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Django Reinhardt All-Stars Featuring Dorado Schmitt at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on October 9, 2015
Where
Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227
When
Mon, November 9, 2015
7:00 pm
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Musicians
Dorado Schmitt
guitarAbout
Dorado Schmitt returns! Considered the finest purveyor of the Django Reinhardt gypsy jazz tradition, Schmitt learned his craft in the same Roma tradition that nurtured the great Reinhardt. Aside from venturing into rock music during his teen years, the virtuosic guitarist/violinist has been a loyal acolyte of the Reinhardt legacy of hard-charging swing rhythms, matched with the melodic and harmonic sophistication common to the jazz era of the ’30s and ’40s. Far from being stuck in the past, Schmitt and his All-Stars are living proof that Reinhardt’s innovations are still relevant for contemporary audiences...