At the age of 16 while still in high school, Max O’Rourke attended Django Camp in Northampton to learn more about jazz manouche, also referred to as hot club-style jazz. Now years later, O’Rourke is ...
I think each of us is equally aware that we are playing a contemporary version of a music that now is almost 70 years old. We bring to the genre all of our musical experiences which include the ...
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 ...
Reinhardt, whose virtuosic guitar playing defied losing the use of two fingers in a fire, died prematurely, at 43, in 1953, while Grappelli lived to almost 90. Through recordings and direct lineage, ...
Some 20 years ago, when a musical group known as Bleu Django formed, it needed a bit of a support system to form as well. Violinist Carolyn Dutton of Nashville remembers. “We initially weren’t quite ...
Later this week, the quiet, suburban town of Maplewood will become a pantheon for the guitar gods when the annual Django A Gogo festival arrives, celebrating the music of the influential jazz ...
The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot in reference to artists and musicians — sometimes correctly, sometimes a little overzealously. But if it applies to anyone, it's Django Reinhardt. With no ...
In the final months of his life, the transcendent Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt despaired that he’d been forgotten, and that his singular contributions to jazz would go unrecognized. Only 43 when ...
The Django, downtown Manhattan’s premier jazz club, offers an impressive month of music with jazz legends and rising stars. Five emerging, award-winning female vocalists hit our stage in November: ...
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 ...
Submitted photo Carolyn Dutton of Bleu Django is shown at a past performance. A truly unique jazz performance will be returning to Helen Haddad Hall this summer. Known as Indiana’s premier hot club ...
Break out the dancing shoes and maybe stretch out the legs because the Big Sky Django Jazz Festival is bringing two nights of live music and dancing to Missoula. The festival will feature three ...
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