Florin Niculescu, the violinist, emerges as the star of the Gipsy Project, Bireli Lagrene's homage to Django Reinhardt. It's only natural. For as much as Reinhardt was a source of inventiveness on the ...

As stubborn specters go, one could do far worse than Django Reinhardt’s. Even guitarist Bireli Lagrene would have to agree -- though it has taken him some time to arrive at that conclusion. Lagrene ...

Virtuosic jazz playing isn’t exactly in short supply these days. Fast fingers, in fact, often seem to be more common than imaginative musical ideas. But Thursday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, speed and ...

France’s Bireli Lagrene started playing guitar and listening to Django Reinhardt records when he was four, in 1970. By the time he cut his first record, at 13, he was immersed in Django’s 30s Gypsy ...

Bireli Lagrene, whose electrifying new album, Gypsy Project (Dreyfus Jazz), represents his best work in several years, must have days when he feels like Michael Corleone: Every time he gets away from ...

The days when the mouldie fygges did battle with the modernists are long gone. The fygges lost, and trad jazz has been consigned to the musical dustbin, or at least to the Real Ale pub, which is much ...

John Etheridge joins Alyn Shipton to suggest the best recordings by three generations of gypsy guitarists whose work is often overshadowed by Django Reinhardt. Artists covered include the Ferre family ...

In a celebration of the music of Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène uses his virtuostic technique to interpret classic songs from several different jazz eras. The album's title track, by Denzil Best, ...

Listening to Bireli Lagrène's renditions of "Melodie au Crepuscule and "Hungaria instantly recalls his deeply bonded connection with the music, the style, and the sound of guitar legend Django ...