FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Django Reinhardta€(TM)S Gypsy Rhythms Live On

The Edinburgh Jazz Festival celebrates the guitarist a century after his birth. If there's a gig at any jazz festival which is guaranteed to attract and delight punters who ordinarily wouldn't touch jazz with a five-foot pole, it's the one with the Django Reinhardt-inspired band. Thanks to the fact that, over the last 25 years, the genius gypsy jazz guitarist's extremely accessible style of music has been heard on everything from Renault Clio adverts to movie soundtracks (Belleville Rendez-Vou...

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