After You've Gone - Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grapelli, 1949

A late version, in postwar Rome. Earlier versions with Quintette du Hot Club here (includes vocal) and here.

The start of World War II broke up the popular Quintette du Hot Club de France, then touring England, with Stephane Grappelli remaining in London for the duration of the conflict, while Django Reinhardt returned to France. Beginning in 1946, the two reunited periodically up until their last recordings in Italy in 1949.

As one hears on this track from those final sessions, their playing by then had taken on a new level of assuredness and virtuosity, no doubt indirectly influenced by the innovations of bebop.