The Hot Club of Hulaville has recorded its first studio album entitled Django Would Go. This album features their most popular and well-seasoned selections from two years of performing in Hawaii's most prestigious venues to sell-out audiences, along with original content. On this album The Hot Club of Hulaville also hosts two renowned guest artists Paul Mehling and Gonzalo Bergara, they appeared in a very limited engagement in Honolulu during their all-too-short stay.

Hot Club music has direct origins from the gypsy virtuosos who played the Parisian dance halls, bistros, and cafés of the 30's and 40's. These musicians took American Dixieland Jazz and Swing, blended it with European Tangos and the dance hall Musettes of the day, creating a formidable musical concoction that became the World Music of its time. Just about every top-flight band in America rewrote and rearranged large sections of their repertoire to accommodate this hot new style. This Hot Club Music went on to greatly influence American Jazz, Pop, Swing, and even crossed over to Hawaiian Jump, and American Country Western... Even Rock and Roll traces roots back to these rhythmic and melodic giants.

Hot Club music's major exponent, gypsy guitarist Django ReinhardtReinhardt, became one of the greatest and most influential musicians of his time. From humble origins and catastrophically challenging events, his influence is felt even to this day with countless festivals, bands, compositions and recordings in his honor. It seems like every jazz guitarist, of all stripes, spends a lot of time on him... gets schooled. Sometimes, their whole career is spent in a conscious or unconscious homage to him. Coincidentally, 2010 is Django's Centennial and is being even more seriously celebrated the world over

The Hot Club of Hulaville band - in keeping with the best traditions of gypsy djams and Hawaiian kanikapila -  is bringing in Paul Mehling from San Francisco and Gonzalo Bergara from Argentina by way of Los Angeles.  They are exceptional stars in the gypsy pantheon and not to be missed during their short stay here in Honolulu






































YouTube for Mehling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzXkzDm7bkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV2E-O_VJZI
(He's on the black guitar)
http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Hot+Club+of+San+Francisco/track/Tchavolo+Swing

YouTube for Bergara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXFO3ctDbFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgM-lFLDWY0


Our Regular Friday night performance is at:


chepastacafe.com

1001 Bishop Street

honolulu, HI 96813

(808) 524-0004






 

Paul Mehling


Paul Mehling as the legendary old pro, is credited with introducing and popularizing the whole Gypsy Jazz, manouche, or Hot Club movement in the USA. His band, the Hot Club of San Francisco, is considered pre-eminent the world over. His books and videos on the style are acknowledged textbooks on the subject....http://hcsf.com


Gonzalo Bergara


Young Gonzalo Bergara is a phenomenal talent from Argentina who has paid tremendous dues playing for the likes of John Jorgenson and the European Gypsy greats. He brings great composition, phenomenal technique and musicality to the project. His band, the Gonzalo Bergara Quartet, is becoming one of the most sought after bands in the country. He has established a following in both the gypsy jazz and blues crowds. He also composes and plays the bandoneón - the South American accordion - so popular in tangos...

http://www.gonzalobergara.com/

In 1946, the fabled Gypsy Guitar virtuoso, Django Reinhardt, finally traveled to the New World.  In New York, he became the toast of the town and played at Carnegie Hall with the likes of Duke Ellington. Together they played to sold-out

houses and concert halls around the country.


Alas, his visa was only valid for sixty days

cutting his travels short. . . But not his influence.


Guitarists from around the world claim him. From South American Tangos, Amercian Country

Western, Jazz, Rock & Roll, and Hawaiian Jump Swing. He must have passed through.


This is an account of of a side trip he could have taken. A trip to Latin America, Hollywood, and Polynesia.


Sharing cultures. Sharing music.