While his playing reflects diverse influences, guitarist Biréli Lagrène clearly comes out of the gypsy tradition of Django Reinhardt, whose 100th birthday is being celebrated in 2010. Gypsy Trio ...
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 ...
Lagrene also commemorated his 40th birthday last year with the double-disc release of Djangology/To Bi Or Not To Bi, which documented the full scope of the gypsy guitarist's genius in two separate ...
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 ...