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Blues for Ike ( Django Reinhardt / compositeur )

Christophe Lartilleux / Lead Guit
Johan Renard / Violin
Déborah Lartilleux / Bass
Philippe Cuillerier / Rythm Guit
Geyser - Bellerive sur Allier 2015 (France)


Of "Manouche" origin, Christophe Lartilleux-Hart, was brought up in a travelling circus (Hart-Goujon), run by gipsy performers and musicians. he was taught to play by his father, Yvon, himself guitarist (who played many years with the accordionist Maurice Vittenet, Jo Privat). He had many musicals influences. From jazz fusion to bop, including flamenco, classic and hard rock, he played with some musicians as different as Yoshko Seffer, Alain Caron, Florin Niculescu, Laurent Korcia...But his first love was always the gipsy guitar, and Latcho Drom (meaning "have a good journey" in manouche language) is the realisation of his dream to create the Hot Club de France sounds of Grappelli and Reinhardt's famous quintet.

Latcho drom was formed in the French town of Toulouse in 1993 by the gipsy guitarist Christophe LARTILLEUX, in order to revive the atmosphere of the famous Django REINHARDT Hot Club de France Quintet with Stéphane Grappelli or Gus Viseur...Christophe, surrounded himself with young talended jazz musicians, impassioned by Django' music, with his acoustic band, he revives the sound and the swing of those times, (especially by using the famous Selmer guitars), while developing his own personality and originality. Immediately the group was extremely successful, and has never stopped performing all over the world.