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Pearl Django: Gypsy-Jazz Group Helps Distinctive Music Carry On

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Imagine being an American playing French-Gypsy jazz to 3,000 Django Reinhardt enthusiasts — in France.

“It was a little nerve-racking," said Michael Gray, a violinist with the jazz band Pearl Django. “Now I have sympathy for the average European blues band coming over here."

But the listeners at the 2002 Festival de Jazz de Django Reinhardt, near Paris, “were thrilled that we had taken the style and run with it," Gray said. “We got nothing but great feedback."

For the past 11 years, the Northwest band has been playing Gypsy music, American jazz standards and Parisian musette — boulevard music meant for dancing and listening. Pearl Django will perform Saturday at the Everett Performing Arts Center in a benefit concert for KSER-FM (90.7), Everett's community radio station.

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