Midnight, Pigalle. The red-light district of Paris glows in a nocturnal carnival of neon and incandescent color.... Welcome to Michael Dregin's engaging Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and ...

Paul Mehling has devoted the past three decades of his life to the music of Django Reinhardt, and he doesn’t mince words when it comes to the Gypsy guitar legend’s most illustrious successor, Dorado ...

Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...

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 ...

Django understood harmony and voice leading in a manner that coincided with his contemporaries in bebop, and was a very skilled, patient jazz improviser who knew how to craft a solo that told a story.

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 ...

NORTHAMPTON – Andrew Lawrence remembers when Django in June was nothing more than a one-day workshop held under a tree. But by the time this year’s edition of the Gypsy jazz festival and workshop ...

From the Gypsy camps outside Paris to the clubs of New York, it's still the ultimate outsider music. Gypsy jazz came to prominence in the 1930s with guitarist Django Reinhardt. But it isn't just the ...

In the dim lit corners of bistros and bars around the Springs, there echoes the arpeggios of a ghostly guitar legend. And gypsy jazz band Mango fan Django has sought to keep his sound alive. “When it ...

Late in Django, a proudly fictionalized improvisation upon the theme of Django Reinhardt–ness, the world’s most famous gypsy-jazz guitar virtuoso gets told by a Nazi what he and his combo can and ...

Martin Taylor is widely considered one of the best solo jazz guitarists working today. While still in his early 20s, he was introduced to the world's jazz audience as the guitarist with Stephane ...

There are close to 5 billion videos watched every day on YouTube. A YouTube video can go viral and propel an unknown from total obscurity to world fame in a matter of days. In 2012, the music video ...