Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known. Facing artistic obsolescence while jazz fans who once embraced him were hooked on the latest thing, Django assembled a new quintet of players ...

Exponents of "Le Jazz Hot" gathered for the second annual Django Reinhardt New York Festival, a tribute to the innovative Belgian-born Gypsy guitarist who died in 1953. The weeklong event marked the ...

The crowd may have been small, but the music at Fort Lauderdale’s Riverside Hotel on Thursday night was choice and all too rare. As part of the monthly concert series of the Gold Coast Jazz Society, a ...

Django Reinhardt, the gypsy jazz legend who became the toast of Paris in the mid-1930s, is such a vivid and irresistible figure that it’s no wonder he gets the lion’s share of the credit as jazz’s ...

Before the coronavirus outbreak, Wrembel visited the Fresh Air studio to talk about his musical influences and to play, with his trio, songs from his new album, Django L'Impressionniste. This is FRESH ...

Before the more famous Django Reinhardt made his big splash, Eddie Lang was jazz’ premier guitar virtuoso. A new set from Mosaic Records, The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang ...

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 ...

Gigs.Live To Premiere Video Of Wrembel’s Solo Performance Of All 17 Pieces On Thursday, April 22nd At 8:00 P.M. EDT Heralded composer, teacher and guitarist, Stephane Wrembel, will release Django ...

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Few could have predicted that the first European to come up with a unique jazz style would be a peripatetic, three-fingered, Belgian gypsy guitarist named Django Reinhardt. Fewer could have ...