For Django
Studio album by
Joe Pass
ReleasedOctober 1964 (1964-10)
RecordedOctober 1964
StudioPacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood
GenreJazz
Length32:17
LabelPacific
ProducerRichard Bock
Joe Pass chronology
Joy Spring
(1964)		 For Django
(1964)		 A Sign of the Times
(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.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

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."[1]

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

Chart performance for For Django
Chart (2022) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[3] 38

References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. "For Django". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide (1 ed.). New York: Rolling Stone. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Joe Pass – For Django" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
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