Quintette

This intersection of French popular music and American jazz was most famously associated with the "Manouche jazz" of Django Reinhardt who actually was born in a Gypsy caravan encampment in Belgium and his Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s.

Marty Lipp: Restoring the Myth of French Romanticism Through Music Marty Lipp 2011

Reinhardt later led the celebrated Quintette du Hot Club de France with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, toured the US in 1947 with Duke Ellington, and is regarded as Europe's first jazz improvising genius.

Django reinhardt's caravan catches fire 2011

This intersection of French popular music and American jazz was most famously associated with the "Manouche jazz" of Django Reinhardt who actually was born in a Gypsy caravan encampment in Belgium and his Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s.

Marty Lipp: Restoring the Myth of French Romanticism Through Music Marty Lipp 2011

Getty Images Raymond Scott records his famous Quintette in an undated photo.

Sonic Experiments And a Country Tonic Andy Battaglia 2011

Like Cole Porter's "It's All Right With Me," heard slightly later, it was precisely the kind of American standard that Django would have played with his famous Quintette, although he never actually did.

Ringing in the American Revolution Will Friedwald 2011

Reinhardt later led the celebrated Quintette du Hot Club de France with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, toured the US in 1947 with Duke Ellington, and is regarded as Europe's first jazz improvising genius.

Django reinhardt's caravan catches fire 2011

This intersection of French popular music and American jazz was most famously associated with the "Manouche jazz" of Django Reinhardt who actually was born in a Gypsy caravan encampment in Belgium and his Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s.

Marty Lipp: Restoring the Myth of French Romanticism Through Music Marty Lipp 2011

Reinhardt later led the celebrated Quintette du Hot Club de France with violinist Stéphane Grappelli, toured the US in 1947 with Duke Ellington, and is regarded as Europe's first jazz improvising genius.

Django reinhardt's caravan catches fire 2011

More importantly, another film made Reinhardt's existence concrete: No genuine sound footage of Reinhardt in action was believed to exist until recently, when a four-minute clip of the Quintette playing "J'Attendrai" was included in the DVD "Stéphane Grappelli: A Life in the Jazz Century."

Django Reinhardt, Omnipresent Icon Will Friedwald 2010

TIM KLIPHUIS The Dutch violinist plays a tribute to Stéphane Grappelli, the French jazz violinist who formed the 1930s all-string jazz band Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt. 8 and 10 p.m. Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave.

Going Out Guide for Washington, D.C., Sept. 16-22 2010