PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Django 100: Centennial Tour Celebrates Legendar Guitarist

By Larry Taylor In honor of the 100th anniversary of the great gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt, the Django 100 countrywide tour gets underway next month at Washington's Kennedy Center. Leading the memorial quintet will be guitarist, Dorado Schmitt, himself a gypsy and designated as Reinhardt's heir apparent--the winner of Europe's Django award in 2000. His son, Samson Dorado, also a guitarist, will be in the group, along with Ludovic Beir, accordionist, and Pierre Blanchard, violinist...

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