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 ...
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 ...
Swift is a gifted chameleon, who has sung with the aptly named Postmodern Jukebox and her own hard rock band. Here, she ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the ...