At the age of 16 while still in high school, Max O’Rourke attended Django Camp in Northampton to learn more about jazz manouche, also referred to as hot club-style jazz. Now years later, O’Rourke is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Practitioners of what’s known as jazz manouche, gypsy jazz, or hot jazz are a peculiar breed: the style is pretty much an ongoing homage to prodigious Belgian-born French guitarist Django Reinhardt, ...

Djoin a djam on a street corner or catch a performance in honor of Belgian jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt during the five-day festival. A previous year’s DjangoFest Northwest ends in an all-instruments ...

It is a little known fact that Django Reinhardt was not only an incredible guitarist, he was also extremely good at stealing chickens. For the manouche clan of gypsies to which he belonged, this was a ...

Django Reinhardt is a pioneering jazz guitarist whose music is still revered by musicians and fans. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / William P. Gottlieb San Antonio music school The Guitar Dojo is hosting ...

Jazz manouche, or "traveler jazz, melds elements of traditional Roma (gypsy) music with early swing; this impassioned, rousing music relies mostly on the percussive playing of stringed instruments ...

Born one hundred years ago, manouche jazz legend Django Reinhardt is often considered the best jazz guitarist of all time. France is honoring the musician with concerts, special edition CDs and TV ...

Reinhardt, whose virtuosic guitar playing defied losing the use of two fingers in a fire, died prematurely, at 43, in 1953, while Grappelli lived to almost 90. Through recordings and direct lineage, ...