Bireli Lagrene was born on September 4, 1966 in Saverne, Alsace, France. The son of Fiso Lagrene, a popular guitarist in pre-war France, Lagrene displayed a prodigious talent as a very young child.

Florin Niculescu, the violinist, emerges as the star of the Gipsy Project, Bireli Lagrene's homage to Django Reinhardt. It's only natural. For as much as Reinhardt was a source of inventiveness on the ...

Lakeside in Switzerland, at the Cully Jazz Festival, it's 6 o'clock on Sunday evening. We're together with hundreds of people under a huge tent for a gala concert by the phenomenal guitarist from ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “I really don’t mean to disappoint you,” Biréli Lagrène appeals bashfully, 30 minutes into his set. “Some of you ...

Virtuosic jazz playing isn’t exactly in short supply these days. Fast fingers, in fact, often seem to be more common than imaginative musical ideas. But Thursday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, speed and ...

Yes, both groups in the Gypsy Crossings concert have Gypsy ties; Bireli Lagrene was born into a Gypsy community in the Alsatian region of France and Taraf de Haidouks consists of 12 bona fide Gypsies ...

French jazz guitarist Bireli Lagrene will take the stage in the Turkish capital Ankara this Saturday, Jan. 21 to give art lovers an unforgettable evening. Speaking to Anadolu ahead of the concert at ...

The entire concert of Biréli Lagrène given at the Festival of Vienna 2002 On July 9 2002 the Jazz Festival in Vienna was a great night of gypsy jazz It was a soldout show with eight thousand people ...

Born September 4, 1966 in Saverne, France, Bireli Lagrene came under the influence of Django Reinhardt and impressed the world from age 13 as a prodigy who handled the guitar with a love for the swing ...

Since the 1940s jazz has tended to float, not stomp. With the bebop drummers' fluttering cymbal beats and their scattering of accents like seeds on a wind, the flow of jazz time became more fluid.

November 24, 2008 • Manouche Jazz, commonly known as "Gypsy Jazz," is a blend of traditional Roma music and swing jazz. Originating in Paris in the early 1930s, it was first popularized by guitarist ...