Jazz Articles about Jon Larsen

Hot Club De Norvege: Django Music

by Warren Allen
January 11, 2009

Gypsy jazz is hip again, with Hot Clubs springing up from Detroit to Cowtown. So in a world full of Django Reinhardt idolizers, how does Oslo's Hot Club de Norvege stack up? Suffice it to say that Svein Aarbostad (bass), Jon Larsen (guitar) and Per Frydenlund (guitar)--who have been friends since childhood--have been working on this music for 30 years now, and they know how to make their strings swing. Django Music also features the impressive Finn ...