Cuckoo Discography

To order Out of the Shell or Happy Birthday, Django:

  • Send us an email

  • Call Rob Diggins at (707) 845-1788 or Joli von Einem at (707) 834-2479

  • Or send $15.00 per CD, plus your name and shipping address, to: 50 Fox Farm Rd. Trinidad, CA 95570 USA.

Please make check or money order payable to Rob Diggins. (Sorry, we can't accept credit cards!) We will ship within seven days upon receipt of your order. Discounts available on orders of 5 CD’s or more!

  

Happy Birthday, Django!
©2004, Earful Records 1006

Rob Diggins and Joli Einem, violins
Tami Pallingston, bass
Dave Wilson and Jim Adams, guitars

Now Is the Time
Tears
Avalon
Souvenirs
Night and Day
Honeysuckle Rose
Django's Castle
Nuages
Belleville
Lady Be Good
Minor Swing
Two Zingarese/Ballets Hongrois

  


The Westhaven Center for the Arts is located in the tiny town of Westhaven, just north of Arcata, close to the sea. The Center promotes a wide variety of music and spoken work performances, provides space for resident artists, boasts a small gallery of fine northcoast art pieces, and offers seasonal arts programming for north coast children.

This, our second CD, is taken from our celebration/concert on 24 January 2004 at the Westhaven Center for the Arts, in honor of Django Reinhardt’s birthday (23 Jan 1910). This was a sold-out, standing room only, two-set show with a break to celebrate and sing Happy Birthday to Django. What a hoot!

Again, Dave remastered the recording made with Tami’s Mp3 recorder and while some of the tunes are repeats from our first CD, because it's a live recording, they are significantly different from how we played them on that CD and reflect how the band has grown between July '03 and January '04. This was our 'first real show where we were the only featured act, and the enthusiastic response really gave us a lot of excellent inspiration, as you will hear!

- Rob Diggins

  

Out of the Shell
©2004, Earful Records 1005

Rob Diggins and Joli Einem, violins
Tami Pallingston, bass
Dave Wilson and Jim Adams, guitars

Belleville
Swing from Paris
Tears
Honeysuckle Rose
Troubland Bolero
Minor Swing
Souvenirs
Now's The Time
Ain't Misbehavin'
It Don't Mean A Thing

  


The Annual "I Block Party" is a benefit for the Arcata, CA / Camoapa, Nicaragua Sister City Project. Since 1986, many Arcatans have visited Camoapa to lend a helping hand, and to enjoy the exchange of music, art, ideas and friendship!

Out of the Shell is a remaster of a direct, from the board recording of our outdoor set at the August 2003 'I Block' benefit celebration for Arcata's sister city, Camoapa. It was an absolutely beautiful day that day, temperatures in the high-70's, a mild balmy breeze and lots of people enjoying themselves, hanging out with barbeque, etc. As usual, we were enjoying the freedom that live jazz performance requires - the willingness to take risks and follow through with your musical hunches. Above all else, have a blast and land on your feet no matter what!

This is our first CD and in deciding to produce and release it we realized that if we can, we will always try to follow the precedent of only releasing our live performances. That way we can stay true to the philosophy that jazz never takes the same route twice and the spontaneous energy generated by the interaction between the band and the audience is captured there and then!

- Rob Diggins