Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté Biréli Lagrène

• 1Ma cabane au Canada02:37
• 2Rose de Mai03:23
• 3Feelings (Pour toi)04:20
• 4Amour d'été04:43
• 5Trop beau pour être vrai02:32
• 6Pour la bonne raison03:13
• 7Le soir03:51
• 8Sainte-Madeleine03:15
• 9L'âme au diable02:42
• 10If I Love04:18
• 11Ces p'tites choses-là04:38
• 12Django03:37
• Total Runtime43:09

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After twenty studio albums in a career spanning forty years (to which can be added no less than five live albums and as many collaborations with the likes of Marcus Miller, Michel Petrucciani, Lenny White, Kenny Garrett, Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Larry Coryell and Sylvain Luc), Biréli Lagrène returns with his Gipsy Trio (featuring Hono Winterstein and Diego Imbert) to pay tribute to the best-selling composer Loulou Gasté. Line Renaud's manager and husband for 45 years, Loulou Gasté shared with Biréli a boundless admiration for Django Reinhardt, the patron saint of gypsy jazz guitar. So it's with the delighted blessing of the Mademoiselle d'Armentières that Biréli and his gang revisit a dozen emblematic songs, from "Ma Cabane Au Canada" to "Ces P'tites Choses Là". This opportunity will only offend the philistine and the narrow-minded. In fact, not only was Django himself, like many jazzmen of his time, not averse to adapting a few popular hits (which he transformed with his inspiration and his unstoppable playing), but Louis Gasté (known as Loulou) was also a guitarist (and banjoist) with a passion for jazz, and a fervent Django enthusiast (didn't he start out in this position with Ray Ventura's Collégiens?). Particularly noteworthy among this anthology are the obvious successes of 'Un Amour d'Été' (a sensitive bossa in the style of Baden Powell), 'Trop Beau Pour être Vrai', 'Pour La Bonne Raison' and also 'Le soir', 'Sainte-Madeleine' and 'L'Ame Au Diable', all worthy of the master's Hot Club de France period, and of course 'Feelings' ('Pour Toi', even Mike Brant's 'Dis Lui'), the authorship of which was the subject of a Homeric legal battle, which Gasté won in the French and American courts, at the end of a procedure that lasted six years.

Biréli Lagrène, guitar

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