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, ...

Django Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz guitarist whose centennial fell early on this year’s calendar, infuriated his closest friend and best collaborator, Stephane Grappelli, with stereotypically Gypsy-ish ...

At any given time, there are a few acts on the jazz scene who lovingly imitate the legendary Quintette du Hot Club de France. That band's innovations in the 1930s, driven by guitarist Django Reinhardt ...

In the final months of his life, the transcendent Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt despaired that he’d been forgotten, and that his singular contributions to jazz would go unrecognized. Only 43 when ...

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Brookline violinist Ben Powell studied jazz violin at the Berklee College of Music and now, he's being compared to one of the best known jazz violinists in history: Stephan Grappelli, who played ...

The year was 1973. Five years had passed since the Kumpania tour had, against all odds, blazed a trail across the American Northeast, five years since Lenny Kramer's Rolling Stone feature had ...

The Django Reinhardt NY Festival returns with The Young Lions of Gypsy Jazz headed by the very talented guitarist Samson Schmitt, son of legendary gypsy guitarist/violinist Dorado Schmitt. Location: ...