At the age of 16 while still in high school, Max O’Rourke attended Django Camp in Northampton to learn more about jazz manouche, also referred to as hot club-style jazz. Now years later, O’Rourke is ...

I think each of us is equally aware that we are playing a contemporary version of a music that now is almost 70 years old. We bring to the genre all of our musical experiences which include the ...

LANGLEY — Langley music festival DjangoFest Northwest will be in full swing this year for the first time since 2019. DjangoFest is taking place from Sept. 21-25 at the Whidbey Island Center for the ...

In the final months of his life, the transcendent Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt despaired that he’d been forgotten, and that his singular contributions to jazz would go unrecognized. Only 43 when ...

When a band grabs onto a concept for a record, the result can be sprawling and without tether. On Django Django’s fifth studio album, Off Planet, that concept is outer space and ufology, and the ...

It's been a long time since that late May, 2013 week in Luleå, Sweden, where pianist Django Bates and his Belovèd Trio first collaborated with the renowned Norrbotten Big Band. Fully documented in the ...

Fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey will be delighted to find an Easter egg in Django Django's 2021 single, and title track to the London band's new album, "Glowing in the Dark." It samples Arthur C. Clarke ...

Their fifth album is a 21-track monster, with multiple guests. An explicitly stated attempt to blast off in all directions, away from any usual working practices and templates, it’s mostly a success.