Django Reinhardt's "Minor Swing" on Violin and Accordion (no guitar!)

Gyspy Jazz standard performed by Edward Jay (Accordion) and Fiona Barrow (Violin) - The Bristol Players.
http://www.EdwardJay.co.uk

Thanks to Grittleton House School for the use of their fabulous space.

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[twirlyboggs]

ooooooh yeah!

[TheThinkingGremlin]

Star Wars... haha.

[2002leesons]

So soulful! Excellent rendition! :D

[barbakayak]

pas d'lézard...superbe interprétation: discrète, swing irrréprochable; merci à vous deux!

nanaroi

[thechurchac]

brilliant. Thanks

[cartoonage]

superb !!

[viajerosdelabismo]

BRAVOO !!!

[grfellows]

@grfellows continued: e.g If you're playing over a G chord, play an E minor arpeggio and embellish it rhythmically and by adding other notes in to make your solo line (E minor arpeggio contains E G B which are the 6th, root and 3rd of G respectively) - so if you take that arpeggio and play it in triplets in a decending pattern starting on b for example. Try transcribing Django Reinhardt's guitar solo on DInah which is full of these sorts of tricks.

[grfellows]

@trumpetfish1 - Generally speaking (i'm a guitarist so don't know about accordion specifically) try creating lines with a lot of arpeggios in to link phrases, there's a fair bit of chromaticism. To get more of a gypsy feel, use 6/9 chords instead of major or major seventh chords, and minor 6th instead of minor 7th chords. You can get a good 6th chord feel quite nicely in a solo line by playing around with the arpeggio from the relative minor -

[trumpetfish1]

hey i was wondering if you could give me any advise in improvising on accordion in this style... thnx!