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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
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Doin' The New Low Down,OSW 11-1 ,"Fremeaux 307, Classics 777, Swing SW 8419, Jazz Time 789604-2","Same date - Philippe Brun (c), Alix Combelle (cl), Noel Chiboust (ts), Stephane Grappelly (p), Django Reinhardt (g),Louis Vola (b), Maurice Chaillou (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
This dance song is associated with the Fields–McHugh repertory. The archive preserves an OSW 11-1 row whose structured year is unresolved; no year is invented here.
Tune details
Music: Jimmy McHugh
Words: Dorothy Fields
Documented in archive: Not established
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A dance-rhythm study in repeated cells, deliberate rests and steady accompaniment.
The recording’s unresolved structured year remains unresolved even when a video title supplies a date.
Study the inherited Django recording evidence
A dance-rhythm study in repeated cells, deliberate rests and steady accompaniment.
Session evidence
Doin' The New Low Down,OSW 11-1 ,"Fremeaux 307, Classics 777, Swing SW 8419, Jazz Time 789604-2","Same date - Philippe Brun (c), Alix Combelle (cl), Noel Chiboust (ts), Stephane Grappelly (p), Django Reinhardt (g),Louis Vola (b), Maurice Chaillou (d)"
Learn the rhythmic hook first. Follow the bass arrivals after each repeated figure to distinguish the head’s syncopations from the underlying pulse. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Chart & Form
Learn the rhythmic hook first. Follow the bass arrivals after each repeated figure to distinguish the head’s syncopations from the underlying pulse.
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.
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
Close view of a pair of stylish two-tone dancing shoes and sharply bent trouser legs, with a clarinet and guitar silhouette above; exuberant diagonal rhythm.
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
Learn the rhythmic hook first. Follow the bass arrivals after each repeated figure to distinguish the head’s syncopations from the underlying pulse.
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.
Clap the opening figure, rest for its full length, then answer it on guitar with two chord tones. Count aloud through both the sound and the silence.
Comping & voicings
Keep four light beats under the dance rhythm. Do not double every melody accent or add unannounced stops.
Voicing note sets
Keep four light beats under the dance rhythm. Do not double every melody accent or add unannounced stops.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
The recording’s unresolved structured year remains unresolved even when a video title supplies a date.
Practice room
80–120 bpm, then increase gradually
Your assignment
Clap the opening figure, rest for its full length, then answer it on guitar with two chord tones. Count aloud through both the sound and the silence.
Loop these changes
Clap the opening figure, rest for its full length, then answer it on guitar with two chord tones. Count aloud through both the sound and the silence.
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 recording’s unresolved structured year remains unresolved even when a video title supplies a date.
The recording’s unresolved structured year remains unresolved even when a video title supplies a date.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Keep four light beats under the dance rhythm. Do not double every melody accent or add unannounced stops.
Trio or larger group
Keep four light beats under the dance rhythm. Do not double every melody accent or add unannounced stops.
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’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 Doin’ the New Low-Down. Original scene: Close view of a pair of stylish two-tone dancing shoes and sharply bent trouser legs, with a clarinet and guitar silhouette above; exuberant diagonal rhythm. 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: ochre, brick red, ink navy and warm cream. 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.
Historical recording year remains unresolved in the inherited row.
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.
