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Pearl Django

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Pearl Django
Pearl Django at Jazz Alley in 2025. From left to right: David Lange, Michael Gray, Tim Lerch, Jim Char and Rick Leppanen
Pearl Django at Jazz Alley in 2025. From left to right: David Lange, Michael Gray, Tim Lerch, Jim Char and Rick Leppanen
Background information
OriginTacoma, Washington, U.S.
Genres
Years active1994 (1994)–present
LabelModern Hot Records
Members
  • Tim Lerch
  • Michael Gray
  • Rick Leppanen
  • David Lange
  • Jim Char
Past members
  • Neil Andersson
  • Troy Chapman
  • Ron Peters
  • Greg Ruby
  • Pete Krebs
  • Dudley Hill
  • Shelley D. Park
  • David Firman
  • Ryan Hoffman
Websitepearldjango.com

Pearl Django is an American jazz group established in 1994 in Tacoma, Washington by guitarists Neil Andersson and Dudley Hill[1] and bassist David "Pope" Firman. The group melds the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli with American Swing. Initially a trio, they have changed and added members over the years and are now a quintet. Based in Seattle, they have played around the United States, as well as in France and Iceland.

The band has performed at the prestigious Festival Django Reinhardt in Samois-sur-Seine and at Juan de Fuca Festival.[2] They have played with Martin Taylor,[3] Bucky Pizzarelli,[4] and Gail Pettis, a two-time recipient of the Earshot Jazz 'Jazz Vocalist Of The Year' award.[5] The British virtuoso Taylor turns up on three tracks of their 2011 album Eleven. On their twelfth album, Time Flies, released in 2015, all tracks are their own compositions except for one classic bossa nova.[6]

Discography

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Released Title Label Notes
1995Le Jazz HotModern Hot Records
1997New Metropolitan SwingModern Hot Records
1999Mystery PacificModern Hot Records
1999SouvenirsModern Hot Records
2000AvalonModern Hot Records
2002Under Paris SkiesModern Hot Records
2003Swing 48Modern Hot Records
2005Chasing ShadowsModern Hot Records
2007Modern TimesModern Hot Records
2010Hotel New YorkerModern Hot RecordsCompilation from 1995 to 1999 releases
2010Système DModern Hot Records
2012ElevenModern Hot Records
2015Time FliesModern Hot Records
2017With Friends Like TheseModern Hot RecordsAll original compositions
2019Pearl Django LiveModern Hot Records
2020SimplicityModern Hot RecordsAll original compositions
2026TableauModern Hot RecordsAll original compositions

References

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  1. ↑ Seattle Times: Dudley Hill, who started popular band Pearl Django, dies at 56 01/20/2005
  2. ↑ "JFF 2014 Festival Line Up: Pearl Django". Juan de Fuca Foundation of the Arts. January 31, 2014. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Martin Taylor With Pearl Django: Gypsy Jazz". National Public Radio. January 13, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ David Lange (January 5, 2014). "Bucky Pizzarelli and Pearl Django playing Avalon". Vimeo. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Pearl Django profile at KPLU". KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest. Archived from the original on October 20, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Paul de Barros, jazz critic (April 24, 2015). "Pearl Django, 'Time Flies' (Modern Hot)". Seattle Times. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
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