When Django Reinhardt switched from acoustic to electric guitar, his fans, feeling betrayed, called him "Judas." However, he later used this new instrument to record Blonde On Blonde, often considered ...

Guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. The Romani-French composer gave birth to a new form of music in the 1930s known as gypsy jazz ...

Known as the Hot Club Holo Acoustic All Stars Gypsy Jazz Ensemble, the trio will perform music by the legendary Django Reinhardt, as well as Hot Club Swing standards, Bolero, Bossa and original music ...

Saxophonist James Carter and his band were touring in support of Chasin’ the Gypsy, Carter’s 2000 tribute to gypsy-jazz guitar great Django Reinhardt, when they started playing “Nuages” during a ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As with the previous "experiments," The Django Experiment V was recorded ...

When a modern ensemble pays tribute to Django Reinhardt, it’s usually the same setup: a Django-obsessed guitarist leads a gypsy jazz group through material that Reinhardt made famous with the ...

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 ...

French jazz guitarist and composer Jean “Django” Reinhardt’s life is the stuff of legend. Two of his fingers became paralyzed as the result of a fire early in his career, but he persevered and went on ...

The Gypsy jazz guitarist, who would have turned 100 this weekend, is the toast of tribute albums and festivals. John Jorgenson on Django Reinhardt: “It was so underground. Nobody knew anything about ...

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, ...

Did Belgian-born Gypsy musician Django Reinhardt need to be the most celebrated guitarist of his day to survive a Nazi regime hellbent on eradicating his kind? It’s an intriguing premise, but one only ...