French jazz guitarist and composer Jean “Django” Reinhardt’s life is the stuff of legend. Two of his fingers became paralyzed as the result of a fire early in his career, but he persevered and went on ...

It was the cult that scared me off, the way habitues of the coffeehouse demimonde would pronounce the words "Django Reinhardt" as though invoking a secular saint of the Religion of Jazz. I suppose I ...

The tell-tale term in this video’s title is “legacy,” since this documentary reveals little about gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, focusing instead on today’s Reinhardt imitators. Even so, it seems ...

January 23 marked the 100th birthday of the influential jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt. Today, more than 50 years after his death, musicians are still paying tribute to the man who ...

Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known. Facing artistic obsolescence while jazz fans who once embraced him were hooked on the latest thing, Django assembled a new quintet of players ...