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Concerts
Saturday September 4, 2010
Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) would be a 100 yeras-old this year. He is the unavoidable figure of European jazz, creating a genre with his style. Django, the Belgian sinti gypsy founded Quintette du Hot Club de France band with Stéphane Grappelli violinist in 1934, with which he started manouche vagy gypsy swing style played mainly by Belgian, Dutch and French gypsies. The band got succesful and world famous, and Django’s guitar playing got determining for guitarists. In his last home place, Samois-sur-Seine (France) his followers are saluting him with a yearly festival. In the last few years djangoreinhardt.lap.hu and jazzmanouche.hu was created by his Hungarian followers and fans and many of them have visited the festival in France too. The anniversary is the best occassion for organizing the I. Home Django Reinhardt Festival.
Hot Club of Hungary
Hot Club of Hungary band was formed in 2003 to present in the style of „manouche jazz” (at the time not known in Hungary) the standards of the 1930s. The speciality of the band is their elegant, period dresses and the instruments as well as the danceable rhythms and the unique instrumentation. Hot Club of Hungary have had more than 500 concerts in Italian, German, Austrian, French and Hungarian festivals, and at swing dance events.
Django-drom
The band was formed in Summer of 2007 as a wedding surprise and learnt to play three Django Reinhardt piece. They stayed together and while expanding thier repertoire decided about the name: Django-drom. They have joined to Hungary’s gypsy swing line up by now. The sculpture, art historian and historian trio’s unique view of the genre can be realized in their christmas music videos (Django-bells, Why Christmas, Stihl Nacht. In recent times the French David Tavani is playing with them a lot.
Viktor Jakab formation: Made in Swing
The band started playing together because of an accidental jamming. The two guitarist (Attila Sidoo and Viktor Jakab) is known from bands such as Besh o drom and Swing Manouche Projekt. Co-operating with the young singer, Janka Mezei, in 2010 they founded Made in Swing formation, which is, at concerts, completed with guest musicians. Their music is based on Django Reinhardt’s tradition in a vocalist approach with lots of manouche swing.
Frankie Látó – Djangologgy Project
The band’s genre can be described as the 1920s and 30s gypsy-swing (Django Reinhardt-Stéphane Grappelli’s „Hot Club d’France”) and French swing-jazz. The front man of the band is Látó Frankie learnt this style in Paris from Didier Lockwood, who was a student of Stéphane Grappalli.
