar fills.
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.
Sing one short question and its answer, then play them on a single string. Record a second pass with one deliberately silent answer; keep the pulse and enter at the same place on the next phrase.
Comping & voicings
Use short, buoyant chord attacks below the melody. With drums present, reduce the weight of the guitar backbeat instead of doubling every accent.
Voicing note sets
Use short, buoyant chord attacks below the melody. With drums present, reduce the weight of the guitar backbeat instead of doubling every accent.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First rehearse the specific phrase entry and release described above; add a chord pulse only when it supports that phrase.
Do not confuse the date of Django’s Rome recording with the date of the nursery rhyme or the swing adaptation. A verified complete chart and arrangement key are still missing.
Practice room
60–90 quarter-note BPM for short study fragments; slow the source as needed
Your assignment
Sing one short question and its answer, then play them on a single string. Record a second pass with one deliberately silent answer; keep the pulse and enter at the same place on the next phrase.
Loop these changes
Sing one short question and its answer, then play them on a single string. Record a second pass with one deliberately silent answer; keep the pulse and enter at the same place on the next phrase.
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.
Do not confuse the date of Django’s Rome recording with the date of the nursery rhyme or the swing adaptation. A verified complete chart and arrangement key are still missing.
Do not confuse the date of Django’s Rome recording with the date of the nursery rhyme or the swing adaptation. A verified complete chart and arrangement key are still missing.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Begin with the melody alone, then add only independently established bass arrivals. Use short, buoyant chord attacks below the melody. With drums present, reduce the weight of the guitar backbeat instead of doubling every accent.
Trio or larger group
Use short, buoyant chord attacks below the melody. With drums present, reduce the weight of the guitar backbeat instead of doubling every accent.
Vocal considerations
Follow the song’s breathing where a vocal version exists. Establish the singer’s key independently; lyrics are not reproduced here.
This player guide combines inherited recording evidence and editorial study notes. Musical study notes are editorial suggestions; compare them with the recording.
Existing recording rows and charts retained without rewriting their data.
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 A Tisket a Tasket. Scene: A small woven basket rests on a cafe chair; two adult dancers and a seated acoustic guitarist exchange playful angular gestures under a striped awning. Broad empty space and three exaggerated leaf shapes. 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: petrol teal, coral red, warm cream and black. 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
Do not confuse the date of Django’s Rome recording with the date of the nursery rhyme or the swing adaptation. A verified complete chart and arrangement key are still missing.
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.
No qualifying tune-specific backing was confirmed in the bounded search.
No qualifying complete Django solo recreation is selected. Other players’ solos, theme lessons and virtual transcriptions do not fill this gap.
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