Before the coronavirus outbreak, Wrembel visited the Fresh Air studio to talk about his musical influences and to play, with his trio, songs from his new album, Django L'Impressionniste. This is FRESH ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. As with the previous "experiments," The Django Experiment V was recorded ...

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 ...

Steve Gunn was an eighteen-year-old music lover partial to hardcore punk and rap when he bought his first Willie album, a used copy of Red Headed Stranger, at a Philadelphia record store in the ...

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 ...

Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably ...

The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot in reference to artists and musicians — sometimes correctly, sometimes a little overzealously. But if it applies to anyone, it's Django Reinhardt. With no ...

When a modern ensemble pays tribute to Django Reinhardt, it’s usually the same setup: a Django-obsessed guitarist leads a gypsy jazz group through material that Reinhardt made famous with the ...

Django Fest, Saturday, Jan. 19 & Sunday, Jan. 20, $10–$25, various times, Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro; www.catscradle.com Few musicians evoke such a cult of personality around their body of work ...

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 ...