Munro created and directed the Jazz Studies Program at The Conservatory of Music at Purchase College in 1993 and is now Professor Emeritus (retired). He has been a teaching artist at the Litchfield ...

Gypsy Swing is a thoroughly delightful album that features the violin and guitar virtuosity of Ismael Reinhardt, a relative of the legendary Django Reinhardt. Building on the legacy of Django and ...

It is fairly impossible to discuss "gypsy swing" without discussing Django Reinhardt. The two entities are synonymous. Reinhardt, along with violinist cohort Stephane Grappelli, made a significant ...

The Olin Arts Center Concert Hall is the setting for two don’t-miss jazz performances in May. Masters of the sophisticated French-Gypsy swing pioneered by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist ...

From the Gypsy camps outside Paris to the clubs of New York, it's still the ultimate outsider music. Gypsy jazz came to prominence in the 1930s with guitarist Django Reinhardt. But it isn't just the ...

For Allen Russell, his parents' first date would set the foundation for his musical appreciation. On that first date — a concert with master jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli and mandolin player David ...

Like the grapes transplanted from the French countryside to California's Wine Country, the Gypsy swing of guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli has thrived in the Bay Area's ...

Kean Stage is pleased to present the Savannah-based gypsy jazz band Velvet Caravan at 3 p.m. Sunday, November 4. The show will take place at Enlow Recital Hall on Kean University's east campus. This ...

No doubt you’ve heard strains of Gypsy Jazz as background music in films or on TV. “For many people when they hear it, it will sound a little familiar," said Jake Myers. "Most people have heard it ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In a nod to their musical idol, the members of the jazz manouche band Minor Swing managed to turn a hobby into a display of a vintage genre that is as passionate as the European ...