1.Minor Swing
2.Paris 
3.Toulouse Blues
4.September Song 
5.Rue de Pierre 
6.Djangology
7.Mirage 
8.Daphne 
9.Ornithology/How High the Moon 

Bireli Lagrene (acoustic guitar)
Jan Jankeje (bass)
Diz Dizley (rhythm guitar)
Vic Juris (guitar)

Recorded at the Carnegie Hall N.Y.C., June 22, 1984, except track 7, recorded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in July 1981.

Guitarist Bireli Lagrene commenced his career as a teenage prodigy, performing the music of famed gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. Lagrene, also a gypsy, furthered the lineage of Django's distinctive style and influence while displaying unbelievable maturity and chops for such a young lad. As time moved on, the guitarist experimented within various styles, performing with guitarist Larry Coryell, the late bassist Jaco Pastorious, and releasing some relatively uneven recordings for Blue Note records. Essentially, the artist failed to achieve the anticipated notoriety in the United States, while this two-CD set features material recorded between 1984-1985 at New York City's Carnegie Hall and the Freiburg Jazz Festival. Here, Lagrene is backed by a bassist and either one or two rhythm guitarists as they perform the leader's originals, Rheinhardt compositions, and other works. However, American guitarist Vic Juris joins Lagrene on several pieces, including a vibrant and altogether gorgeous rendition of Chick Corea's "Spain" and a peppery spin on Charlie Parker's "Ornithology." Hence, these recordings find a then-teenage Lagrene in top form. ---Glenn Astarita, Rovi

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1.Bireli 
2.Minor Swing
3.Spain
4.Paris
5.Rue de Pierre
6.Ornithology 
7.Sim
8.Nuits de St. Germain des Près 
9.The Night of a Champion 
10.I Can't Give You Anything but Love 
11.Moll-Blues 

Bireli Lagrene, Vic Juris - guitar
Jan Jankeje - acoustic bass
Diz Disley - rhythm guitar
Gaiti Lagrene - rhythm guitar

Bireli Lagrene on 'The Night of a champion' electric bass
Bireli Lagrene on the right channel, Vic Juris on the left channel
Recorded the 1st and 2nd of June 1985 in Freiburg/Germany at the Jazz Festival.

Among the Roma, the guitar tradition that spawned Django Reinhardt is still going strong, and after a heady start as a child prodigy, Bireli Lagrene, born in 1966, has established himself as a true virtuoso in the wake of Django. He still talks longingly about a childhood spent around campfires playing guitars into the small hours, although he'd cut his first albums at 14 and launched a career far away from his home region of the Rhine country west of Strasbourg. Acclaimed as a fusion guitarist, he has worked with Jaco Pastorius and Larry Coryell, as well as touring with Gil Evans, but he has always retained his skill on and affection for the acoustic instrument, and on this album his reinterpretation of a Django gem such as “Minor Swing” shows how brilliantly he interprets the traditional repertoire. ---wonderingsound.com

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