Inviting Swift into the fold was one of many savvy moves by Django Festival Allstars producer Pat Philips and her late ...
Next month, Django Reinhardt lovers will want to gypsy swing their way over to Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz in West Los Angeles to celebrate the legendary Belgian-born French guitarist. Artists Yorgui ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a nod to their musical idol, the members of the jazz manouche band Minor Swing managed to turn a hobby into a display of a vintage genre that is as passionate as the European ...
From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django ...
Collective: Django Reinhardt, Joseph Reinhardt, Pierre Ferret, Marcel Bianchi, Louis Gaste, Eugene Vees, Jack Llewelyn, Allan Hodgkiss, Challin Ferret, Jean Ferret ...
Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.
Manouche Jazz, commonly known as "Gypsy Jazz," is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by the Quintette du Hot Club de ...
Few could have predicted that the first European to come up with a unique jazz style would be a peripatetic, three-fingered, Belgian gypsy guitarist named Django Reinhardt. Fewer could have ...
Gypsy jazz -- the fiery and elegant acoustic-string sound made famous in the 1930s and '40s by French Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt -- is all the rage in the early 21st century. This year, scores ...
VancouverÕs Van Django is the only act in the roster that isnÕt from Victoria. ÒThere is a movement afoot and Victoria is a real hotspot for it,Ó said organizer Oliver Swain. That a revered gypsy-jazz ...
Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...