Django Reinhardt News

"Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have." - Django Reinhardt Wednesday night, July 16, ...

Ireland's David Munnelly Band will bring its exuberant mix of Irish traditional and swing music to Skye Theatre and to Lakeside Theater in Rangeley.

DjangoFest comes to Mt Crested Butte, CO for a weekend festival that celebrates the music and spirit of the great French/Belgian Gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt.

So, it is that we have this footage that has spilled forth from Activision. Cast your eyes downward to behold the game in action at a speed that makes Mark SPOnG seethe with fake guitar envy.

My brother is performing a juggling routine at a convention in a couple of months.

Django Reinhardt is often overlooked as one of the seminal figures in jazz. Jazz, a uniquely American art, became international in the hands of Reinhardt and his partner in crime, French violinist Stephane ...

'Night Town,' the Hot Club of Detroit's second CD for Mack Avenue, offers compelling evidence that the quintet continues to refine its delicate balance between the nicotine-stained nostalgia of Django ...

The Hot Club of Detroit has always walked a delicate tightrope, honoring its commitment to the nostalgia of Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz with the recognition that jazz and American culture didn't stop ...

Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan: The spirit of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt resonates in the work of Alfonso ...

The Iranian band Pajhan is scheduled to perform French gypsy jazz at the Niavaran Cultural Center on July 10 and 11.

Aly Bain: fiddle Cathal McConnell: flute, whistle Dave Richardson: concertina, cittern, mandolin Tich Richardson: guitar A live album released as a tribute to the late Tich Richardson in 1986.

See Mark O'Connor in action as player and composer at www.markoconnor.com . Click on Video.

The Hot Club of Detroit performs at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 26, at the Village Festival Plaza in the City of Grosse Pointe.

Double-bass player and composer Norman Guibeault and his ensemble, Project Riel, is one of the groups performing at this year's incarnation of Montreal's OFF Jazz Festival.

Day Three is done at the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Time was up, the space all used up in the print edition of the Democrat and Chronicle, yet the music was still going.

In Woody Allen's film Sweet and Lowdown , Sean Penn plays guitarist Emmet Ray, who said he cried every time he listened to the great gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.

Fort Worth welcomed the South Austin Jug Band to Concerts in the Garden on a windy Sunday evening that felt at times more like being in West Texas.

The accordion has certainly taken a wondrous musical journey-from ethnic instrument to the definition of cheesy and then back to the creative realm of world music.

It's a gypsy jazz doubleheader at The Grand Auditorium on Thursday, June 19, beginning at 7:30 p.m. when The Robin Nolan Trio and Ameranouche take the stage.

Cover Story Gettin' Jacked by Elizabeth Ulrich When he bought two souvenir shops from a local a few years back, Randy Piper acquired the beginnings of a stellar collection of Jack Daniel's bottles.