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 ...

TWIN FALLS • In 1928, Belgian-born gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt lost the use of two fingers in a caravan fire. Reinhardt overcame his handicap to become one of the world’s most influential jazz ...

Every year for the last decade and a half, select groups of hot swing musicians have come from Europe to tour the U.S. The exact lineups change, but they all feature masters of the "gypsy jazz" — or ...

Call it Django or Gypsy jazz, Hot Club, swing or Manouche (another name for gypsy), it's a style that hits you immediately—blazing, hard-picked runs played on a hyper-resonant, flat-top guitar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Django Reinhardt was a true guitarist’s guitarist. As George Benson states, “Django stretched the guitar imagination to its limit. He was the fastest, the most creative, he had great rhythm, and he ...

NEW YORK - 1st JANUARY: Photo of Django REINHARDT (1910-1953) playing his guitar backstage in New York in 1946. (Photo by William Gottlieb/Redferns) Its concerts—at Rose Theater in New York on ...