Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably ...

A bar fight breaks out during a pivotal scene in Django, the musically crisp yet mournful new wartime drama by Étienne Comar. As the fracas unfolds, the band keeps playing, with a blithe bemusement ...

John Jorgenson performed two pieces in our studio: the new composition "Istiqbal" and "El Camino del Che" from his latest CD, "Ultraspontane." Guitarist John Jorgenson has insanely fast fingers — they ...

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, ...

As far as Wikipedia is concerned, guitarist Stéphane Wrembel is best known as a composer and peformer of Gypsy Jazz. A New York Times writer went so far as to call Wrembel “perhaps the most creative ...