In the world of Manouche Swing, where the speed limit is already high, Angelo Debarre ups the ante with his blindingly fast and melodic guitar lines, improvised to a selection of 11 of his original ...

Angelo Debarre, born in St-Denis, France, started playing guitar at the age of 8. In the manush (gipsy) community, tradition is transmitted orally in family parties and gatherings, where music always ...

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. But to close listeners, it always ...

The body of recordings made by gipsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli in the 1930s and 1940s has long inspired imitators. Every country, it seems, has at least one ...

If the Parisian aesthetic is about anything, it is about joy, elegantly packaged. This disc of swing tunes embodies that, being unfailingly ...

No other genre makes you laugh out loud with joy and delight like Gypsy jazz, whose guitarists' and fiddlers' unfeasibly flying fingers provoke astonished reactions of disbelief again and again, even ...

If the Parisian aesthetic is about anything, it is about joy, elegantly packaged. This disc of swing tunes embodies that, being unfailingly exuberant but never uncontrolled. This is hot and sexy gypsy ...