A Celebration of Swing Music: Gypsy Swing
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English - November 18, 2011 13:00 - 11 minutes - 1.33 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsCourses Education Arts Performing Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: A Celebration of Swing Music: Western Swing
Jazz is a purely American form of music. With one exception. In the 1930s, Hungarian guitarist Django Reinhardt created a unique form of jazz – Gypsy Swing – that mixed traditional Eastern European music with an American beat. In this episode, Gypsy Jazz violinist Tony Ballog introduces us to the music of Django Reinhardt and Gypsy Swing.