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5.0 out of 5 stars
Vintage Guitar magazine review, July 16, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Samois Sur Seine (Audio CD)
A new release by jazz manouche guitarist Patrick "Romane" Leguidecoq is always a reason to celebrate but this new CD is truly phenomenal. Romane has put out four past discs of Gypsy jazz as well as a video concert and method book, all available in the U.S. This new CD, however, is his most mature and accomplished to date. The album opens with "Legende," a Romane original as eccentric as Django Reinhardt's great "Rhythm Futur" in its funky rhythms and exotic melody. The song is a duet between Romane and legendary Gypsy guitarist Angelo Debarre, and the results are fireworks. (For more of Debarre, check out his Gypsy Guitars album on Norway's Hot Club Records.) Other standout numbers include the moody duet with Django's second son, Babik, on "Une Histoire Simple" and the rollicking, straight-ahead "Swing 98." As on several of his past CDs, Romane plays a new version of his own "Dans Le Regard De Laura," provid! ! ing an unfolding measure of his own musical development. But it's not only the music that stands out here: The sound quality on this CD is drop-dead amazing. The sound is warm, live, and almost three-dimensional. On some cuts, it is so crystal clear that you can distinguish between four acoustic guitar players. Hot stuff!
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