Gypsy Jazz Menagerie

We are a group for listening to. During a concert we vary the styles to keep the audience engaged in each and every song. We are not one of these groups that buries our heads in a fakebook and plays a jazz standard for 15 minutes. Each song is carefully crafted and considered. You will hear Django Reinhardt classics like Coquette, modern compositions like Gonzalogy, soulful ballads, rhumba's, bossa's, and original compositions. These songs will be brought to life by internationally renown musicians who have the biggest names and draws in the genre.

No bio could contain the stories of the amazing musicians that perform regularly with the group or as guests. They include the most world renown musicians available; both current and future legends in the gypsy jazz genre, but really the music speaks for itself. You can look up individually the players, or, you can listen to the music again.

We are not a loud group, we are an acoustic listening group. We have a very specific tech rider that instructs the sound engineer how best to reinforce our instruments. For our quartet only four to six channels are needed. We use in sound-hole acoustic microphones that may be additionally reinforced with a condenser placed at the 12th fret. This gives us the cleanest most beautiful sound, but it also limits the amount of amplification we can achieve before feedback becomes uncontrollable when compared to a rock band with electric instruments. No more than 2 monitors are needed, and no subs are needed.