PING! Just imagine that you are the leader - that is, the No.1 violinist - in a fine orchestra, vigorously performing the first movement of a Beethoven symphony in a beautiful cathedral setting. When ...

Star Mountain Events on Star Mountain Road in Sharon will present Route 5 Jive on Saturday, July 26 at 6 p.m. A swinging string ensemble in the style of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, Route ...

According to their bio, Kukuly and the Fuego is “a Knoxville-based acoustic ensemble that plays hot jazz inspired by the music of legendary French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and jazz ...

The Washington Acoustic Music Association's (WAMA) annual Pickersfest Music Festival will take place the first weekend in August at the Oakview Grange in. The festival officially starts on Friday, Aug ...

In 1934 Django and other musicians including Stéphane Grappelli, whom Django had met during an intermission when both were playing at a local hotel, Louis Vola, Roger Chaput and Django's brother ...

While Gilmour became “mildly obsessed” as he developed the guitar part, the band’s brainwave was to open Wish You Were Here with the effect of a listener cycling through radio stations, alighting on ...

Stéphane Ganzer, a state councilor for the Valais Canton, told SRF, the Swiss radio and television broadcasting corporation, on Wednesday that 90 percent of Blatten had been buried.

The group’s style has been called “Gypsy Jazz” after the swing created by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, but their compositions draw from Latin, Romanian, classical, rock and Greek ...

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997, born Stefano Grappelli) was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist ...

The group features a violin, guitars, and double bass, playing music influenced by Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, and Stéphane Grappelli.

After touring and recording with Stéphane Grappelli throughout the 1980s, and then recording seven superior, straight-ahead albums in the 1990s for the Linn label, Martin Taylor has made a radical ...

"A couple of months later, I was back again, having been invited by Stéphane Grappelli to play with him. Not bad for a 13-year-old: a Ronnie Scott's debut with the Grand Master of the violin.