PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a nod to their musical idol, the members of the jazz manouche band Minor Swing managed to turn a hobby into a display of a vintage genre that is as passionate as the European ...
Swing Gitan; What Is This Thing Called Love?; New York in November; Minor Swing; Nuages; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Manoir des mes Reves; China Boy; Stompin' at Decca; Montagne Sainte ...
Gypsy jazz -- the fiery and elegant acoustic-string sound made famous in the 1930s and '40s by French Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt -- is all the rage in the early 21st century. This year, scores ...
It was a frosty Sunday evening and the window of the Park Slope bar Barbès was fogged to opacity. Inside, at the far end of the narrow bar, applause was spilling out through a velvet-curtained doorway ...
Manouche Jazz, commonly known as "Gypsy Jazz," is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by the Quintette du Hot Club de ...
Master guitarist George Cole loves a song with good bones. Get in, tell a four-minute story, get out. An interview in the Kensington home he shares with Sheila, his wife and booking agent, and Val, ...
The Berlin film festival opens on Thursday with the world premiere of Django, a biopic about Gypsy-jazz great Django Reinhardt focused on the little-known story of his family’s persecution by the ...
From the moment Swing Gitan begins, one wonders how this music, forged in the Hot Club of France seventy years ago, has ever cooled in popularity for even a moment. Recorded at the now-annual Django ...
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