Vail Jazz will celebrate the musical legacy of Django at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 18, at the Sonnenalp Hotel and at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 19, in the Jazz Tent at Vail Square in ...

There are close to 5 billion videos watched every day on YouTube. A YouTube video can go viral and propel an unknown from total obscurity to world fame in a matter of days. In 2012, the music video ...

French Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt spent most of his life in Paris, but he never took the Metro because he couldn’t read -- words or music -- and didn’t want to get off at the wrong stop.

2010 is the 100th birthday—the centennial—of Django Reinhardt’s birth. He was born in a gypsy wagon in a suburb of Brussels in 1910. Although he only lived to be 43, dying in 1953, he wrote the book ...

Quentin Tarantino has brought two R&B legends back from the dead — not on screen, but on the soundtrack to his upcoming film Django Unchained, which will feature a cut pairing godfather of soul James ...

With Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino takes his love of cool music and his ongoing personal involvement in his movies’ soundtracks to a new level. In addition to smartly recycled, classic ...

Guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt is regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. The Romani-French composer gave birth to a new form of music in the 1930s known as gypsy jazz ...