Django Festival All-Stars
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Django Festival All-Stars is a group of hot swing musicians from Europe who visit U.S. for the New York's Django Reinhardt Festival and later lineup to tour U.S.
They play so called "gypsy jazz", style pioneered by French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. In 2014 group of top "Gypsy Jazz" musicians performed also at Newport Jazz Festival. Lineup was: Samson Schmitt on lead guitar, Ludovic Beier on accordion, Pierre Blanchard on violin, DouDou Cuillerier on rhythm guitar and Brian Torff on bass.
The piece they play in video is "Them There Eye", a jazz song written by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber and William Tracey, first published in 1930 that became famous performed by Billie Holiday in 1939.
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