Quintet Of The Hot Club De France

Every Tuesday from 8pm to 11pm, Chez Georges welcomes the Alex Swing Events collective, which offers a varied and quality program, following a repertoire of swing / gypsy jazz, the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Balkan music, and more...

Chez Georges is a very friendly wine bar on rue des canettes, with a magnificent vaulted cellar in the basement, transformed on Tuesdays into an acoustic jazz cellar

A spirit, an aesthetic, a sound… Around Duved Dunayevsky and Daniel Garlitsky, this is what the new Quintette du Hot Club de France is trying to revive, as an extension of the creative legacy of its august founders Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

This new Quintette du Hot Club de France is not intended to be just a tribute or a cover band. The band offers a personal approach to a heritage that combines the demands and respect of classical music with a resolutely “Hot” temperament. A clever cocktail that made all the originality of the original aesthetic gesture of Reinhardt and Grappelli in 1934. By “Hot”, understand: ardent swing, commitment and exaltation. In other words: a certain propensity to move bodies and galvanize minds, while delivering remarkable precision of execution.

It is with this philosophy that this new Quintette du Hot Club de France will offer essential classics by Reinhardt and Grappelli as well as a selection of original compositions, standards from the 1910s to the 1940s never recorded by their elders, without forgetting some swing adaptations of works from the classical repertoire.

Listening to the new Quintette du Hot Club de France in concert, thanks to its expert knowledge of the repertoire of the 1920s/1930s, offers listeners a true artistic and historical experience.