For Django

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{{Infobox album

| name = For Django

| type = studio

| artist = Joe Pass

| cover = ForDjango.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1964|10}}

| recorded = October 1964

| venue =

| studio = Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood

| genre = Jazz

| length = {{Duration|m=32|s=17}}

| label = Pacific

| producer = Richard Bock

| prev_title = Joy Spring

| prev_year = 1964

| next_title = A Sign of the Times

| next_year = 1965

}}

For Django is an album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass that contains renditions of compositions famously interpreted by, written about or written for Django Reinhardt.{{cite web|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|title=For Django|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/for-django-mw0000048149|website=AllMusic|accessdate=21 December 2017}}

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 =Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Swenson|editor1-first=John|title=The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen|url-access=registration|date=1985|publisher=Rolling Stone|location=New York|isbn=0-394-72643-X|edition=1}}

}}

In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote that the album was long considered a classic and that "Although Pass was actually more strongly influenced by Charlie Christian than by Reinhardt and he had already formed his own style, he has no difficulty fitting into the music."

Track listing

  1. "Django" (John Lewis) – 3:22
  2. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) – 3:07
  3. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt, Jacques Larue) – 2:35
  4. "For Django" (Pass) – 2:55
  5. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 3:46
  6. "Fleur d'Ennui" (Reinhardt) – 2:57
  7. "Insensiblement" (Paul Misraki) – 3:14
  8. "Cavalerie" (Reinhardt) – 4:26
  9. "Django's Castle" (Reinhardt) – 3:49
  10. "Limehouse Blues" (Douglas Furber, Philip Braham) – 2:14

Personnel

Charts

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|+ Chart performance for For Django

! scope="col"| Chart (2022)

! scope="col"| Peak
position

{{album chart|Germany4|38|id=491652|artist=Joe Pass|album=For Django|rowheader=true|access-date=February 25, 2022}}

References