Vail Jazz will celebrate the musical legacy of Django at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, at the Sonnenalp Hotel and at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, in the Jazz Tent at Vail Square in ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: Well, at the moment that record was being made, the Nazis were ascendant in Germany. The spectre of war loomed over Europe and somehow they found that rhythm.

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 ...

If there is one musician who needs little introduction, it’s French gypsy jazz legend Django Reinhardt. Born Jean ‘Django’ Reinhardt on Jan 23rd 1910 in Belgium to an acrobat mother and ...

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 ...

In the sphere of improvisational guitarists one name always warrants mention: Django Reinhardt. He was in a class by himself and has been referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of jazz guitar. To this day no ...

2010 is the 100th birthday—the centennial—of Django Reinhardt’s birth. He was born in a gypsy wagon in a suburb of Brussels in 1910. Although he only lived to be 43, dying in 1953, he wrote the book ...

"The passion that he put into each note was unbelievable. He was ferocious." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Peter Frampton ...

One of the world’s leading proponents of the music of Gypsy jazz innovator Django Reinhardt, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday Saturday, guitarist John Jorgenson offered illuminating ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The live concert will follow the Django canon ...

Django Reinhardt, the gypsy jazz legend who became the toast of Paris in the mid-1930s, is such a vivid and irresistible figure that it’s no wonder he gets the lion’s share of the credit as jazz’s ...

Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn’t jazz critics like France’s Hugues Panassié called him Europe’s leading jazz artist and the world’s greatest jazz guitarist? Django was ...