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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
1940
Indecision,OSW 132-1,"Fremeaux FA 310, Classics 831, Affinity AFS 1003, Jazz Time 252707-2, Music Memoria 31005, Mosaic MD6-190(6 CD Set).","1/10/40 - QHCF - Paris - Hubert Rostaing (cl), Django & Joseph (b)Pierre Fouad (d), Josette Dayde (vo)*, Reinhardt(g),Francis Luca,"
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02
1940
Indecision,OSW 143-1 ,"Fremeaux FA 310, Classics 831 ",22/10/40 - Paris - Hubert Rostaing/Aime Barelli..Orchestre feat.Django Reinhardt (g)
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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 explicitly labels these 1940 recordings Indécision (Undecided). This guide documents that inherited French-title identity and links the musical work conceptually to Undecided without merging the archive records.
Tune details
Music: Charlie Shavers
Words: Sid Robin
Documented in archive: 1940
Original key: Not established
Study level: Intermediate; melody, pulse and arrangement awareness
Melody & head
A title-reconciliation guide to the 1940 Indécision recordings of Undecided.
Indifférence is a different work and is excluded; an alternate title does not justify merging historical rows.
Study the inherited Django recording evidence
A title-reconciliation guide to the 1940 Indécision recordings of Undecided.
Session evidence
Indecision,OSW 132-1,"Fremeaux FA 310, Classics 831, Affinity AFS 1003, Jazz Time 252707-2, Music Memoria 31005, Mosaic MD6-190(6 CD Set).","1/10/40 - QHCF - Paris - Hubert Rostaing (cl), Django & Joseph (b)Pierre Fouad (d), Josette Dayde (vo)*, Reinhardt(g),Francis Luca,"
Use a verified Undecided arrangement as the work-level reference, then compare the 1940 head and introduction. Keep recording-specific differences separate from the underlying song. Check the video key before playing with the chart.
Chart & Form
Use a verified Undecided arrangement as the work-level reference, then compare the 1940 head and introduction. Keep recording-specific differences separate from the underlying song.
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.
Undecided (150 bpm) - Gypsy jazz Backing track / Jazz manouche
Guitare Improvisation
Swing · 150 BPM · 5m23s · 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 guitarist pauses at a fork in a geometric city path; two contrasting coloured routes loop back toward the same small cafe, playful visual uncertainty.
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
Use a verified Undecided arrangement as the work-level reference, then compare the 1940 head and introduction. Keep recording-specific differences separate from the underlying song.
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 one repeated phrase and vary only its final note at the next cadence. Compare the resulting phrase with both the French-title recording and a modern Undecided performance.
Comping & voicings
Maintain even four-beat accompaniment under the recurring head. Agree any introduction or interlude before using another version’s chart.
Voicing note sets
Maintain even four-beat accompaniment under the recurring head. Agree any introduction or interlude before using another version’s chart.
Keep the accompaniment clear
First establish an even pulse; add rhythmic variation only when the melody leaves space.
Indifférence is a different work and is excluded; an alternate title does not justify merging historical rows.
Practice room
80–120 bpm, then increase gradually
Your assignment
Learn one repeated phrase and vary only its final note at the next cadence. Compare the resulting phrase with both the French-title recording and a modern Undecided performance.
Loop these changes
Learn one repeated phrase and vary only its final note at the next cadence. Compare the resulting phrase with both the French-title recording and a modern Undecided performance.
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.
Indifférence is a different work and is excluded; an alternate title does not justify merging historical rows.
Indifférence is a different work and is excluded; an alternate title does not justify merging historical rows.
Arranging the tune
Solo guitar
Keep the melody uppermost and begin with a single bass note under each harmony. Maintain even four-beat accompaniment under the recurring head. Agree any introduction or interlude before using another version’s chart.
Trio or larger group
Maintain even four-beat accompaniment under the recurring head. Agree any introduction or interlude before using another version’s chart.
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 Indécision. Original scene: A guitarist pauses at a fork in a geometric city path; two contrasting coloured routes loop back toward the same small cafe, playful visual uncertainty. 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: slate blue, dusty pink, pale butter yellow and ink black. 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.
Same-work relationship with the existing Undecided guide is documented; this distinct archive identity is intentionally retained.
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.
Undecided (150 bpm) - Gypsy jazz Backing track / Jazz manoucheGuitare ImprovisationSwing · 150 BPM · 5m23s · 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
Undecided - Gypsy Jazz Backing Track 200 BPM - Django ReinhardtHot Club de FranceSwing · 200 BPM · 4m · 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.Select video