At any given time, there are a few acts on the jazz scene who lovingly imitate the legendary Quintette du Hot Club de France. That band's innovations in the 1930s, driven by guitarist Django Reinhardt ...

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, ...

When Django Reinhardt infused American jazz with his Gypsy soul, the result was a “swing with strings” that has remained a landmark in jazz/world fusion. With the addition of two rhythm guitars, a ...

Musical fashions have come and gone since Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli codified “gypsy jazz” in their Quintet of the Hot Club of France, in the 1930s. Yet the lure of this idiom – with its ...

Violinist Aaron Weinstein and guitarist Matt Munisteri will honor the music of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhart this weekend at The Jazz Corner. Weinstein has performed as a soloist at Carnegie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Django Reinhardt, playing live circa 1970. Django Reinhardt was a true guitarist’s guitarist. As George Benson states, “Django ...

Belgian-born guitarist Django Reinhardt was raised as a traveling gypsy, a vagabond who never called one place home before settling in Paris near the age of 20. He would bring the gypsy folk music of ...

Vail Jazz will celebrate the musical legacy of Django at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, at the Sonnenalp Hotel and at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, in the Jazz Tent at Vail Square in ...