Belgian gypsy-jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was 18 and poised for international stardom in 1928 when a fire ripped through his caravan on the outskirts of Paris. His left hand was badly burned in ...

The producers of the annual Django Reinhardt New York Festival have followed up the superlative CD drawn from the Festival's 2002 run with a DVD from the 2004 concerts at Birdland. While the DVD ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting January 1st, 2005 - Buy Django Reinhardt NY Festival - Live at Birdland 2004 DVD ...

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 ...

From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django ...

Jazz lovers know that gypsy guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt was one of the genre’s stars during the ’30s and ’40s — a fact that will be celebrated on Friday at the 10th annual Django a Gogo tribute ...

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 ...

Jean "Django" Reinhardt is credited with inventing the style of music called jazz manouche, gypsy jazz. In 1934, he and fiddler Stéphane Grappelli established the Quintette du Hot Club de France, ...

“Django in June” a celebration of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, will be back in Northampton for the next month. The flagship offering of the monthlong gathering is “Django Camp” on the Smith ...

Pat Phillips Ettore Stratta launched the firstever DJANGO REINHARDT FESITVAL in 2000 at Birdland in NYC which has become its home Now entering its sixth year the fesitval serves to preserve and cary ...