Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...

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Django Reinhardt was a true guitarist’s guitarist. As George Benson states, “Django stretched the guitar imagination to its limit. He was the fastest, the most creative, he had great rhythm, and he ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Django Reinhardt Celebration pays tribute to the iconic gypsy jazz ...

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 ...

Guitarist Stephane Wrembel does not like the term jazz when applied to his music. Wrembel plays music inspired by the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt, which is often referred to as gypsy jazz, ...

Reinhardt biographer Michael Dregni had this to say in his book Gypsy Jazz: In search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing: When Django was at his zenith in the 1930s and 1940s, no one ...

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 ...

Django Reinhardt is a pioneering jazz guitarist whose music is still revered by musicians and fans. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / William P. Gottlieb San Antonio music school The Guitar Dojo is hosting ...

A number of front-rank European and American jazz artists united at Lincoln Center for the annual salute to the memory of Django Reinhardt, the legendary Belgian Gypsy guitarist who died in 1953. A ...

2010 is the 100th birthday—the centennial—of Django Reinhardt’s birth. He was born in a gypsy wagon in a suburb of Brussels in 1910. Although he only lived to be 43, dying in 1953, he wrote the book ...

Stephane Wrembel Trio specializes in the style of the Belgian-Romani guitarist known for popularizing “Gypsy Jazz.” Credit: Courtesy / Stephane Wrembel Trio Stephane Wrembel, one of the foremost ...