at the Django Reinhardt Festival in France

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Alexander Michael at the Django Reinhardt Festival in France Some seventy years after the death of guitar legend Django Reinhardt, Key West musician Alexander Michael attended a festival celebrating Reinhardt’s life and his famous jazz manouche style of music (aka gypsy jazz, gypsy swing). The music began with the Manouche clan of Romanis gypsy population […]

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Loves His Gypsy Jazz

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Alexander Michael – and his gypsy jazz Alexander Michael hails from North Minneapolis. His father, Greg, played guitar and started   teaching Alexander music at eight years old, around camp fires and in the kitchen. When Alexander was 20, he took a month long, 200 miles, confidence building sojourn along the Lake Superior Trail alone. He […]

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