The SPIRIT OF DJANGO REINHARDT Concert event moves to the “new and prestigious" FREDERICK P. ROSE HALL, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, NYC, produced by Pat Philips & Ettore ...

Starring legendary Gypsy guitarist TCHAVOLO SCHMITT, Gypsy guitar star DORADO SCHMITT, virtuoso violinist FLORIN NICULESCU, accordion great LUDOVIC BEIER, young guitar dynamo SAMSON SCHMITT, top Dutch ...

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 ...

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, ...

Django Reinhardt was born in 1910 to a family of French Gypsies. He taught himself guitar before he could read or write, but then he nearly lost his life (and badly hurt his hand) as a young man by ...

NORTHAMPTON – Andrew Lawrence remembers when Django in June was nothing more than a one-day workshop held under a tree. But by the time this year’s edition of the Gypsy jazz festival and workshop ...

Swing, in its most joyful manifestations, is clearly the thing for French guitar virtuoso Dorado Schmitt. As the name of his band attests, he and The Django All-Stars are devoted to furthering the ...