The gypsy-jazz community
Players
- Axel Couty — Engineer learning gypsy jazz — building this tool and filming the journey. I'm an engineer who fell for gypsy jazz and wanted a faster way to learn it — so I built Haute Gitanerie: arpeggios and chords you can actually see on the neck, and the standards I'm working through. I film the journey on YouTube and Instagram — the wins, the plateaus, and the tunes I'm chasing. Say hi, tell me what's broken, or point me at a shape I'm getting wrong.
- Michel Mercier — Gypsy-jazz guitarist — runs the Green Linnet jam in Paris. A pillar of the Paris scene: for some twenty years he's run the Sunday-night jam at the Green Linnet — a near-mandatory stop for gypsy-jazz players passing through Paris. His site is also a serious Django Reinhardt archive — rare photos and a worldwide registry of gypsy-guitar luthiers.
- Adrien Katz — Gypsy-jazz guitarist and teacher in Paris. Gypsy-jazz guitarist of Greek heritage with a very personal touch, and a teacher. He also runs a Paris jam (at Victor & D'Artagnan).
- Steven Reinhardt — Gypsy-jazz guitarist — runs the Chope des Puces jam. A descendant of Django Reinhardt, with a powerful, striking style. He runs the jam at the Chope des Puces in Saint-Ouen.
- Clovis Brossard — Gypsy-jazz double bassist, Paris.
- Lisa Liu — Gypsy-jazz guitarist and teacher, San Francisco. Guitarist and teacher based in San Francisco, with an approach that makes improvising click fast.
Resources & links
Sites & forums
- GuitareJazzManouche.com — The reference French hub: a huge library of chord grids, a wiki and an active forum.
- DjangoBooks — English-speaking shop, forum and method books — the classic gypsy-jazz store.
Videos & teachers
Festivals
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