In 2012, upon hearing the phrase "gypsy punk," it is acceptable to roll one's eyes. The bands that revealed the frantic possibilities of fiddle-and-accordion driven Eastern European music to the punk ...
Gypsy Jazz or Manouche was the invention of Django Reinhardt whose sound came from old gypsy tunes played with a swing rhythm. During the inter-war years, Django heard Louis Armstrong and Duke ...
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Harmonouche, 1 p.m. Led by French guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Raphael Bas, the New Orleans quartet plays French and Gypsy jazz that swings with good humor. Bas has assembled a well-traveled, ...
NORTHAMPTON – Andrew Lawrence remembers when Django in June was nothing more than a one-day workshop held under a tree. But by the time this year’s edition of the Gypsy jazz festival and workshop ...
When the Hot Club of Reading plays a Berks Jazz Fest concert Thursday night at the WCR Center for the Arts, it will welcome as a special guest a French accordion virtuoso who 20 years ago crossed the ...
Bob Casey, one of the most authentic sounding Gypsy jazz players around the Roanoke Valley, says that he, bassist Jeff Hofmann and two out-of-towners -- Thomas Wakefield and Dallas Veitty-- are ...
Seventy years after Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France fused Gypsy guitar with the jazz of the day, a new "Hot Club" has emerged in the Motor City. The Hot Club of Detroit puts a ...
COYLE — Gypsy jazz will start off the new year at the Concerts in the Woods at 3 p.m. Sunday. “Our first concert of the new year has become a tradition to have Seattle’s premier gypsy jazz band, ...
There’s a newcomer to the Coulee Region music scene with a sound that’s romantic, sophisticated, sentimental and swinging, all at the same time. The band is called Under Paris Skies, and the trio ...