It goes from legendary figures from many, many decades ago like Django Reinhardt, the legendary jazz musician. We have sixteen guitars coming directly from George Benson. I’m thrilled to be able ...

And now, on “Django-shift” (Whirlwind Recordings), he offers another set of reimaginings, playing the nimble music of guitar great Django Reinhardt with a brawny trio. This project began in ...

His work with acoustic guitars (Django's preference) is especially impressive, since this instrument has been all but abandoned in the jazz world in favor of the ubiquitous electrics. He's ...

The latest tribute is by guitar virtuoso Frank Vignola. Belgian-born gypsy Django Reinhardt is best-known as the co-founder of the world-famous Quintet of the Hot Club of France in the 1930s.

Here’s how it works. Django Reinhardt remains one of the jazz world's most iconic players, and now the Levin Deluxe guitar with which he weaved his two-finger (and thumb)ed magic is going under the ...

Two of his fingers became paralyzed as the result of a fire early in his career, but he persevered and went on to develop the “hot” jazz guitar technique ... century. “Django is one of ...

Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known ... Also, Reinhardt had given up his acoustic Selmer for the electric guitar, which may sound a bit jarring to those used to his famous ...