Club Django Sextet

Club Django, the Toronto Sextet that specializes in the music of gypsy guitar legend Django Reinhardt, has won the Canadian Collector’s Congress annual award for best trad or classic jazz performance.
Pure Django sound,fabulous Gypsy Swing, an exotic and passionate music that can never die: it's just too much fun!

Gypsy Swing in the Spirit of The Quintet of The Hot Club de France
The Club Django Sextet was nominated for
Best Acoustic Group of the Year 2003
by the National Jazz Awards
Review by Geoff Chapman, The Toronto Star, Thursday July 29 2004 A classy entry from one of the best groups involved in the gypsy swing music polished so brilliantly by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, this 14-tune recording shows the benefit of two relatively recent recruits. Russian-born violinist Rodion Boshoer and veteran Gerry Duligal on accordion mean fatter textures and more emotional weight though the playing is never low on furious energy. There are rarer pieces here,like the lovely "Valse des Niglos" and the title piece waltz (La Gitane) neatly arranged by lead guitarist Johnny Farrell, plus a new one "280 SE" that's smooth and fleet. The band, with founderAndr Sguinot and Tony Oldland on rhythm guitars and Abbey Sholzberg handling bass,is up for the occasion, its dashing treatments of "Limehouse Blues" and "Latcho Drom" contrasting with the mellower " I'm Confessin" and "Exactly Like You" - and it's all done with only two Django pieces, "Daphn" and the inevitable "Nuages". ..

Club Django have performed at most of the major prestigious Jazz Festivals in Canada including Montreal Jazz Festival,Ottawa Jazz Festival,Toronto TD Jazz Festival