Harmonious Wail — standard-bearers for Americana-infused gypsy jazz/swing music in Madison and beyond for 30 years — had a May 8 gig at Stoughton Opera House postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Richard Smith’s virtuoso finger-style guitar skill makes his six-string acoustic instrument sound like a miniature orchestra. Nonetheless, Smith plays well with others. A native of England, Smith ...

Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...

Gypsy Schaeffer, the foursome made up by Joel Yennior (trombone), Andy Voelker (saxophones), Chris Punis (drums) and Jef Charland (bass) calls its third CD quite simply New Album. That's a truism, as ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, guitarist Evan Perri rested on a sectional sofa that consumed most of his bachelor pad in Grosse Pointe Park. Perri fiddled with the strings on his new acoustic guitar ...

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Although the NOLA Sweetie Pies are a fairly new performance name on the New Orleans music scene, where seasoned musicians ...

This is a gypsy combo of the Django Reinhardt persuasion, rather than being fully-crazed wedding party cacophony. In fact, reedman Ken Peplowski makes matters even more specialized by concentrating on ...

Gypsy jazz -- recalling the 1930s heyday ofguitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli -- is the specialty of the Hot Club of Davenport, which will play at 9 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at ...

Curiosity got the best of this reporter a week ago when I heard, “Anouman,” the group that was performing on the Green, was going to play Gypsy Jazz. Well known jazz genres that come to mind include ...

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