Hot Club De Veille Analysis

Hot Club de Ville performed at Leonardo’s 706 Monday July 24th from 7 until 10. They play the music of Quintette du Hot Club de France Django Reinhardt known as gypsy jazz. Django Reinhardt was a jazz guitarist and composer and maybe one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century who started gypsy jazz also called gypsy swing or hot club jazz. Reinhardt named his band Quintette du Hot Club de France, resulting in Marty Liquori to name their Gainesville gypsy jazz group Hot Club de Ville to pay homage to Reinhardt. On Mondays there are typically four musicians: Marty Liquori and Eric Diamond on guitar, Dave Forbes on standing bass, and Geoff Perry on violin.

During this performance I observed that this music is very string-based since they only play string instruments. Through the songs the bass and guitar create the rhythm instead of drums. During most of

The rhythm made the music more loosened adherence to the beats by slightly delaying the notes played between the beats. The bass was keeping tempo with a low chords, while the violinist was tapping her violin as a drum to keep the tempo going. The guitar one had a solo starting in a higher register then switching to a lower register similar to bebop, but not in a fast manner while the bass and other guitar were reharmonizing. Following with a violin solo in a bebop style of a fast tempo, rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, and was a combination of harmonic structure from the melody. Next, was the solo of guitar two, which quickly changed chords, but the tempo was slower than the other solos. After the solos, they reunited again to harmonize, then the bass player emphasized the 2nd and 4th which made it sound like a different rhythm with the guitar. The violin the started a new ending rhythm different than the other instruments. They continued the different rhythms till the end and ended on a high