Swing Noire
Hot Swing in the spirit of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
Call it what you may—Gypsy jazz, hot swing, jazz manouche. Swing Noire invokes the energy of a swingin' jazz club and transports audiences back to the early days of jazz with their unique take on Hot Swing in the spirit of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Vermont's oldest acoustic, Hot Club style quartet, Swing Noire makes music that "will entrance and surprise you."
Stephane and Django are credited with bringing this unique music into the world during the early 1930's and creating some of the first jazz based outside of the African American tradition. Their Quintette of the Hot Club of France united jazz with the Manouche Gypsy music of Django's boyhood. If you haven't heard this music (especially live) you are in for a treat - energy, soul, sophistication, ballads, blues, standards, improv.