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Community Concert Series: Jane's Jazz Addiction "What is Gypsy Jazz?"

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 In partnership with Kentuckiana Musicians for the Community and the Music Performance Trust Fund.

The history and evolution of this particular genre of swing jazz, including an explanation of the beginnings of the style in pre-World War II Paris through the collaboration between Belgian gypsy guitarist Django Rhinehardt and the self-taught Italian violinist Stephane Grappelli, and how Gypsy and European idioms coalesce with American jazz.