Born one hundred years ago, manouche jazz legend Django Reinhardt is often considered the best jazz guitarist of all time. France is honoring the musician with concerts, special edition CDs and TV ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The term “Gypsy jazz” can be considered offensive. The term “jazz manouche” is a more contemporary term, but this article contains some references to the other term in direct quotes and ...

A music night presenting jazz manouche, also known as Gypsy jazz, will be held on March 11, at 8pm, at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi. A music night presenting jazz manouche, also known as ...

Manouche Jazz, commonly known as "Gypsy Jazz," is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by the Quintette du Hot Club de ...

It is a little known fact that Django Reinhardt was not only an incredible guitarist, he was also extremely good at stealing chickens. For the manouche clan of gypsies to which he belonged, this was a ...

Call it Django or Gypsy jazz, Hot Club, swing or Manouche (another name for gypsy), it's a style that hits you immediately blazing, hard-picked runs played on a hyper-resonant, flat-top guitar ...

Djoin a djam on a street corner or catch a performance in honor of Belgian jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt during the five-day festival. A previous year’s DjangoFest Northwest ends in an all-instruments ...

If not for a fire, Parisian Django Reinhardt might have stuck with the banjo. When the left side of his body was severely burned, partially paralyzing two of his fingers, his brother bought him a ...

A versatile musician adept in many styles, Vince Brown is a skillful swing guitarist well known in the region for a variety of music projects.

A new music festival is being staged on Anglesey next weekend. Dedicated to the world of Swing, Gypsy Jazz and Manouche Music it is being staged at various venues in Menai Bridge from Friday, March 27 ...

PUTNEY — He's been called a guitar wizard by Guitar Player Magazine and on April 26, Stephane Wrembel, who was born in Paris and raised in Fontainebleau, will bring his Django Reinhardt inspired Gypsy ...