It appears there’s been a conscious effort to de-glamorise this year’s Berlin film festival, rid of the star wattage that recent opening-night films have brought (The Grand Budapest Hotel and last ...

Some bodies of work are meant to be enjoyed as part of a larger package. As such, the Hot Club of Hulaville’s "Special First Edition" version of the group’s debut album, "Django Would Go," is a ...

Django Reinhardt is one of the most influential guitarists in jazz, but the “Gypsy jazz” he invented with violinist Stephane Grappelli in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France can seem as dated, and ...

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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Grande Absente and Air France present the ...

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 ...

A new double cd, The Essential Django Reinhardt, has just been released by Sony Legacy. On the cd cover is a famous photograph of the great gypsy musician, cigarette dangling from his mouth, framed by ...

With all its string instruments, Gypsy jazz music is not your conventional, everyday musical genre. But the band Rhythm Future Quartet is big on that style. “Gypsy jazz was pioneered by Django ...

CD1: Oh, Lady Be Good; Dinah; Confessin'; I Saw Stars; Tiger Rag; The Continental; Blue Drag; Sweet Sue; The Sunshine of Your Smile; Swanee River; Charleston; Chicago; You're Driving Me Crazy; In A ...

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 ...

KITTERY - Violinist and Django By the Sea founder Jason Anick will come together with all-star musicians to celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt for a series of six performances throughout 2022, ...

Hank Marvin is best known as the lead guitarist of the British pop band The Shadows, whose influence through the 1960s inspired cutting-edge material from such rock guitarists as Brian May, Jimmy Page ...