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July 22, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot Lounge, July 17  The acoustic guitar’s very familiarity makes hearing the parameters of what is possible on it suddenly redefined all the more startling. That Dutchman Stochelo Rosenberg has taken Django Reinhardt’s legacy to an almost absurd level of virtuosity was a given. Less expected was that his young…

July 21, 2014 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Foundry 616, July 16  Film played a major role in liberating music from the shackles of genre, thanks to pioneering scores by the likes of Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini and Krzysztof Komeda. Otherwise we may never have enjoyed the breadth of work from such composers as New York’s…

July 17, 2014 / Features - Archive

In the best Gypsy fashion Stochelo Rosenberg is in his caravan when we speak on the telephone. The caravan is in the little French town of Samois-sur-Seine, which, being where the great Gypsy (or Roma) jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt died, holds an annual festival in his honour. Rosenberg is there…