Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels.

There is hardly a jazz guitarist in the business today who doesn't owe something to Django.

* The " Selmer-Maccaferri guitar " is usually played by those who follow the style of Django Reinhardt.

Selmer-Maccaferri guitars are usually played by those who follow the style of Django Reinhardt.

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

Gainey and Tom Savini as Big John and Ellis Brittle, two of the slave owners who separate Django and Broomhilda, Anthony LaPaglia and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Australian brothers, Jano and an unnamed character, respectively, who encounter Django while escorting slaves to a fight.

Lieber made a record with Django Reinhardt in the AFN Studios in Paris in the post Second World War era and started an event called " Jazz at Noon " every Friday in a New York restaurant playing with a nucleus of advertising men, doctors, lawyers, and business executives who had been or could have been jazz musicians.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

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.

The film tells the story, set in the 1930s, of a fictional jazz guitarist named Emmet Ray ( played by Sean Penn ) who regards himself as the second greatest guitarist in the world ( after jazz icon Django Reinhardt ) who falls in love with a mute woman ( Samantha Morton ).

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

He was a regular guest star and featured soloist on Rudi Blesh's This is Jazz broadcasts, as well as at Eddie Condon's Town Hall concerts and studied with Maury Deutsch, who could also count Django Reinhardt and Charlie Parker among his pupils.

Perhaps the most famous ( and influential ) Sinti musician is the guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, who fused traditional dance hall musettes with American jazz of the day ( 1930s and 40s ) and, along with Stéphane Grappelli and the other members of the Quintette du Hot Club de France, founded the style of music known as “ Gypsy Jazz ”.

The film's music is inspired by that of the 1920s, and includes characters reminiscent of Josephine Baker, Fred Astaire, Glenn Gould and a Django Reinhardt-like character who plays along to the dancing Triplettes as Charles Trenet conducts the band.

The player takes the role of Django, a vampire hunter, who uses a weapon called the " Gun Del Sol " ( Solar Gun ), that fires bolts of sunlight at enemies.

Beside the first three Spaghetti Westerns by Leone, a most influential film was Sergio Corbucci's Django starring Franco Nero.

Paul's jazz-guitar style was strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, whom he greatly admired.

He was influenced by rock artists including Jimi Hendrix and Lonnie Mack, along with jazz guitarists like Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, and George Benson.

Ray idolizes famed guitarist Django Reinhardt, and is said to have fainted in his presence and to have fled a nightclub performance with severe stage fright upon hearing a false rumor that Reinhardt was in the audience.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

The famous Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was born in Liberchies.

The 1971 single " Coz I Luv You " was inspired by the styles of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grapelli.

" Joe Pass, in a 1976 interview, stated that Lang was one of the three main guitars inovators, along with Wes Montgomery and Django.

Nero's first film role was a small part in La ragazza in prestito ( 1964 ), and he had his first lead role in Sergio Corbucci's Django ( 1966 ) a spaghetti western and one of his best known films.

In 1996, Siddig and his co-star Nana Visitor started dating ; their son, Django El Tahir El Siddig, was born on 16 September 1996, and the couple married on 14 June 1997.

Furthermore, he was influenced greatly by such saxophonists as John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Michael Brecker and Charlie Parker, whilst some of his favourite guitarists were Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Raney, Charlie Christian and Hank Marvin.

The Django Films studio was set up with the ambition to produce a number of films and establish itself in the film-making scene in both animation and live action but now is being dismantled.

In its life span Django was beset with production difficulties, first losing funding for what was to be its first animated feature, Barbacoa, failing to secure funding for what was labelled " A Scottish Simpsons " for the BBC then came the very public sacking of Chomet as Director from The Tale of Despereaux by Gary Ross.

The revival was marked by the appearance of a new generation of Black British musicians, including members of the influential groups Loose Tubes ( formed 1983 ): Django Bates, Iain Ballamy and Julian Argüelles and Jazz Warriors ( formed 1986 ): Courtney Pine, Gary Crosby, Julian Joseph, and later Soweto Kinch and Jason Yarde.

His father played jazz guitar and the young Bream was impressed by hearing the playing of Django Reinhardt.

In October 2011 it was announced that LaPaglia would join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film Django Unchained, in which he would portray an Australian character once again.

Quicksilver features with the Inhumans and Fantastic Four against the villain the Sphinx in a Fantastic Four annual, and the siblings ' origin is explored in the title Avengers when gypsy Django Maximoff kidnaps Pietro and Wanda and returns to Mount Wundagore in the country of Transia, where they were born.

In the 1930s, the Belgian gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt became one of the first important jazz musicians to be born in Europe, and one of the most important jazz guitarists of all time.

* Django Bates ( born 1960 ), British musician and composer

* Francisco " Django " Bustamante ( born 1963 ), Filipino billiards player

* Thomas Harry Django ( born 1981 )

Stochelo Rosenberg ( born 19 February 1968 in Helmond, Netherlands ) is a Sinti-Gypsy jazz guitarist who plays in the Jazz manouche style of Django Reinhardt and leads the Rosenberg Trio.

Francisco Bustamante ( born December 29, 1963, Philippines ) is a Filipino professional pocket billiards ( pool ) player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed " Django ", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called " Bustie ", especially in the United States.

Versions have been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke with The Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Recorded in New York City on February 1, 1947 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalogue number 20-2016B and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number BD 5968 ), Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Jan Garber, Fumio Nanri, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Mel Tormé, Connie Francis, Jean Sablon, Keely Smith, Terumasa Hino, Harry Connick Jr, Ella Fitzgerald, Olavi Virta, The Peanuts, Django Reinhardt, Barry Manilow, John Coltrane, Earl Grant, Willie Nelson, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, George Benson, Mina, Ken Hirai, Los Hombres Calientes and many others.

Two other songs, " Jean De Fleur " and " Django ," were re-recorded in shorter renditions to compensate for the length of the title track ; the extended renditions of both songs can be heard on the 1998 RVG remaster of the album.

* Django Reinhardt ( Paviot 1959 )

Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes, Les Paul, and ( Mother ) Maybelle Carter brought him admirers within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally.

On being asked to name the ten most influential guitarists of the 20th century, he named Django Reinhardt to the first position, and also placed himself on the list.

* The Selmer-Maccaferri guitar is strongly associated with Django Reinhardt and gypsy swing.

Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt are generally held to have initiated the use of the guitar to play melodies and improvisations over other instruments, the former using an early form of amplification, the latter playing forcefully on an acoustic guitar.

* Django Reinhardt

* January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist ( d. 1953 )

* The Quintette du Hot Club de France is established and produced two of the most famous Jazz instrumental icons Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt.

* Django Reinhardt with the Quintette of the Hot Club of France

* Django Reinhardt performed this song, and it can be found on the album Keep Cool: Guitar Solos ( 1950 – 1953 ).

Other musical influences he later acknowledged included gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Belgian jazz musician Django Reinhardt, American concert singer Paul Robeson, and Black comedian Bert Williams.

Early recorded examples of free-form improvisation include solo guitar works by the French guitarist Django Reinhardt and a pair of 1949 recordings for Capitol by a group led by Lennie Tristano, " Intuition " and " Digression ".

This five-day festival celebrates the gypsy jazz style of Django Reinhardt, and featues workshops, concerts, and impromptu jam sessions around town.

Harmonicist Toots Thielemans, guitarist Philip Catherine and Django Reinhardt are probably the best known Belgian jazz musicians.

His solo on Body and Soul is a fine demonstration both of his admiration for and emulation of the playing of Django Reinhardt, as well as his development of some very original lines.

His early fame came playing with the Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt, which disbanded in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.