January is rarely stacked with many entertainment highlights, but there still are some must-see events for music lovers in Richmond this weekend. The annual Djangoary Music Soiree certainly belongs in ...

Reinhardt, whose virtuosic guitar playing defied losing the use of two fingers in a fire, died prematurely, at 43, in 1953, while Grappelli lived to almost 90. Through recordings and direct lineage, ...

Jazz lovers know that gypsy guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt was one of the genre’s stars during the ’30s and ’40s — a fact that will be celebrated on Friday at the 10th annual Django a Gogo tribute ...

Django Reinhardt was born in 1910 to a family of French Gypsies. He taught himself guitar before he could read or write, but then he nearly lost his life (and badly hurt his hand) as a young man by ...

Few guitar-centric albums appeal to those fatigued from the instrument's blanched overexposure. Django's Moustache's South Austin Gypsy Jazz will. Given their name, this acoustic guitar-guitar-bass/ ...

Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) practically invented jazz guitar. A product of gypsy culture and music, living and working in Paris in the 1930s-40s, he and his group, the Hot Club Quintet, which notably ...