At the age of 16 while still in high school, Max O’Rourke attended Django Camp in Northampton to learn more about jazz manouche, also referred to as hot club-style jazz. Now years later, O’Rourke is ...

I think each of us is equally aware that we are playing a contemporary version of a music that now is almost 70 years old. We bring to the genre all of our musical experiences which include the ...

One of the best kept secrets in jazz is the Django Festival Allstars. Formed in 2002, they recapture the joyous and nostalgic sound of gypsy jazz made popular in Paris by Django Reinhardt and Stephane ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conrad Herwig and the Latin Side All Stars have a new jazz album and a new residency at the Django jazz club in New York City. That's from the new album by Conrad Herwig and the Latin Side All Stars. ...

Break out the dancing shoes and maybe stretch out the legs because the Big Sky Django Jazz Festival is bringing two nights of live music and dancing to Missoula. The festival will feature three ...

Submitted photo Carolyn Dutton of Bleu Django is shown at a past performance. A truly unique jazz performance will be returning to Helen Haddad Hall this summer. Known as Indiana’s premier hot club ...

Djoin a djam on a street corner or catch a performance in honor of Belgian jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt during the five-day festival. A previous year’s DjangoFest Northwest ends in an all-instruments ...

Later this week, the quiet, suburban town of Maplewood will become a pantheon for the guitar gods when the annual Django A Gogo festival arrives, celebrating the music of the influential jazz ...