When La Pompe Jazz’s singer and guitarist David Lawrence first started learning how to play gypsy jazz, he had to break some old picking habits. Lawrence, who had spent many years playing the blues, ...

Belgian gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was 18 and poised for international stardom in 1928 when a fire ripped through his caravan on the outskirts of Paris. His left hand was badly burned in ...

Imagine being an American playing French-Gypsy jazz to 3,000 Django Reinhardt enthusiasts — in France. “It was a little nerve-racking,” said Michael Gray, a violinist with the jazz band Pearl Django. ...

Author Michael Dregni has posted a number of videos online of modern Gypsy musicians adapting Django Reinhardt's music: From the Gypsy camps outside Paris to the clubs of New York, it's still the ...

More than five decades after his death, guitarist Django Reinhardt’s influence is more pervasive than ever. The proof isn’t just in the proliferation of Hot Club-style bands, modeled after the quintet ...