Jazz Articles about Ismael Reinhardt

Ismael Reinhardt: Gypsy Swing

by William Grim
August 14, 2005

Gypsy Swing is a thoroughly delightful album that features the violin and guitar virtuosity of Ismael Reinhardt, a relative of the legendary Django Reinhardt. Building on the legacy of Django and Stephane Grappelli's Le Quintette du Hot Club de France, Ismael Reinhardt takes the basic structure of gypsy jazz (or jazz manouche) and embellishes it with a bop harmonic vocabulary.

The chestnuts of gypsy jazz are here--"Autumn Leaves," “It Had to Be You," and “Sweet Georgia Brown," among ...