ARTSEDGE: The Kitchen Sink

A Celebration of Swing Music: Gypsy Swing


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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.
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ARTSEDGE: The Kitchen SinkBy ARTSEDGE: The Kennedy Center's Arts Education Network