Pearl Django is a jazz group established in 1994 in Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

 by Neil Andersson, Dudley Hill

Dudley Hill

Dudley Hill is a village in the borough of City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.- History :Dudley Hill had its own railway station although it is closed now....

, and David "Pope" Firman. The group's stated focus is to incorporate the music of Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...

 and Stephane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....

with American swing music. 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.

Discography

Released	Title	Label	Number	Notes
1995	Le Jazz Hot	Modern Hot Records	MHR 001
1997	New Metropolitan Swing	Modern Hot Records	MHR 002
January 1999	Mystery Pacific	Modern Hot Records	MHR 003
May 1999	Souvenirs	Modern Hot Records	MHR 004
October 2000	Avalon	Modern Hot Records	MHR 005
May 2002	Under Paris Skies	Modern Hot Records	MHR 006
October 2003	Swing 48	Modern Hot Records	MHR 008
June 2005	Chasing Shadows	Modern Hot Records	MHR 009
June 2007	Modern Times	Modern Hot Records	MHR 011
June 2010	Hotel New Yorker	Modern Hot Records	MHR 014	Compilation from 1995-1999 releases
June 15, 2010	Système D	Modern Hot Records	MHR 015