Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz

Movement · 1934 → · Paris · Swing and big bands

Quintette du Hot Club de France (1934): Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, a string ensemble without drums. A European branch that does not go through the big band.

Where it comes from

• Swing, big bands
• Jazz in France (interwar years)

What it gave rise to or influenced

• French jazz

Artists

• Django Reinhardt (1910–1953, guitar)
• Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997, violin, piano)
• Biréli Lagrène (1966, guitar)
• Stochelo Rosenberg (1968, guitar)
• Didier Lockwood (1956–2018, violin, electric violin)
• Cyrille Aimée (vocals)
• Henri Crolla (1920–1960, guitar, composition)

Tracks to start with

• Minor Swing — Quintette du Hot Club de France (1937)
• Nuages — Django Reinhardt (1940)
• Belleville — Biréli Lagrène (2001)
• To Django — Richard Galliano (1996)
• It's a Good Day — Cyrille Aimée (2014)
• Limelight — Stochelo Rosenberg & Mozes Rosenberg (2026)
• Conversation — L. Subramaniam & Stéphane Grappelli (1984)
• Nuages (Henri Crolla) — Henri Crolla (1958)

Sources

• EN: Quintette du Hot Club de France

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