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<font size="+1"><font face="Arial">Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club
played it uptempo in a 1936 recording. I have it on the
Djangologie USA album and just checked the speed at about 264
bpm.<br>
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Mike "Banjoman' Woitowicz<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/2016 9:48 AM, Ken Gates wrote:<br>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Composed in 1918 ---
recorded by many since, both as</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">vocals and instrumental
jazz groups. Has an nice</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">introductory verse --
works well (I think) as medium</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">tempo swing. Somewhere
along the way it has become</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">a "requirement" to play
very fast choruses (cut time,</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">double time, or just
plain fast) to follow the medium</div>
<div class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">tempo introduction of
the melody. Sometimes the</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">extremely fast tempo
is beyond the skill level of</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">the musicians. Be that
as it may. Wondering who</div>
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style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">first introduced
the now traditional tempo speed up.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"
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