John Jorgenson Quintet
Known as the "U.S. ambassadors of gypsy jazz."
There wasn't always a thing called gypsy jazz, but the John Jorgenson Quintet embodies it in its truest form, and they have a lot of fun doing it. Gypsy jazz is a string-driven swing sound based on a movement in France in the 1930s, specifically the work of Django Reinhardt and Stepane Grappelli. There are festivals worldwide honoring it, a Festival Dhango in France, a Django Fest Northwest on Whidby Island in Washington state, and the Djangofollies in Belgium, so yes, it's a real thing. A big thing.
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