Django Reinhardt News

Coca-Cola invites you to enjoy The Carney & Guinn Trio live at Factory Merchants Branson on Sat, July 25 at noon until 2pm in the upper courtyeard.

The Knoxville Museum of Art's Alive After Five music series presents the Johnson Swingtet on Friday, July 17, from 5:30 - 8:00 pm.

The Lost Fingers, who've been stirring the music scene in the great White North for the last couple of years by selling heaps of records and snagging Juno Awards , are preparing a US invasion with the release of "Lost In the '80s." The record is due here Sept.

Ross Burns loves Django Reinhardt, and not just because, like the gypsy guitar icon, he likes to play the guitar-based jazz of the 1930s and 1940s.

Things have been all backwards for Halifax's gypsy-jazz ensemble Gypsophilia right from the start.

My favorite new jangly pop band out of Seattle, The Raggedy Anns has been getting some airplay on KEXP and is putting the finishing touches on their new dancy album due out July 9. The boys draw from old time gypsy jazz influences like Django Reinhardt but carry themselves with a sweeping feeling reminiscent of The Kinks.

Southern Tier Celebrates! will present Enerjee Jazz as a part of the Brown Bag Lunchtime Series from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at the Farmers' Market on Collier Street in downtown Binghamton.

"People ask us what kind of music we play," Doc Severinsen said Friday, early in a benefit concert for the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music with El Ritmo de la Vida.

What's the Deal : Okay, so they technically aren't around anymore, but you can go see a different incarnation of the group playing the same songs from the self-titled album released in 2006 and more at The Gallery above The Continental Club every Thursday night for free.

It's not enough that Texas invented smoked brisket, Longhorn hood ornaments, the Alamo and dead armadillos at every intersection.

Les Paul has had such a staggeringly huge influence over the way American popular music sounds today that many tend to overlook his significant impact upon the jazz world.

Bishop is the seasoned, dark, fingerboard maestro from cult world/jazz/grind/folk whatchamacallits Sun City Girls.

The fest features not only a djangly series of gypsy jazz concerts, but also finger-pickin'-good workshops and impromptu djam sessions with accomplished musicians who are also dedicated fans of the innovative spirit and technically inspiring flatpick-style of a true Gypsy master.

Although he is a classically trained musician, when Stephane Wrembel discovered gypsy jazz he had to a oeunlearna everything he had learned in school.

For the Django fanatics, there's not a finer gypsy jazz band than One Leg Up. Hailing from Asheville, N.C., they have been performing together since 2003.

Having developed solo guitar into a deeply personal art, Martin Taylor combines good taste with extraordinary technique as he mingles rich chords and inventive melodies.

Hotqua String Band members will share their newest album release with the public on Saturday.

Gypsy jazz band Pearl Django pulls from the Parisian hot club jazz and swing styles of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli for its original music.

Inclement weather forced the Florin Niculescu performance in the Jazz & More series to be moved from the College of Charleston Cistern to the Charleston Music Hall Sunday, but it turned out just fine for the approximately 700 folks who attended.

Although the name Django Reinhardt might not be immediately familiar to American audiences, many music lovers can probably call to mind the unique sound that Reinhardt and his band made famous: Imagine what you might have heard while strolling the streets of Paris in the 1930s and you should come pretty close.