Although I was already very familiar with jazz, I wasn't aware of Django and the Gypsy Swing / Swing Manouche.

One day, probably being 16, I discovered it and it changed my experience with music forever.

While my friends fantasized with motorcycles, I was dreaming to attend the Samois Sur Senne festival. This passion drove me to fly to Rome, Paris, Berlin, etc just to see Angelo Debarre or Rosenberg, to fanatically collect records that never made it to the digital era like Waso's, and what not.

For those that weren't exposed yet to it, please, let yourself be tempted. Allow Django's music touch you with its brutal delicacy and self-mocking irony.

Now, after 30 years, I still love it.