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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 ...

KNKX’s Dick Stein on the jazz band: “You just can’t keep your feet still when you hear those guys play.” Anyone who enjoys swing-style jazz has probably heard the works of Pearl Django. The group, ...

Decades after Django Reinhardt pioneered his distinct style of guitar-propelled swing, it's being adapted by bands like these. Hear what Frank... Django's Legacy: 21st-Century Gypsy Jazz Django's ...

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 ...

Like the grapes transplanted from the French countryside to California's Wine Country, the Gypsy swing of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli has thrived in the Bay Area's ...

Reinhardt biographer Michael Dregni had this to say in his book Gypsy Jazz: In search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing: When Django was at his zenith in the 1930s and 1940s, no one ...

It’s not easy following in the footsteps of a legend. But Lulo Reinhardt has carved out a melodious path of his own, as an internationally acclaimed guitarist. He is the great-nephew of gypsy jazz ...

Django Reinhardt was a French Gypsy who popularized a unique style of jazz that has become known as “gypsy swing.” Born in poverty in a gypsy wagon in Belgium in 1910, he is one of the most famous ...

NORTHAMPTON – Andrew Lawrence remembers when Django in June was nothing more than a one-day workshop held under a tree. But by the time this year’s edition of the Gypsy jazz festival and workshop ...

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 ...