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Tchavolo Schmitt (left) with Steeve Laffont, playing their brand of gypsy jazz at la Chope des Puces, Paris, in 2016. Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–1953), in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed by their ...
Genres. Jazz, gypsy jazz, bebop, Romani music. Occupation (s) Musician, composer. Instrument (s) Guitar, violin, banjo. Years active. 1928–1953. Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt] ), was a Belgian Manouche or Sinti jazz guitarist and ...
Biography. Schmitt was born in Saint-Avold, Lorraine, France on 29 May 1957. He started playing guitar at the age of seven with his father as his teacher. [1] His father also introduced him to violin. Schmitt composed his own pieces, incorporating improvisation and challenging techniques, among which Bossa Dorado which has become a jazz standard.
Music career. A cousin of Stochelo Rosenberg, Jimmy Rosenberg started playing guitar when he was seven years old. Two years later he led his own trio, the Gypsy Kids, which played in the Gypsy jazz tradition [2] and appeared on the British documentary Django Legacy. The trio released its first album, Safari, when Rosenberg was twelve.
Gypsy jazz; Pages in category "Gypsy jazz guitarists" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Selmer guitar — often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by English speakers, as early British advertising stressed the designer rather than manufacturer — is an unusual acoustic guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt. Selmer, a French manufacturer, produced the instrument from 1932 to about 1952.
Martin Taylor in Hobart, Australia in 2014, with his signature model Peerless Guitar. Martin Taylor often uses guitars built by Scottish-based luthier Mike Vanden. They produced the Martin Taylor Artistry archtop with another, nylon-stringed, archtop used for Spirit of Django. [ 6] Throughout the 1990s he played a Yamaha AEX1500, which he ...
Musician. Instrument. Guitar. Website. Official site. Joscho Stephan (born 23 June 1979 in Mönchengladbach, West Germany) is a German jazz guitarist who is known for his l interpretation of classical, jazz and pop standards in the style of Gypsy jazz. He began playing the guitar at the age of six, influenced by his father who had been a member ...