Richard Smith’s virtuoso finger-style guitar skill makes his six-string acoustic instrument sound like a miniature orchestra. Nonetheless, Smith plays well with others. A native of England, Smith ...

In the '70s Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) brought classical music to the foreground of the Woodstock generation releasing songs like "Roll Over Beethoven" and blending orchestral elements with rock.

El Dorado County Community Concert Association is kicking off the new year with the renowned Rhythm Future Quartet, the third ...

Gypsy jazz — that wonderfully infectious style of music played in smoky Parisian jazz clubs and swanky dance halls during the 1930s and ‘40s — is making a comeback. The man who is credited with ...

Django Reinhardt has achieved an almost godlike status among those who love jazz guitar. When he and violinist Stephane Grappelli formed the Quintet of the Hot Club of France in 1934, they created a ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, guitarist Evan Perri rested on a sectional sofa that consumed most of his bachelor pad in Grosse Pointe Park. Perri fiddled with the strings on his new acoustic guitar ...

Curiosity got the best of this reporter a week ago when I heard, “Anouman,” the group that was performing on the Green, was going to play Gypsy Jazz. Well known jazz genres that come to mind include ...

This is a gypsy combo of the Django Reinhardt persuasion, rather than being fully-crazed wedding party cacophony. In fact, reedman Ken Peplowski makes matters even more specialized by concentrating on ...

Robert Witmeyer has been a lifelong fan of Django Reinhardt, the Belgian-born guitarist and composer who is celebrated for raising “gypsy jazz” to a popular music form in the 1930s. This Saturday, ...

Gypsy jazz -- recalling the 1930s heyday ofguitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli -- is the specialty of the Hot Club of Davenport, which will play at 9 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at ...

I found Monti Eaton sitting on Fourth Avenue, singing away and playing on what appeared to be a mini-banjo, which I later found to be called a banjolele. He looked vaguely familiar to me, so I decided ...