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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
1937
Baby Won't You Please.., 19/11/37, OLA 1980-1 ,"Fremeaux 306, Affinity AFS 1003"," - Paris - Bill Coleman (tpt), Frank ""Big Boy"" Goudie (cl&ts), Christian Wagner (cl&as), Emil Stern (p), Django Reinhardt (g), Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (d)"
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02
1937
Baby Won't You Please.., 19/11/37, OLA 1980-2,"Fremeaux 306, Swing SW 8419"," - Paris - Bill Coleman (tpt), Frank ""Big Boy"" Goudie (cl&ts), Christian Wagner (cl&as), Emil Stern (p), Django Reinhardt (g), Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (d)"
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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
The publisher lists two November 1937 takes with Bill Coleman. Keep OLA 1980-1 and OLA 1980-2 separate even when an online upload omits its take number.
Tune details
Music: Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Words: Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Documented in archive: 1937
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A compact song for practising short answers, rests and the difference between two recorded takes.
The archive has two takes; matching the song title alone cannot identify which one a video contains.
A compact song for practising short answers, rests and the difference between two recorded takes.
Session evidence
Baby Won't You Please.., 19/11/37, OLA 1980-1 ,"Fremeaux 306, Affinity AFS 1003"," - Paris - Bill Coleman (tpt), Frank ""Big Boy"" Goudie (cl&ts), Christian Wagner (cl&as), Emil Stern (p), Django Reinhardt (g), Lucien Simoens (b), Jerry Mengo (d)"
First identify the short answering phrases and their bass arrivals in one recording. Without a verified grid, build the chorus map from those audible landmarks before adding substitutions. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Chart & Form
First identify the short answering phrases and their bass arrivals in one recording. Without a verified grid, build the chorus map from those audible landmarks before adding substitutions.
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.
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home - Gypsy Jazz Backing Track 165 BPM - Django Reinhardt
Hot Club de France
Swing · 165 BPM · 5m14s · 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
A lit apartment window, an empty chair and a small guitar leaning against it; a returning figure with a hat seen through the doorway, warm and welcoming.
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood. It does not depict a documented historical event.
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
First identify the short answering phrases and their bass arrivals in one recording. Without a verified grid, build the chorus map from those audible landmarks before adding substitutions.
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.
Learn the opening answer by ear. Play it once, leave an equal length of silence, then answer with the same rhythm ending on the next verified harmony.
Comping & voicings
Keep a light pulse under the conversational head. When a horn or voice holds a note, release your chord cleanly and leave room for its vibrato.
Voicing note sets
Keep a light pulse under the conversational head. When a horn or voice holds a note, release your chord cleanly and leave room for its vibrato.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
The archive has two takes; matching the song title alone cannot identify which one a video contains.
Practice room
80–120 bpm, then increase gradually
Your assignment
Learn the opening answer by ear. Play it once, leave an equal length of silence, then answer with the same rhythm ending on the next verified harmony.
Loop these changes
Learn the opening answer by ear. Play it once, leave an equal length of silence, then answer with the same rhythm ending on the next verified harmony.
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 archive has two takes; matching the song title alone cannot identify which one a video contains.
The archive has two takes; matching the song title alone cannot identify which one a video contains.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Keep a light pulse under the conversational head. When a horn or voice holds a note, release your chord cleanly and leave room for its vibrato.
Trio or larger group
Keep a light pulse under the conversational head. When a horn or voice holds a note, release your chord cleanly and leave room for its vibrato.
Vocal considerations
Choose a comfortable singing key and transpose the accompaniment as a whole; 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.
Original AI-assisted illustration created for Djangopedia
Original AI-assisted editorial artwork inspired by the tune’s mood. It does not depict a documented historical event.
Generated with the native image-generation tool on 2026-10-19; original editorial artwork, not a historical photograph.
Prompt: Use case: stylized-concept. Asset: horizontal 1536x1024, 3:2 Djangopedia tune illustration for Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home. Original scene: A lit apartment window, an empty chair and a small guitar leaning against it; a returning figure with a hat seen through the doorway, warm and welcoming. Medium: authentic-feeling 1950s silk-screen editorial print, flat separate ink layers, boldly simplified shapes, long expressive angular silhouettes, spare wiry line accents, off-register overlaps, small areas of crosshatching, slight dry ink and paper texture. Strong asymmetric composition with generous negative space; witty and musical, sophisticated rather than children's cartoon. Limited palette: muted violet, turquoise, warm ivory and charcoal. All heads and instrument bodies wholly inside frame unless otherwise specified. No letters, words, numbers, captions, borders, logos, watermark, realistic shading, gradients or photographed paper. Invent an entirely new composition, not a reproduction of any existing print. No claim of a documented historical scene.
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.
Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home - Gypsy Jazz Backing Track 165 BPM - Django ReinhardtHot Club de FranceSwing · 165 BPM · 5m14s · 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.✓ Featured
Trad Jazz Play Along - Baby Won't You Please Come Home FTraditional Jazz Backing Tracks3m23s · 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.Select video