Django Reinhardt News

Back when San Francisco guitarist Brian Gore founded International Guitar Night in 1995, he never dreamed it would become so successful, or so truly international.

IF GYPSY Jazz of the Reinhardt/Grapelli kind is your scene, then you should snap up a ticket for Rythme Futur at the Under Ground Theatre on November 20 .

Luc Fortin and Richard LA©veillA©, along with accordionist Marin Nasturica and double bass player Michel Donato, will be performing together for the very first time at Salle Pauline-Julien on Saturday, November 14th at 8:00 pm.

Fifth Street Farms in Berkeley is hosting an evening Saturday, November 7th, for the Gonzalo Bergara Quartet.

North Americaa s longest running mobile guitar festival celebrates its 10th year.

With Leo Rondeau. 9 p.m., Nov. 11. Caf Nine, 250 State St. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com . Start with a western swing trio from Austin, Texas, featuring female vocals, fiddle and upright bass.

A sold-out crowd packed Blues on Grand on Oct. 25 for a concert, dinner and auction to benefit the Central Iowa Blues Society.

A night of Transylvanian Gypsy music comes to Theatr Mwldan in the form of Tcha Limbergera s Kalotaszeg Trio on Monday, November 9. This trio deliver bursts of soaring musical tragedy and czardas madness, played with breathtaking passion and astonishing virtuosity in true Hungarian Gypsy Band style.

The musical brew has ingredients from across the world: Parisian waltz, Latin salsa, American jazz and songs sung on the routes of Gypsy caravans.

Curt has been a performing guitarist/recording artist for the past 30 years and a private music instructor for the last 20 years.

The final installment of this series features two of the most badass stories of them all.

Dreyfus Jazz celebrates the 100th Birthday of one of the most influential guitarists--Django Reinhardt--with an expansive series of new albums by today's jazz guitar masters.

Mundo Juillerat, a guitarist with "Le Reve," grew up in Hawaii playing the ukulele.

FINGERED night of gypsy and hot club jazz is fast approaching in Bridgwater - and the Mercury has a pair of tickets to give away.

Django Reinhardt is regarded as a guitar genius for many reasons. The legendary Belgian-born composer, who in 1930s Paris introduced the world jazz manousche, commonly known as gypsy jazz or gypsy swing - a fusion of American swing and acoustic folk of the Romani people of Eastern Europe and Central Europe - was technically and musically unmatched ...

Would you like to learn something about jazz? On Monday, Oct. 19, Lloyd Kaplan, jazz musician and music educator, will present a program called "Three Pioneers of Jazz Guitar" at the Warwick Public Library at 7 p.m. He will discuss Eddie Lang, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt, all of whom exerted a profound influence on the development of ...

Ask the members of Ranger and the Re-Arrangers "Why Django Reinhardt?" and there's a moment of thoughtful silence.

After all, this is your great-grandparents' popular music: swingin' jazz in the mold of Django Reinhardt and the harmonizing girl groups of the 1930s - hardly hallucinatory stuff.

Deity-like British musician Richard Thompson is an amazing amalgam. It's as though Dr.

Les Paul's inventions, the Les Paul electric guitar and multitrack recorder are with us today and will long be remembered, but his other great legacy, his music and playing style have drifted into the shadows and may well be forgotten.