Besides being one cool-looking dude whose appearance and artistry seemed to be in perfect sync, Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) remains among the most influential guitarists in jazz and pop music history ...

Exponents of "Le Jazz Hot" gathered for the second annual Django Reinhardt New York Festival, a tribute to the innovative Belgian-born Gypsy guitarist who died in 1953. The weeklong event marked the ...

When Django Reinhardt switched from acoustic to electric guitar, his fans, feeling betrayed, called him "Judas." However, he later used this new instrument to record Blonde On Blonde, often considered ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Steve Gunn was an eighteen-year-old music lover partial to hardcore punk and rap when he bought his first Willie album, a used copy of Red Headed Stranger, at a Philadelphia record store in the ...

Before the coronavirus outbreak, Wrembel visited the Fresh Air studio to talk about his musical influences and to play, with his trio, songs from his new album, Django L'Impressionniste. This is FRESH ...

Mr. Terrasson is the winner of the 1993 Monk competition, a two-time Grammy nominee, and winner of numerous awards for his CDs - Prix Django Reinhardt, Best Jazz Album of the Year, two Django d'Or ...

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