Django Reinhardt was an innovative virtuoso on the guitar and, to this day, the group he led with Stéphane Grappelli remains a legend in European jazz.
Born in Liverchies, near Charleroi, Belgium, on , Jean Baptiste Reinhardt was the son of a travelling Gypsy entertainer. By age 12, he began playing with local bands at dances and bars, and then moved on to solo engagements in the cafés of Montmartre in Paris. At 18, a fire in his caravan...