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Gypsy jazz

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Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music generally accepted to have been started by the gypsy guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in and around Paris in the 1930s. [1]

203 relations: Aachen, Accompaniment, Accordion, Alternate picking, Andreas Öberg, Angelo Debarre, Appoggiatura, Arpeggio, Augsburg, Émile Savitry, Babik Reinhardt, Bal-musette, Banat, Band-in-a-Box, Banjo, Baro Ferret, Barre chord, Beat (music), Bebop, Belgium, Bellingen, New South Wales, Berklee College of Music, Biel Ballester, Biréli Lagrène, Birdland (New York jazz club), Bluegrass music, Bootleg recording, Boulou Ferré, Brisbane, Bucharest, Burgthann, Bury St Edmunds, Café-chantant, Chalga, Charles Mingus, Chromatic scale, Cimbalom, Clarinet, Classical music, Cloughjordan, Cloughtoberfest, Connie Evingson, County Tipperary, Cyrille Aimée, Damian Drăghici, Dan Hicks (singer), Dario Pinelli, Dark Eyes (song), Diminished seventh chord, Dinah (song), ..., Dixieland, Diz Disley, Django à Liberchies, Django Reinhardt, Dominant seventh chord, Dorado Schmitt, Dorian mode, Double bass, Double stop, Drum, Drum kit, Duke Ellington, Eastern Europe, Eclecticism in music, Economy picking, Eddie Lang, Electrecord, Electric guitar, Europe, Fapy Lafertin, Festival Django Reinhardt, Flamenco, Florin Niculescu, Frank Vignola, George Cole (musician), Ghost note, Glissando, Glossary of musical terminology, Grace note, Guitar, Guitar picking, Gypsophilia, Hank Marvin, Harmonic, Hildesheim, Hobart, Hot Club de Norvège, Ian Cruickshank, Ian Date, Jason Anick, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jazz standard, Jimmy Rosenberg, Joe Venuti, John Etheridge, John Jorgenson, John Jorgenson Quintet, Jon Larsen, Joscho Stephan, Joseph Reinhardt, Key (music), Koblenz, Kobza, Langley, Washington, Lăutari, Le QuecumBar, Lead instrument, Liberchies, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Louis Armstrong, Louis Vola, Lousson Reinhardt, Maastricht, Major chord, Major seventh chord, Mandolin, Manele, Martin Taylor (guitarist), Matelo Ferret, Menai Bridge, Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony (Romania), Minnesota, Minor chord, Minor scale, Minor Swing (composition), Mondine Garcia, Monsieur Periné, Mordent, Moseley, Netherlands, Ninth chord, Northampton, Massachusetts, Nouméa, Nuages, Octatonic scale, Octave, Ornament (music), Paris, Paulus Schäfer, Pearl Django, Perth, Philip Catherine, PizzaExpress Jazz Club, Pizzicato, Political censorship, Power Tab Editor, President of Romania, Quintette du Hot Club de France, Ragtime, Raphaël Faÿs, René Didi Duprat, Reynold Philipsek, Rhythm guitar, Rhythm section, Romane, Romani people, Romani people in France, Romanian language, Romanian Peasant Museum, Romanian Revolution, Rosenberg Trio, Royal Albert Hall, Samois-sur-Seine, Sarane Ferret, Saxophone, Sârbă, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Selmer guitar, Semitone, Sinti, Sixth chord, Smith College, Socialist Republic of Romania, Software, Sousaphone, South Africa, Staccato, Stéphane Grappelli, Stephane Wrembel, Stochelo Rosenberg, String bending, Strum, Swing 42, Swing music, Synthesizer, Tárogató, Tchavolo Schmitt, Tempo rubato, Texture (music), The Lost Fingers, The Recording Academy, Tim Kliphuis, Toulon, Tremolo, Trill (music), Twist (dance), Valletta, Vibrato, Vincent Peirani, Violin, Wales, Wawau Adler. Expand index (153 more) »

Aachen

Aachen or Bad Aachen, French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle, is a spa and border city.

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Alternate picking

Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique that employs alternating downward and upward strokes in a continuous fashion.

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Andreas Öberg

Andreas Öberg (born 6 August 1978) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, and music producer.

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Angelo Debarre

Angelo Debarre ((born on August 19, 1962) is a French Romani gypsy jazz guitarist.

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Appoggiatura

An appoggiatura (Vorschlag, Vorhalt; Port de voix) is a musical ornament that consists of an added non-chord note in a melody that is resolved to the regular note of the chord.

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Arpeggio

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.

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Augsburg

Augsburg (Augschburg) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Émile Savitry

Émile Savitry (1903-1967) was a French photographer and painter.

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Babik Reinhardt

Babik Reinhardt (8 June 1944 – 13 November 2001) was a guitarist and the younger son of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt by Django's second wife, Naguine.

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Bal-musette

Bal-musette is a style of French music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s.

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Banat

The Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe that is currently divided among three countries: the eastern part lies in western Romania (the counties of Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad south of the Körös/Criș river, and the western part of Mehedinți); the western part in northeastern Serbia (mostly included in Vojvodina, except a part included in the Belgrade Region); and a small northern part lies within southeastern Hungary (Csongrád county).

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Band-in-a-Box

Band-in-a-Box is a MIDI music arranger software package for Windows and macOS produced by PG Music Incorporated.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Baro Ferret

Pierre Joseph "Baro" Ferret (1908–1976) was a Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer.

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Barre chord

In music, a barre chord (also known as bar chord or rarely barr chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument, that the musician plays by using one or more fingers to press down multiple strings across a single fret of the fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings).

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bellingen, New South Wales

Bellingen is a small town on Waterfall Way on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.

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Biel Ballester

Biel Ballester (born 1974 in Mallorca, Spain) is a guitarist from Mallorca, Spain.

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Biréli Lagrène

Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966) is a French jazz guitarist.

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Birdland (New York jazz club)

Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Bootleg recording

A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority.

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Boulou Ferré

Boulou Ferré (born Jean-Jacques Ferret, 24 April 1951) is a French virtuoso jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and improviser.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre.

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Burgthann

Burgthann is a municipality in the district Nürnberger Land, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds is a historic market town and civil parish in the in St Edmundsbury district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Café-chantant

Café chantant (French: lit. "singing café"), café-concert or caf’conc, is a type of musical establishment associated with the belle époque in France.

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Chalga

Chalga (often referred to as pop-folk, short for "popular folk") is a Bulgarian music genre.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Chromatic scale

The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.

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Cimbalom

The cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box with metal strings stretched across its top.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cloughjordan

Cloughjordan, officially Cloghjordan, is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland.

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Cloughtoberfest

Cloughtoberfest was a celebration of Gypsy Jazz and Irish craft brewing.

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Connie Evingson

Connie Evingson (born in Hibbing, Minnesota) is an American singer who performs jazz and pop music.

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County Tipperary

County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland.

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Cyrille Aimée

Cyrille Aimée (born August 10, 1984) is a French jazz singer.

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Damian Drăghici

Damian Drăghici (born 31 March 1970, Bucharest) is a Romanian musician and politician of Romani origin.

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Dan Hicks (singer)

Daniel Ivan Hicks (December 9, 1941 – February 6, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter known for an idiosyncratic style that combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music.

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Dario Pinelli

Dario Pinelli (born March 27, 1982 in Manduria, Italy), is an Italian jazz manouche guitarist.

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Dark Eyes (song)

"Dark Eyes" (translit; transl. "Black Eyes") is probably the most famous Russian romance song.

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Diminished seventh chord

The diminished seventh chord is commonly used in the harmony of both Western classical music and also in jazz and popular music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Dinah (song)

"Dinah" is a popular song published in 1925 and introduced by Ethel Waters at the Plantation Club on Broadway.

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Dixieland

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

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Diz Disley

William Charles "Diz" Disley (27 May 1931 – 22 March 2010) was an Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist, entertainer, and graphic designer.

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Django à Liberchies

Django @ Liberchies is a gypsy jazz festival, taking place every May since 2003 in Liberchies (Pont-à-Celles, Belgium), in honour of Django Reinhardt.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

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Dominant seventh chord

In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a chord composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh.

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Dorado Schmitt

Dorado Schmitt (born May 29, 1957) is a French guitarist and violinist in Gypsy jazz.

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Dorian mode

Dorian mode or Doric mode can refer to three very different but interrelated subjects: one of the Ancient Greek harmoniai (characteristic melodic behaviour, or the scale structure associated with it), one of the medieval musical modes, or, most commonly, one of the modern modal diatonic scales, corresponding to the white notes from D to D, or any transposition of this.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Double stop

In music, a double stop refers to the technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a bowed stringed instrument such as a violin, a viola, a cello, or a double bass.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

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Eclecticism in music

In music, eclecticism is the conscious use of styles alien to the composer's own nature, or from a bygone era.

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Economy picking

Economy picking is a guitar picking technique designed to maximize picking efficiency by combining alternate picking and sweep picking.

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Eddie Lang

Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) is known as the father of jazz guitar.

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Electrecord

Electrecord is a Romanian record label founded in 1932.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Fapy Lafertin

Fapy Lafertin (born Kortrijk, Belgium, 1950) is a jazz guitarist of Romani ethnicity, one of the foremost contemporary exponents of the Belgian-Dutch style of Gypsy jazz.

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Festival Django Reinhardt

The Festival Django Reinhardt is a Gypsy jazz music festival held during the last week of June at Samois-sur-Seine, France.

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Flamenco

Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.

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Florin Niculescu

Florin Niculescu (b. February 8, 1967 in Bucharest) is a Romanian violinist of Romani (Gypsy) ethnicity.

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Frank Vignola

Frank Vignola (born December 30, 1965 in Long Island, New York) is an American jazz guitarist.

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George Cole (musician)

George Cole (born October 10, 1960) is an American music producer, composer, lyricist, vocalist, session musician, and guitarist.

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Ghost note

In music, a ghost note is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played.

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Glissando

In music, a glissando (plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another.

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Glossary of musical terminology

This is a list of musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.

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Grace note

A grace note is a kind of music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornaments.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitar picking

Guitar picking is a group of hand and finger techniques a guitarist uses to set guitar strings in motion to produce audible notes.

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Gypsophilia

Gypsophilia is a Canadian jazz band from Nova Scotia.

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Hank Marvin

Hank Brian Marvin (born Brian Robson Rankin, 28 October 1941) is an English multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter.

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Harmonic

A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.

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Hildesheim

Hildesheim (Eastphalian: Hilmessen) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 103,804 inhabitants.

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Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Hot Club de Norvège

Hot Club de Norvège is a string jazz quartet from Norway, established in 1979, by guitarist Jon Larsen with childhood friends Per Frydenlund and Svein Aarbostad.

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Ian Cruickshank

Ian Cruickshank (born 1947 approx.) was an English electric and acoustic guitarist most associated with the blues-rock and gypsy jazz genres, also well known in the U.K. as an educator, author and columnist, record producer and record label owner, festival organiser and promoter of artists in the gypsy jazz world.

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Ian Date

Ian Date (born 1960 approx.) is an Australian acoustic and electric guitarist most associated with the Gypsy jazz and bebop genres.

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Jason Anick

Jason Anick (born October 3, 1985, Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American jazz violinist, mandolin player and composer.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jimmy Rosenberg

Joseph "Jimmy" Rosenberg (born 10 April 1980, Helmond) is a Dutch Sinto-Romani guitarist known for his virtuoso playing of gypsy jazz.

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Joe Venuti

Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (possibly September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.

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John Etheridge

John Michael Glyn Etheridge (born 12 January 1948 in Lambeth, South London) is an English jazz fusion guitarist known for his eclecticism and broad range of associations in jazz, classical, and contemporary music.

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John Jorgenson

John Richard Jorgenson (born July 6, 1956) is an American musician.

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John Jorgenson Quintet

The John Jorgenson Quintet is an American gypsy jazz band featuring guitarist John Jorgenson, a pioneer of the American gypsy jazz movement.

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Jon Larsen

Jon Larsen (born 7 January 1959) is a gypsy jazz guitarist, record producer, surrealist painter, and scientific researcher.

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Joscho Stephan

Joscho Stephan (born 1979 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) is a German Jazz guitarist who plays mainly modern Gypsy jazz, much influenced by Django Reinhardt.

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Joseph Reinhardt

Joseph "Nin-Nin" Reinhardt (1912-1982) was the younger brother of the famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and played rhythm guitar on most of Django's pre-war recordings, especially those with the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France between 1934 and 1939.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.

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Koblenz

Koblenz (Coblence), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine where it is joined by the Moselle.

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Kobza

The kobza (кобза) (also called bandurka (кобза) is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora. The term kobza however, has also been applied to a number of other Eastern European instruments distinct from the Ukrainian kobza.

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Langley, Washington

Langley is a city in Island County, Washington, United States which is located on the south end of Whidbey Island, overlooking the Saratoga Passage.

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Lăutari

The Romanian word Lăutar denotes a class of traditional musicians.

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Le QuecumBar

Le QuecumBar is a music venue and brasserie in Battersea, London, England dedicated to Gypsy Swing and the music of Django Reinhardt.

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Lead instrument

The term lead instrument carries a variety of connotations.

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Liberchies

Liberchies is a village in the municipality of Pont-à-Celles, in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Louis Vola

Louis Vola (La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, 6 July 1902 – 15 August 1990, Paris), was a French double-bassist known for his work with the Quintette du Hot Club de France.

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Lousson Reinhardt

Henri Baumgartner (1929–1992), also known as Lousson Reinhardt, was a French gypsy jazz guitarist and the first son of Django Reinhardt, by his first wife, Florine "Bella" Mayer.

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Maastricht

Maastricht (Limburgish: Mestreech; French: Maestricht; Spanish: Mastrique) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands.

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Major chord

In music theory, a major chord is a chord that has a root note, a major third above this root, and a perfect fifth above this root note.

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Major seventh chord

In music, a major seventh chord is a seventh chord where the "third" note is a major third above the root, and the "seventh" note is a major seventh above the root (a fifth above the third note).

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Manele

Manele (from Romanian, fem. sg. manea; pl. manele, the plural form being more common) is a music style from Romania.

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Martin Taylor (guitarist)

Martin Taylor, MBE (born 20 October 1956) is a British jazz guitarist who has performed in groups, guitar ensembles and as an accompanist.

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Matelo Ferret

Jean Pierre "Matelo" Ferret (1918–1989) (also spelled Matelot, Matlo and Matlow, surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer.

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Menai Bridge

Menai Bridge (Porthaethwy; usually referred to colloquially as Y Borth) is a small town and community on the Isle of Anglesey in north-west Wales.

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Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony (Romania)

The Ministry of Culture and National Identity of Romania (Ministerul Culturii și Identității Naționale) is one of the ministries of the Government of Romania.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Minor chord

In music theory, a minor chord is a chord having a root, a minor third, and a perfect fifth.

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Minor Swing (composition)

"Minor Swing" is a popular Gypsy jazz tune composed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli.

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Mondine Garcia

Mondine Garcia (1936 – December 29, 2010)Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz - Michael Dregni, Alain Antonietto, Anne Legrand was a French, Parisian guitarist who specialized in playing traditional French gypsy jazz.

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Monsieur Periné

Monsieur Periné is a Bogotá-based musical ensemble from Colombia with an Afro-Colombian sound that mixes Latin and European flavors.

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Mordent

In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below.

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Moseley

Moseley is a suburb of south Birmingham, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the city centre.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Ninth chord

In music theory, a ninth chord is a chord that encompasses the interval of a ninth when arranged in close position with the root in the bass.

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Northampton, Massachusetts

The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Nouméa

Nouméa is the capital and largest city of the French special collectivity of New Caledonia.

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Nuages

"Nuages" is one of the best-known compositions by Django Reinhardt.

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Octatonic scale

An octatonic scale is any eight-note musical scale.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.

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Ornament (music)

In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paulus Schäfer

Paulus Schäfer (born 31 March 1978, Gerwen, Nuenen) is a guitarist, composer and arranger who is considered to be one of the most talented gypsy jazz or "jazz manouche" guitar players from the Netherlands.

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Pearl Django

Pearl Django is a jazz group established in 1994 in Tacoma, Washington by guitarists Neil Andersson and Dudley Hill, and bassist David "Pope" Firman.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Philip Catherine

Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.

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PizzaExpress Jazz Club

PizzaExpress Jazz Club is a jazz club in London, England.

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Pizzicato

Pizzicato (pizzicato, translated as pinched, and sometimes roughly as plucked) is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.

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Political censorship

Political censorship exists when a government attempts to conceal, fake, distort, or falsify information that its citizens receive by suppressing or crowding out political news that the public might receive through news outlets.

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Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows.

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President of Romania

The President of Romania is the head of state of Romania.

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Quintette du Hot Club de France

The Quintette du Hot Club de France, often abbreviated to "QdHCdF" or just "QHCF", (“The Quintet of the Hot Club of France”) was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grappelli, and active in one form or another until 1948.

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Ragtime

Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.

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Raphaël Faÿs

Raphaël Faÿs is a French jazz, gypsy jazz and classical guitarist and composer born in Paris on 10 December 1959.

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René Didi Duprat

René Didi Duprat (12 October 1926 – 8 August 1996) was a French jazz manouche guitarist.

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Reynold Philipsek

Reynold David Philipsek (born December 8, 1952) is an American musician, jazz guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rhythm section

A rhythm section (also called a backup band) is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.

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Romane

Patrick Leguidecoq, known professionally as Romane, is a guitarist born in Paris France in 1959 who specializes in gypsy jazz.

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Romani people

The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.

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Romani people in France

Romani people in France, generally known in spoken French as "gitans", "tsiganes" or "manouches", are an ethnic group which originated in Northern India.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; autonym: limba română, "the Romanian language", or românește, lit. "in Romanian") is an East Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language.

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Romanian Peasant Museum

The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (Muzeul Național al Ţăranului Român) is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, with a collection of textiles (especially costumes), icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life.

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Romanian Revolution

The Romanian Revolution (Revoluția Română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania in December 1989 and part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries.

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Rosenberg Trio

The Rosenberg Trio is a Dutch jazz band consisting of lead guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, rhythm guitarist Nous'che Rosenberg and bassist Nonnie Rosenberg.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Samois-sur-Seine

Samois-sur-Seine is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Sarane Ferret

Étienne "Sarane" Ferret (1912–1970) (surname also later spelled Ferré on occasion) was a French musette and gypsy jazz guitarist and composer, a contemporary and musical associate of Django Reinhardt, and the brother of noted Gitan (gypsy) guitar players Baro and Matelo Ferret.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Sârbă

A sârba or sîrba is a Romanian and Csángó dance normally played in or time.

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Schnuckenack Reinhardt

Franz "Schnuckenack" Reinhardt (17 February 1921 – 15 April 2006) was a gypsy jazz musician (violinist), composer and interpreter.

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Selmer guitar

The Selmer guitar—often called a Selmer-Maccaferri or just Maccaferri by English speakers, as early British advertising stressed the designer rather than manufacturer—is an unusual acoustic guitar best known as the favored instrument of Django Reinhardt.

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Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.

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Sinti

The Sinti (also Sinta or Sinte; masc. sing. Sinto; fem. sing. Sintesa) are a Romani people of Central Europe.

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Sixth chord

The term sixth chord refers to two different kinds of chord, the first in classical music and the second in modern popular music.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college with coed graduate and certificate programs in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Socialist Republic of Romania

The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) refers to Romania under Marxist-Leninist one-party Communist rule that existed officially from 1947 to 1989.

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Software

Computer software, or simply software, is a generic term that refers to a collection of data or computer instructions that tell the computer how to work, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built, that actually performs the work.

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Sousaphone

The sousaphone is a brass instrument in the same family as the more widely known tuba.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Staccato

Staccato (Italian for "detached") is a form of musical articulation.

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Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli (26 January 1908 – 1 December 1997) was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934.

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Stephane Wrembel

Stéphane Wrembel is a French born jazz guitarist currently residing in New Jersey.

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Stochelo Rosenberg

Stochelo Rosenberg (born 19 February 1968 in Helmond, Netherlands) is a Gypsy jazz guitarist who leads the Rosenberg Trio.

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String bending

String bending is a guitar technique where fretted strings are displaced by application of a force by the fretting fingers in a direction perpendicular to their vibrating length.

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Strum

In music, strumming is a way of playing a stringed instrument such as a guitar, ukulele, or mandolin.

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Swing 42

Swing 42 is a song written and performed by the Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tárogató

The tárogató (töröksíp, Turkish pipe; plural tárogatók or, anglicized, tárogatós; taragot or torogoata) refers to two different woodwind instruments commonly used in both Hungarian and Romanian folk music.

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Tchavolo Schmitt

Tchavolo Schmitt (born 1954 in Paris) is a gypsy jazz guitarist.

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Tempo rubato

Tempo rubato ("free in the presentation", Italian for "stolen time") is a musical term referring to expressive and rhythmic freedom by a slight speeding up and then slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist or the conductor.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition, thus determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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The Lost Fingers

The Lost Fingers are a Canadian gypsy jazz music group formed in Quebec City in 2006 by Alex Morissette (backing vocals, double bass), Byron "Maiden" Mikaloff (Vocals, guitar) and Christian Roberge (Vocals, guitar).

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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Tim Kliphuis

Tim Kliphuis (born 30 September 1974 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a Dutch violinist renowned for mixing gypsy jazz with classical and folk music.

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Toulon

Toulon (Provençal: Tolon (classical norm), Touloun (Mistralian norm)) is a city in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Trill (music)

The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the 19th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trill.

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Twist (dance)

The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music.

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Valletta

Valletta is the capital city of Malta, colloquially known as "Il-Belt" (lit. "The City") in Maltese.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Vincent Peirani

Vincent Peirani (born 24 April 1980) is an award-winning French jazz accordionist, vocalist and composer who has played internationally, collaborating with Denis Colin, François Jeanneau, Youn Sun Nah, Émile Parisien, Michel Portal, Louis Sclavis, and Michael Wollny, among others.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wawau Adler

Josef Wawau Adler (born 25 January 1967 in Karlsruhe) is a German gypsy jazz guitarist.

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References

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