Gypsy

The new self-titled CD, Gypsy Mania “Hot Club” Swing Jazz (2009), offers spontaneous, vivid performances by some of Minnesota’s most stellar jazz soloists in the Django Reinhardt tradition and includes originals by guitarist Reynold Philipsek and bandleader-guitarist Glen Helgeson. Playing most of the leads is Gary Schulte, among the vanguard of jazz violinists, who delivers exceptional, virtuosic solos throughout the CD…

Gypsy music from central Europe is collected in one of the most upbeat and happy putumayo albums. The "traveling people", or Roma, have one of the most colorful and complex musical cultures of the planet. Travel with Gypsy Caravan through various European countries and enjoy great Romani music in its many versatile forms like the klezmer style of Romanyi Rota, the more folkish quality of Ando Drom, the flamenco of both Thierry Robin and Miguel Angel Cortés, or the french jazzy guitar of Coco Briaval's tribute to Django Reinhardt. Another putumayo's "chef d' oeuvre".

Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz", even in English language sources. The term is now commonly used for this style of music. Django was foremost among a group of Romani guitarists working in and around Paris in the 1930s through the 1950s, a group which also included the brothers Baro, Sarane, and Matelo Ferret and Reinhardt's brother Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt.

Imagine a young lad in love that is what the piece is about! This is how Dvorák himself characterised The Cypresses, a work he composed at the age of twenty-three when he fell for the young actress Josefina ermáková (who was later to become his sister-in-law). Regardless of the fact that it is a juvenile and in many ways imperfect composition, Dvorák kept returning to it, exploiting its motives as material for his later opuses.

Gypsy music has a certain fascination, a mystery of far-away places, a kind of longing, a sadness but often such exuberant and fiery enthusiasm as to make the listeners hearts pound and feet tap. Gypsy musicians, many having learned their instruments from an early childhood, usually are virtuoso players of their instruments and are able to express and project a rainbow of emotions with their guitars, accordions, violins, and other instruments. The term gypsy music refers strictly to the gypsies own folk music, but in its broadest sense has become a general term for music performed and cultivated by gypsies. The gypsies were/are an itinerant people believed to have originated from northern India.