Jean Baptiste Reinhardt was a Belgian Gypsy born in 1910 in the Benelux town of Liverchies. He would never be known as Jean Baptiste, however. Django was his moniker and his is a name that looms as ...
Djangology 49 (Django Reinhardt; Bluebird). The recording is from 1949, gently remastered to bring out the subtle tone of Django Reinhardt`s guitar and Stephane Grappelli`s violin. The sound is ...
Vocalist/musician/artist Tatiana Eva-Marie has released a new recording, “Djangology.” Her latest album focuses on celebrating the music of Django Reinhardt. Instead of focusing on the emblematic ...
French Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt spent most of his life in Paris, but he never took the Metro because he couldn’t read -- words or music -- and didn’t want to get off at the wrong stop.
Stephane Wrembel, the France-born, Berklee-educated guitarist now based in New Jersey, produced the first Django A Gogo festival in 2004 as a single evening to pay homage to Django Reinhardt. Since ...
Between the outmoded technology of his original 78 rpm vinyl recordings and the pick-a-song digital downloads now in vogue, creating a "selected discography" of Django's music is a Byzantine and ...