Gypsy jazz
Sign in to saveAlso known as manouche jazz, hot club jazz, jazz manouche, sinti jazz, Gypsy swing
music genre
Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Jazz Romani music Bal-musette
- Cultural origins
- c. 1934, Paris , France
- Typical instruments
- acoustic guitar violin double bass others on occasion
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Encyclopedic overview
Tchavolo Schmitt (left) with Steeve Laffont, playing their brand of gypsy jazz at la Chope des Puces, Paris, in 2016
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 group the Quintette du Hot Club de France. The style has its origins in France and the Manouche clan of Romanis, and has remained popular amongst this clan. Gypsy jazz is often called by the French name jazz manouche or, alternatively, manouche jazz in English-language sources.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gypsy jazz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.