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 ...

There is nothing surprising on Gypsy Project-just a lot of dazzling, rhythmically surging fretboard fireworks in the grand Gypsy tradition-and I expected nothing less from Lagrene, perhaps 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 ...

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 ...

Once known as “the infant Django” to European jazz audiences, Bireli Lagrene made his mark at the age of 13 as a virtual reincarnation of the great Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. As Lagrene matured ...

Like his hero and primary influence Django Reinhardt, Biréli Lagrène’s manouche guitar work is accomplished, confounding, and exhilarating. This record, the third in a series of mostly acoustic ...

Lagréne would have made my list of the best recordings issued last year, if I’d had time to compile one: probably the live set with saxophone, rhythm guitar, and bass, rather than the also exceptional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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.