The Lost Fingers, Platinum Selling Gypsy Jazz Trio from Canada

The Lost Fingers, Platinum Selling Gypsy Jazz Trio from Canada, are Featured in Episode 3 of Gypsy Jazz Guitar Secrets Magazine.

Ultimate jazz event at five Broughty Ferry venues

Dundee star band Havana Swing also feature presenting their feelgood mix of Django Reinhardt and 30s jazz. Singers Alison Affleck and Cindy Douglas, swing band The Big Easy and blues guitarist Sandy Tweeddale are more major names from the jazz and blues world coming to the Ferry. via Ultimate jazz event at five Broughty Ferry venues […]

Kyle Reid reviving old-time jazz style

Reid explored early Rock, like Chuck Berry, dove into Classic Rock, transitioned into Blues. Then he found his way into traditional Jazz, Dixieland Jazz and Gypsy Jazz, which is where he’s currently at. His project, Kyle Reid and the Low Swingin’ Chariots, is a small combo jazz band with horns, guitars, upright bass and drums, […]

Rare hot club footage

This is quite a Reinhardt gem of a video clip. Check out how the rhythm guitar in particular, but also the whole rhythm section really lifts the energy in the second violin chorus.

Caravan of Thieves

“There’s something about the band’s witty, spirited gypsy folk-jazz that is so new and yet so familiar all at once.”–Washington Post Everything I’ve heard about this band makes me want to see them live. via Washington Post.

Watch “Woody Allen plays jazz at The Carlyle in NYC” on YouTube

Woody Allen plays jazz at The Carlyle in NYC: http://youtu.be/NmJ_I3ubcCk

The moment you’ve been waiting for! Google Play takes Scandinavia by storm! Take a look at “Swing 41”

https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bv6cjt7z73slbwmv4scbyr6nvyy

Revival for the art of Hungarian Song

Great article here about Tcha Limberger, who is apparently, the latest light of jazz Magyar Nota. Revival for the art of Hungarian Song – Yorkshire Post.

Guitarist Patrick Berrogain to perform at Carmel Valley Library

This is a style of jazz often said to have been started by guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt in the 1930s. He was foremost among a group of Romani guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s through the 1950s, and was noted for combining a dark, chromatic gypsy flavor with the swing articulation of […]

sarah-smith-quartet

The Sarah Smith Quartet plays Gypsy jazz with authentic passion, fire and virtuosity, keeping alive the spirit of the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/sarah-smith-quartet-guests-north-6767904