THE LONDON DJANGO COLLECTIVE

2019 - 2020 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY

GIACOMO SMITH - CLARINET
HARRY DIPLOCK - GUITAR
JEREMIE COULLON - GUITAR
KOUROSH KANANI - GUITAR
MATT HOLBORN - VIOLIN
PETE THOMAS - BASS
ROBIN KATZ - GUITAR
SIMON READ - BASS

THE LONDON DJANGO COLLECTIVE was born out of the desire to create a local and innovative forum for musicians influenced by the musical legacy of Django Reinhardt. The Collective remains in the spirit of Django, whilst pushing the genre of gypsy jazz forward into the vibrant London jazz scene.

The London Django Collective self released 5 EPs over 2019 and 2020, each showcasing a different musician in the band and their original composition style. Volume 1-5 is now available as a digital album.

THE DIME NOTES

2020 LJCD23

DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET
ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
LOUIS THOMAS – DOUBLE BASS

Second title from The Dime Notes, London's blues drenched clarinet-driven 1920’s New Orleans jazz, hard-swinging and very stylish vintage jazz band with its customary repertoire of stomps, blueses, and forgotten gems of the era.

A terrific Clarinettist! From one player to another
ACKER BILK
Andrew Oliver is almost punk-rock in his attitude about Traditional Jazz and bringing back its visceral nature
KMHD JAZZ RADIO USA
Dave Kelbie, the rhythmic rumbling of a folksy freight train
ALL ABOUT JAZZ USA
Andrew Oliver is the quintessential musician’s musician
EVAN CHRISTOPHER
Horniblow’s playing is nimble, incisive and assured
JAZZ JOURNAL
Dave Kelbie’s rhythm guitar is undoubtedly one of the best in the world
CLASSICA FRANCE

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EVAN CHRISTOPHER 2020
Evan Christopher explores the art of the New Orleans Trio with two classic instrumentations featured.

TRIO 1. DON VAPPIE – BANJO, PETER HARRIS – DOUBLE BASS
TRIO 2. KRIS TOKARSKI – PIANO, BENNY AMON – DRUMS

DON VAPPIE & JAZZ CRÉOLE 2019 LJCD22

DON VAPPIE – BANJO/VOICE
DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
SÉBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2020 - THE TIMES UK
BEST OF THE BEAT NOMINATION 2020 - OFFBEAT USA

Award winning Créole Banjoist guitarist vocalist, considered one of the best banjoists in the history of New Orleans and credited with preserving Créole culture.

he can start the party with his banjo, he sure can!
IGGY POP
it’s about time someone showed the jazz world what the banjo really can do
THE OBSERVER UK
Mr Vappie is a born storyteller
JAZZ DA GAMA CANADA
Beautifully recorded, you can hear right around the instruments, … Gorgeous!
CLARE TEAL, BBC
jazz virtuosity with buoyant blues riffs and a splash of Caribbean rhythms
THE TIMES UK
Lejazzetal’s reputation goes before it, this new Don Vappie album serves to reaffirm it
BEBOP SPOKEN HERE UK

BABY DODDS TRIO 1946 – BCD-50

Pure jazz history from 1946! Reissue of a classic jazz album led Baby Dodds

ALBERT NICHOLAS (CLT)
DON EWELL (PNO)
POP'S FOSTER (BS)
DANNY BARKER (GTR)
JAMES P JOHNSON (PNO)

ANDREW OLIVER & DAVID HORNIBLOW

2019 – LJCD21

THE TIMES TOP 10 JAZZ ALBUMS 2019

ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET, BASS SAX, BASS CLARINET, ALTO

A new perspective on one of America’s most important musical figures of the 20th century by Andrew Oliver and David Horniblow
Andrew Oliver and David Horniblow spent 2018 recording all of Jelly Roll Morton’s compositions, and each week posted two new tunes to this Youtube channel. Jelly Roll Morton was a jazz piano pioneer from New Orleans, and is regarded as the first great composer in the field of Jazz. Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe and lived from October 20, 1890 to July 10, 1941

brilliantly played and madly enjoyable. JAZZ JOURNAL UK
Compelling, soulful and huge fun. THE SUNDAY TIMES UK
A sensational new album … two extraordinary musicians. JAZZ WAX USA
They’re fantastic… spirited and accomplished performances. THE GUARDIAN UK
they venerate Morton but also play him, with wondrous results. JAZZ LIVES USA
Expertise, eloquance and good taste that is both rare and welcome. JAZZ DA GAMA CANADA
They amaze with the depth, nuance and rhythm they draw out of each of these titles. SYNCOPATED TIMES

THE DIME NOTES 2016 – LJCD16

ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
TOM WHEATLEY – DOUBLE BASS

Lovingly curated examples of great music from the ancestral repertoire of jazz
JAZZ DA GAMA USA

LES VIOLONS DE BRUXELLES

2019 – LJCD20

THE TIMES TOP 10 JAZZ ALBUMS 2019

TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN VOCALS
RENAUD CROLS – VIOLIN
ALEXANDRE TRIPODI – VIOLA
RENAUD DARDENNE – GUITAR
SAM GERSTMANS – DOUBLE BASS

Second recording of Les Violons from Brussels and their original take on the string orchestra. Les Violons de Bruxelles take the traditional set-up of the legendary Hot Club de France Quintet, of violin, solo guitar, two rhythm guitars, double bass, and turn it on its head.

Impossible to bear witness to perfection on such a scale -JAZZ DA GAMA USA
music that goes far beyond the canon of swing - JAZZ HOT FRANCE
stunningly beautiful and completely unique - MOORS MAGAZINE NETHERLANDS
Limberger at the top of his game - WORLD MUSIC REPORT USA
goes far beyond the only guns of swing - JAZZ HOT FRANCE
A gamble, and a successful one - AGENDA MAGAZINE FRANCE
A magnificent album! - MOORS MUSIC NETHERLANDS

ELI YAMIN & EVAN CHRISTOPHER 2013

Eli Yamin, pianist, jazz & blues ambassador and composer of jazz musicals teams up with New Orleans-based clarinetist Evan Christopher.

ELI YAMIN – PIANO
EVAN CHRISTOPHER – CLARINET

DON VAPPIE 2005 VR-CD0503

Four-string banjo jazz with one of the 21st century’s greatest practitioners, from the city where jazz was born! With many of his Creole Jazz Serenaders and more of New Orleans’ finest. ​

this CD is alive and hot
THE RESONATOR US

THE DIME NOTES 2016 – LJLP17

ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
TOM WHEATLEY – DOUBLE BASS

FAPY LAFERTIN & LE JAZZ
2013 – LJCD13

Remastered double CD of the two iconic albums by Fapy Lafertin and Quartet Lejazz, 'Swing Guitars' 1994 and 'Hungaria' 1996. Viewed by many as the finest Gypsy jazz albums since the last recorded releases of Quintet of the Hot Club of France.

FAPY LAFERTIN – GUITAR
STEVE ELSWORTH – VIOLIN
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
PETE FINCH – GUITAR
TONY BEVIR – DOUBLE BASS
GUEST APPEARANCE BY BOB WILBUR – CLARINET

Lafertin is the legitimate heir to Django’s crown
BOB WILBUR USA
Fapy has a sound that might even have made Django envious … a mature guitarist at his peak
VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE USA
With his fiery technique and strong melodic sense, Lafertin takes the recreation of ’30s music one step further
ETUDES TZIGANE FRANCE
Lafertin delves into the realms beyond Django
GUITAR TECHNIQUE USA

DON VAPPIE & THE CREOLE SERENADERS
1998

The subject of a Public Radio International Broadcast radio series entitled “In Search of King Oliver”- a celebration of Joe “King” Oliver’s music.

DJANGO A LA CREOLE
2008 – LJCD09

SUNDAY TIMES top 100 CDs of 2008

EVAN CHRISTOPHER – CLARINET
DAVE BLENKHORN – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
SEBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

HORNIBLOW'S HOT 3 - 2019

Specialist syncopators from the UK and USA with riotous 1920s hot jazz – the original piano trio format at its most stomping.

DAVID HORNIBLOW – CLARINET
ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
NICHOLAS D BALL – TRAPS & WASHBOARD

TRIO TATAVLA
2019 – LJCD19

Tcha Limberger explores the Greek music present in Konstantinoupolis and Asia Minor at the beginning of the 20th century before Rebetiko

DIMOS VOUGIOUKAS – ACCORDION
TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN/VOICE
BENJAMIN CLEMENT – GUITAR

ANDREW OLIVER. 2020 – BSW-2253

Works by Jelly Roll Morton and other early 20th-century piano greats just fly in the hands of this 21st-century virtuoso

Something about his combination of technical brilliance and go-for-broke dynamism that just grabs you
THE GUARDIAN UK

DJANGO A LA CREOLE
2014 – LJCD14

Award winning recording by Dylan Fowler of Studio Felin Fach of the last four concerts of the 2012 Autumn tour, and arranged into a concert-length experience.

EVAN CHRISTOPHER – CLARINET
DAVE BLENKHORN – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
SEBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

SUNDAY TIMES top 10 jazz albums of 2014
DAILY TELEGRAPH top 30 jazz albums of 2014
THE SCOTSMAN top 10 jazz albums of 2014
CTLIVE top 10 jazz albums of 2014
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE top 50 Louisiana Album Releases Of 2014
JAZZTIMES top 50 CDs of 2014
Annual Jazz Critics Poll 2014

Is there a more graceful band at work at the moment?
THE SUNDAY TIMES UK
[Evan] is, in my estimation, not only the greatest jazz clarinetist alive, but one of the greatest of all time
AHMET ERTEGUN, FOUNDING CHAIRMAN OF ATLANTIC RECORDS
A forthright sound and a hungry energy
NEW YORK TIMES

TCHA LIMBERGER TRIO WITH MOZES ROSENBERG
2018 – LJCD18

#8 iTunes GERMANY TOP 200 JAZZ CHART

A recorded performance for Association Art’riege at Jazz à Foix July 23rd, 2015

TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN/VOCALS
MOZES ROSENBERG – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR RHYTHMIQUE
SÉBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

Limberger’s violin seems to translate the whole history and soul of Europe
JAZZ HOT FR
an album to die for
WORLD MUSIC REPORT CANADA
The spirit of the great Django preserved by worthy heirs.
L’ALSACE FR

WHEATLEY'S ARCADIANS

A masterclass in musicianship, musical history, and sheer enjoyment.

this album will bring you both insight and a good time
SYNCOPATED TIMES US

TCHA'S BUDAPEST GYPSY ORCHESTRA
2015 – LJCD15

SONGLINES MUSIC AWARD NOMINATED
Second studio album of Tcha Limberger and his brilliant Budapest Gypsy Orchestra.

TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN, VOCALS
FEHER ISTVAN – CIMBALOM
LUKÁCS CSABA – CLARINET
OLAH NORBERT – BRAC
RUSZO ISTVAN – VIOLIN
SZEGFU KÁROLY – CELLO
VILMOS CSIKOS – DOUBLE BASS

The polymath virtuoso Tcha Limberger is the king of gypsy music
SUNDAY TIMES UK
The stylish sound of what was and what is not
FROOTS UK
Tcha Limberger seems to be made entirely out of music
THE OBSERVER UK
as intoxicating as a vintage dessert wine
SONGLINES UK
simply world class
COMPACT – HOLLAND

HORNIBLOW, OLIVER, WHEATLEY, LOWE, BALL

2019 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY

THE LOUISIANA FIVE played jazz like no other band ever has before or since.
Until now.

ROMANI 2013 – SR1308
Reissue of the cd Romani in the Roots of Gypsy swing series.

KOEN DE CAUTER: SOPRANOSAX, GUITAR, VOCALS, VIOLA
VIVI LIMBERGER: GUITAR, VOCALS
DAJO DE CAUTER: BASS
TCHA LIMBERGER: VIOL, GUIT, VOX

DON VAPPIE & THE CREOLE SERENADERS 2005

For jazz disciples of any stripe, this double dose of Vappie is essential listening
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE US

Vappie stages a dazzling clinic of virtuosity
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE US

MICHAEL MCQUAID
2017 MJM001
Diaspora features Michael with London-based US pianist Andrew Oliver and British drummer Nicholas D. Ball.

MIKE MCQUAID – CLARINET
ANDREW OLIVER – PIANO
NICHOLAS D BALL – DRUMS, PERCUSSION

ANDY AITCHISON QUARTET
2012 – LJCD12

NOMINATION 'BEST TRADITIONAL JAZZ ALBUM 2009” OFFBEAT MAGAZINE

One of the finest violinists in the jazz world and Inspired by Jazz swing legends such as Charlie Christian Benny Goodman and blues artists like BB King.

ANDY AITCHISON – VIOLIN
JEFF GREEN – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
PAUL MOYLAN – DOUBLE BASS

a bluesy, after-hours character all of it’s own
SUNDAY TIMES UK
Breathtaking
ALL ABOUT JAZZ USA
a constant musical feast!
DJANGOSTATION FRANCE
Great players who retain the spirit of the music.
CULTUREJAZZ FRANCE

ANGELO DEBARRE QUARTET
2004 LJCD05

Most exciting Gypsy Jazz band of the time famed for its hard hitting take on some of the later Django compositions.

ANGELO DEBARRE – GUITAR
CHRISTIAN GARRICK – VIOLIN
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
PETE KUBRYK-TOWNSEND – DOUBLE BASS

BAMBOULA FERRET AND FAPY LAFERTIN
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY
2011 – SR 1104

Bamboula’s voice is otherworldly–deep, rough, and well-traveled
VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE USA
Lafertin is the legitimate heir to Django’s crown
BOB WILBUR USA

TCHA'S BUDAPEST GYPSY ORCHESTRA
2010 – LJCD10

Tcha Limberger's first CD under his own name and with the brilliant Budapest Gypsy Orchestra. Recorded 'live' on the band's first tour of the UK in 2009. Mixed and mastered at Stiwdio Felin Fach, Abergavenny.

TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN, VOCALS
FEHER ISTVAN – CIMBALOM
LUKÁCS CSABA – CLARINET
OLAH NORBERT – BRAC
RUSZO ISTVAN – VIOLIN
SZEGFU KÁROLY – CELLO
VILMOS CSIKOS – DOUBLE BASS

The polymath virtuoso Tcha Limberger is the king of gypsy music
SUNDAY TIMES
Tcha Limberger seems to be made entirely out of music
THE OBSERVER UK
Tcha Limberger plays with such love for the tradition one can only sit and listen entirely fascinated
MOORS MAGAZINE HOLLAND
as intoxicating as a vintage dessert wine
SONGLINES UK
simply world class
COMPACT HOLLAND

LUIGI GRASSO
2018 – MS042018CD

Virtuoso saxophonist Luigi Grasso performs original compositions inspired by episodes that marked his tours around the world.

….La grande formation réunie par Luigi Grasso est une véritable révélation…
CLASSICA FR

TOM LANGHAM & MARTIN WHEATLEY 2017

First duo recording by Martin Wheatley and Tom ‘Spats’ Charming and poignant songs of the 1920s and 1930s rendered by Britain’s two acknowledged experts in the field who clearly love their work.

PIERRE CHRISTOPHE
2019 – MS062019CD

One of the best pianists on the French scene today recorded ‘live’ from Smalls Club in New York.

PIERRE CHRISTOPHE – PIANO
JOEL FRAHM – SAX TENOR
JOE MARTIN – DOUBLE BASS

GEORGE WASHINGMACHINE QUARTET
2009 – LJCD08

Released to much critical acclaim the CD was recorded during the band's stay at the Miri international jazz festival in Malaysia in 2008.

GEORGE WASHINGMACHINE – VIOLIN, VOCALS
DAVE BLENKHORN – GUITAR
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
SEBASTIEN GIRARDOT – DOUBLE BASS

they’ll have your feet thumping and your heart pumping
MTV ASIA
it made you want to tap feet, nod your head and smile goofily
THE SARAWAK STAR MALAYSIA
his quartet still swing like crazy
THE JAZZMANN UK
Swings like God’s fire
ETUDES TSIGANE FRANCE
relentless good humour and a band swinging like the clappers. Simply marvellous!
BERNHARD GIERSTL – HOTCLUB NEWS

MARTIN WHEATLEY
2015

Vintage Jazz meets English Pastoral in a highly individual set of compositions. Orchestral textures created by a mass of stringed and keyboard instruments. Quite unique.

JOHN ETHERIDGE'S SWEET CHORUS
2019 – LJCD21

Compilation of three recordings by John Etheridge and his band Sweet Chorus, celebrating 20 years of touring in 2019.

JOHN ETHERIDGE – GUITARS
CHRIS GARRICK – VIOLIN
DAVE KELBIE – RHYTHM GUITAR
ANDY CROWDY – DOUBLE BASS
MALCOLM CREESE – DOUBLE BASS

JOHN ETHERIDGE & VIMALA ROWE 2015 – DY028

JOHN ETHERIDGE – GUITARS
VIMALA ROWE – VOCALS

A rare mix of visceral emotion and jazzy intelligence
SUNDAY TIMES UK
Vimala Rowe is Sensational
THE ARTS DESK

PHILIPPE MILANTA
2018 – MS012018CD

One of the most gifted pianists of his generation, offers us here an original and personal work, as a piano soloist.

PHILIPPE MILANTA – PIANO

SZAPORA
2004 – LJCD06

Multi national Balkan music cooperative legendary for brilliant and mesmerising performances from all over central and Eastern Europe: doina’s from Romania, csardas’ from Hungary and hora’s from Bulgaria.

MIRELLA AND TEA HODZIC – VOCALS, TAMBOURINE
OLIVER WILSON-DICKSON – VIOLIN
BRONISLAV (VANJA) KRAWCZYK – ACCORDION
LUKE CARVER GOSS – ACCORDION
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR, MANDOLIN, TAPAN, VOCALS
DYLAN FOWLER – GUITARS, MANDOCELLO, TAPAN, CLARINET
MIRZA HALILOVIC – VOCALS, GUITAR, DARBUKA
PAUL MOYLAN – DOUBLE BASS
Guests appearances by
Neat Junuzi – Darbuka & Rachel Wilson-Dickson – Violin

energetic and heart-wrenching music, turbo-driven by two accordionists
THE GUARDIAN UK
wild, vibrant, and played with an authority few can match
ACOUSTIC GUITAR USA
spectacular, sensitive, idiomatic and breathtaking
FOLK ROOTS UK
a 10Gb band!
20th CENTURY GUITAR USA

WHEATLEY & The Hula Bluebirds
MARTIN WHEATLEY – GUITAR(S), TENOR GUITAR, HAWAIIAN GUITAR, UKULELE, 5-STRING BANJO, MANDOLIN
DAVE CROFTS – UKELELE
TOM 'SPATS' LANGHAM – GUITAR, TENOR BANJO, UKULELE
JAKE RODRIGUES – GUITAR
MIKE PIGGOTT – VIOLIN, GUITAR
ROGER GRAHAM – DOUBLE BASS

JOHN ETHERIDGE'S SWEET CHORUS
2009 – DY027

a small but beautifully formed band
THE SUNDAY TIMES UK

JOHN ETHERIDGE – GUITAR
CHRIS GARRICK – VIOLIN
DAVE KELBIE – GUITAR
ANDY CROWDY – DOUBLE BASS

DAVE KELBIE & PETE KUBRYK-TOWNSEND

Gypsy Jazz Rhythm Tracks

Europe’s pre-eminent rhythm section in the genre
JOHN ETHERIDGE – GUITAR
What would I have done without The Sauce?
BEN HOLDER – VIOLIN

DAVE KELBIE & PETE KUBRYK-TOWNSEND

Gypsy Jazz Rhythm Tracks

A whole Gene Krupa on guitar rythmique
NEAL WRIGHT – GUITAR
The Sauce rocks!
JOE TOWNSEND – VIOLIN

LES VIOLONS DE BRUXELLES
2012 – 4446093

A fresh and original take on the string orchestra. Les Violons de Bruxelles take the traditional set-up of the legendary Hot Club de France Quintet, of violin, solo guitar, two rhythm guitars, double bass, and turn it on it's head.

TCHA LIMBERGER – VIOLIN, VOCALS
RENAUD CROLS – VIOLIN
ALEXANDRE TRIPODI – VIOLA
RENAUD DARDENNE – GUITAR
SAM GERSTMANS – DOUBLE BASS

COFFEE ON THE PORCH WITH DON VAPPIE

Coffee on the porch Mug by Award winning Créole Banjoist vocalist, Don Vappie
From the album The Blue Book of Storyville

THE FAPY LAFERTIN NEW QUARTET
2017 - FA8576

FAPY LAFERTIN - GUITARE, GUITARE PORTUGUAISE
ALEXANDRE TRIPODI - VIOLON
CÉDRIC RAYMOND - CONTREBASSE
RENAUD DARDENNE - GUITARE

Fapy Lafertin, musician, composer, legendary figure. A guitar institution studied by many and widely thought of as the rightful heir to Django’s crown. Here fronting his New Quartet featuring the cream of the young guard of “string jazz” in Belgium.
Alexandre Tripodi and Renaud Dardenne, guitarist and viola player from Les Violons de Bruxelles and Cédric Raymond, known also for his work with Tcha Limberger, Toots Thielemans etc. Material from Gypsy jazz, Choro & Fado

Un voyage musical riche en belles surprises
COULEURS JAZZ FR
Fapy Lafertin, l’artiste musicien, est un trésor caché
JAZZ HOT FR
Simply irresistible
THE GUARDIAN UK
Lafertin is a virtuoso
JAZZ RAG UK
Lilting music beautifully wrought, often delicate, never rugged
JAZZWISE UK