All About Jazz — Saturday, May 8th, Show 8:00 PM The Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 Tickets: $18.50 Adv./$19.50 Door (510) 644-2020 2010 is the Django Reinhardt centennial year and The George Cole Quintet is coming to the East Bay to c... more info

Guardian Music — Jazz and folk guitarist with a parallel career as a cartoonistThe revival of traditional jazz in the 1950s prompted any number of amateur musicians to play for fun, the purists among them inspired by deep commitment to the New Orleans cause. A select... more info

All About Jazz — If you can imagine the ideal soundtrack to driving through the scented country roads of France on a hot lazy summer's day then it would be the music of Martin Taylor's Spirit of Django. To mark the 100th Anniversary of the birth of one of the founder... more info

All About Jazz — By PicoRock stars whose dad jammed with Django Reinhardt when said rock star was an infant, and dated Nico not long after after high school deserve my eternal respect and admiration, but as far as I know, only Jackson Browne falls into that category.... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... Hard Time Killing Floor Blues – Skip James The Right To Be Italian – Holly & The Italians http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com Arbu said... Brenda Russell - Love Life (1981 A&M album) Carol Hall - Beads and... more info

Guardian Music — (Flying Blue Whale)Chris Garrick is one of the world's leading orthodox jazz violinists. His range stretches from Stephane Grappelli's flirtatious urbanity, through a barn-dance robustness, to a classical fastidiousness with slow romantic music, and ... more info

Guardian Music — One of the rare bands to be loved beyond the jazz cognoscenti, this chamber ensemble gave the genre a respect previously afforded to classical musiciansWhen Illinois-born pianist John Lewis composed the haunting theme Django in the early 50s, he gave... more info

Guardian Music — (MGP Records)Nicolas Meier, the UK-based Swiss guitarist, made a powerful impression on British audiences five years ago with the mix of Pat Metheny-connected world fusion and Turkish folk music he introduced (with reeds virtuoso Gilad Atzmon) on the... more info

Guardian Music — The jazz guitar of Django Reinhardt remains a signature soundtrack of Paris. In the centenary of his birth, Gemma Ware goes in search of the cafes that still swing to his tunesWith its upbeat swing of guitars, violin and the occasional clarinet or sa... more info

Guardian Music — The folk-rock veteran and musical maverick will act as artistic director for this year's Meltdown festivalFolk guitarist Richard Thompson is to curate this year's Meltdown festival. Following in the footsteps of David Bowie, Patti Smith and Massive A... more info