Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Django Reinhardt, playing live circa 1970. Django Reinhardt was a true guitarist's guitarist. As George Benson states, "Django ...

The title of “most talented guitarist of all time” isn’t something to be dished out lightly. And when it comes down to it, such a label is up to individual listeners and tastes. However, Django ...

Manouche Jazz, commonly known as "Gypsy Jazz," is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by the Quintette du Hot Club de ...

The Gypsy jazz guitarist, who would have turned 100 this weekend, is the toast of tribute albums and festivals. John Jorgenson on Django Reinhardt: “It was so underground. Nobody knew anything about ...

A hundred years ago this month, a child was born in a Gypsy caravan at a Belgian crossroads. The baby was christened "Jean", but to his people he was always Django, from a Romany verb meaning: "I ...

Few could have predicted that the first European to come up with a unique jazz style would be a peripatetic, three-fingered, Belgian gypsy guitarist named Django Reinhardt. Fewer could have ...

Add Us On i Make JazzTimes a preferred source and Google will show you more of our stories in Top Stories. Despite being recognized as one of the founders of modern jazz guitar, Django Reinhardt has ...

He jammed for the Nazis and aided the resistance, but this tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation The fire, the attack and the thrilling ...

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 ...

In the months leading up to his death, Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt lamented that he might be overlooked by history. Indeed, by the time a heart attack took Reinhardt’s life at the age of 43 in ...