My middle-aged son is an orthopaedic surgeon, after-hours jazz musician and lover of Gypsy swing in general (and Django Reinhardt in particular), and, a few months before I got the opportunity to ...

From the Gypsy camps outside Paris to the clubs of New York, it's still the ultimate outsider music. Gypsy jazz came to prominence in the 1930s with guitarist Django Reinhardt. But it isn't just the ...

This wonderful 4CD collection of Gypsy jazz—an Aladdin's Cave of rarities, curiosities and lesser known virtuosi of the genre—covers the first twenty or so years of the music's history. Disc one ...

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Born in 1910 in the Belgian province of Hainaut, and raised from age eight in the outskirts of Paris where his mother’s tribe settled, the Roma guitarist Django Reinhardt is considered by many to be ...

Although gypsy-jazz guitar pioneer Django Reinhardt died in 1953, there’s been a steady stream of players inspired by him over the past few decades. One such player is Robin Nolan, who’s been hailed ...

It’s some of the most joyous music ever created: upbeat, exuberant, surging with energy. Which helps explain why the work of gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt may be more popular now than at any ...

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 ...

Paul Mehling has devoted the past three decades of his life to the music of Django Reinhardt, and he doesn’t mince words when it comes to the Gypsy guitar legend’s most illustrious successor, Dorado ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gypsy jazz ...

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