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Tchavolo Schmitt - The Sheik of Araby - 2010
Tchavolo Schmitt (born 1954 in Paris) is a Romani jazz guitarist. Schmitt performed as a member of various ensembles in the 1970s. Then he settled in Strasbourg and left the professional circuit for a time, releasing solo albums in 2000. He played Miraldo in the Tony Gatlif film Swing .
" The Sheik of Araby " is a song that was written in 1921 by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, with music by Ted Snyder . It was composed in response to the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino feature film The Sheik .
"The Sheik of Araby " was a Tin Pan Alley hit and was also adopted by early jazz bands, especially in New Orleans , making it a jazz standard. It was a well-recognized part of popular culture. A verse also appears in the novel The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald . In 1926, Fleischer Studios released a cartoon with this song, recorded in Phonofilm , as part of their Song Car-Tunes series, and a live action short with this title was filmed in Phonofilm in the UK, directed by Miles Mander .
This performance of “The Sheik of Araby,” by Tchavolo Schmitt, is from the album Live in Paris , released by Le Chant du monde, 2010. - more at Wikipedia
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Tchavolo Schmitt - The Sheik of Araby - 2010
Tchavolo Schmitt (born 1954 in Paris) is a Romani jazz guitarist. Schmitt performed as a member of various ensembles in the 1970s. Then he settled in Strasbourg and left the professional circuit for a time, releasing solo albums in 2000. He played Miraldo in the Tony Gatlif film Swing .
" The Sheik of Araby " is a song that was written in 1921 by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, with music by Ted Snyder . It was composed in response to the popularity of the Rudolph Valentino feature film The Sheik .
"The Sheik of Araby " was a Tin Pan Alley hit and was also adopted by early jazz bands, especially in New Orleans , making it a jazz standard. It was a well-recognized part of popular culture. A verse also appears in the novel The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald . In 1926, Fleischer Studios released a cartoon with this song, recorded in Phonofilm , as part of their Song Car-Tunes series, and a live action short with this title was filmed in Phonofilm in the UK, directed by Miles Mander .
This performance of “The Sheik of Araby,” by Tchavolo Schmitt, is from the album Live in Paris , released by Le Chant du monde, 2010. - more at Wikipedia
#music #jazz #tangled
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