Gypsy jazz
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Gypsy jazz is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt, in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, as expressed by their group the Quintette
Tchavolo Schmitt (left) with Steeve Laffont, playing their brand of gypsy jazz at la Chope des Puces, Paris, in 2016
Django Reinhardt, "originator" of gypsy jazz, presides over the Hot Club de Norvège at Djangofestivalen 2018.
Original 78 release by the Quintette du Hot Club de France
Selmer-Maccaferri–type guitars, with distinctive sound holes and "floating" wooden bridges
Romani people
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The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani, colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who traditionally led a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggest
Gypsy jazz
…Gypsy 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…
Two Gypsies by Francisco Iturrino
Kàlo Romani women in Helsinki, Finland, 1930s
Jean-Baptiste Debret: Interior of a gipsy's house in Brazil (c. 1820)
Gypsies camping. Kalé Roma near Swansea in Wales, 1953