MIDDLETOWN -- The band Ameranouche promises to offer hot swing and Gypsy jazz this weekend at The Buttonwood Tree, 605 Main St. The award-winning trio features the melodic virtuosity of guitarist ...
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 ...
Gypsy Swing is a thoroughly delightful album that features the violin and guitar virtuosity of Ismael Reinhardt, a relative of the legendary Django Reinhardt. Building on the legacy of Django and ...
Harmonious Wail — standard-bearers for Americana-infused gypsy jazz/swing music in Madison and beyond for 30 years — had a May 8 gig at Stoughton Opera House postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
John Jorgenson, guitarist of the country hit-making Desert Rose Band, can play anything he’d like. And what he really likes happens to be the hot form of 1930s Parisian swing, Gypsy jazz. will ...
The award winning Ameranouche (pronounced uh-Mare-uh-noosh) plays a passionate style of music they call “Gypsy Flamenco Swing.” They are veterans of the Newport Jazz Festival, Djangofest Northwest, ...
Curiosity got the best of this reporter a week ago when I heard, “Anouman,” the group that was performing on the Green, was going to play Gypsy Jazz. Well known jazz genres that come to mind include ...
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, ...
PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts continues its Bandwagon Summer Series with a twin bill featuring the Rhythm Future Quartet and the DiTrani Brothers on Saturday, Aug. 23, at 6 p.m. (gates at 5 p.m.) at Putney ...
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, ...
Guitarist John Jorgenson needs only two fingers to do a convincing impersona-tion of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Revered by aficionados of both jazz and guitar, the Belgian-born Reinhardt ...
A former manufacturing town, Bridgeport’s ubiquitous city parks and sleepy college campus could be uprooted to any town USA and no one would be the wiser. However, just below the surface of this ...