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 ...
Django Reinhardt was a true guitarist’s guitarist. As George Benson states, “Django stretched the guitar imagination to its limit. He was the fastest, the most creative, he had great rhythm, and he ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The live concert will follow the Django canon ...
Django Reinhardt is a pioneering jazz guitarist whose music is still revered by musicians and fans. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / William P. Gottlieb San Antonio music school The Guitar Dojo is hosting ...
Gypsy jazz innovator Django Reinhardt would have celebrated his 100th birthday last Saturday. But when one of the world's leading proponents of Reinhardt's music, guitarist John Jorgenson, performed ...
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 ...
When Django Reinhardt switched from acoustic to electric guitar, his fans, feeling betrayed, called him "Judas." However, he later used this new instrument to record Blonde On Blonde, often considered ...
Stephane Wrembel, a favorite of Rochester audiences, is best known for his admiring homages to Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. On Saturday, Feb. 19, at the Lovin' Cup in Henrietta, Wrembel ...
and a host of special guests mark the 100th birthday of jazz guitar great Django Reinhardt. Thousand $ Car backs Jon Langford of the Mekons at Chickie Wah Wah in an aggregation dubbed Thousand $ ...
This loose, intermittently compelling biopic of jazz great Django Reinhardt offers a much-deserved spotlight role for French actor Reda Kateb. In Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown,” Sean Penn boasts, ...