Djangofestivalen 2025

Dario Napoli Trio (IT/FR) feat. Benji Winterstein 

Florin Niculescu Quartet (FR)

Jam-session med Nitcho Reinhardt Trio (FR) 

About the Django Festival: Every year since 1980, the gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt has been celebrated with a separate festival in Norway, a tradition that has since been copied in over 50 countries. The speaker is Jon Larsen.

430/380 ,- + fee is the price for daypasses og 950 ,- is the price for festivalpass and includes all three days and the jam-session 24. og 25. jan. Festival passes can be purchased here.

Dario Napoli Trio (IT/FR) feat. Benji Winterstein           

Line up:
Dario Napoli – guitar
Benji Winterstein – rhythm guitar
Tonino De Sensi – double bass

Italienske Dario Napoli kommer til Djangofestivalen for andre gang, og nå med sin Dario Napoli Trio som nettopp har gitt ut albumet «Gypsy Nights». Albumet består av elleve originale instrumentallåter med Dario på hovedgitar, Tommaso Pepini på rytmegitar og Tonino De Sensi på bassgitar. Albumet er avslappet og rett fram, med melodisk musikk som har fått en aksent av Gerado de Olveiras smakfulle brasilianske perkusjon – en blanding av mild Gypsy swing og moderne jazz. Dommen over albumet lyder som følgende på Jazzguitar Today: «Sammen er musikken deres flytende og tett sammensveiset. Dette er ikke bare en sigøynerjazz-innspilling. Fra den moderne jazztrioen gir dette nye utspillet et respektfullt nikk til Django Reinhardt mens det smakfult tilfører en mer moderne tilnærming til å tolke låter med sigøyner-jazz stil.»

Florin Niculescu Quartet (FR)

Line up:
Florin Niculescu – violin
Yves Brouqui – guitar
Bruno Rousselet – double bass
Yoann Serra – trommer

Florin Niculescu is a super violinist from Romania who has played at the Django Festival many times in different formations, as a guest, soloist and in different bands. Last year he took our breath away when he spontaneously played with more bands than planned, including performing with Jimmy Rosenberg. At the age of six, Florin started at the George Enescu Music Academy in Bucharest and won first prize. At the age of twelve, he heard Stéphane Grappelli on the radio and instantly knew that this was the style of music he was meant to play. Since then, Niculescu has had a long career, with many orchestras, philharmonics, played at Carnegie Hall and was named "Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters" by the French Ministry of Culture. "With Florin Niculescu, jazz in France finally has the successor to Grappelli that we have been waiting for." - Michel Bedin Magazine Jazz hot.

Nitcho Reinhardt Trio (FR) plays Friday + Saturday at Belleville! Jam session starts at 11:00 PM both days.

Line up:
Nicho Reinhardt – guitar
Sébastien Félix – guitar
Estéban Félix – double bass

Nitcho Reinhardt is a French string swing guitarist and composer who returns to the Django Festival to perform, this time with a jam session at Belleville! Reinhardt started playing guitar when he was 15. His view of string swing is that it is a living genre of music, best experienced live – by being listened to and shared with an audience. Reinhardt builds on the legacy of Django Reinhardt, and has released three studio albums: "Latcho Dykk" (2008), "Une Historie" (2011) and "Geronimo" (2018).

Joining Reinhardt on the jam session is guitarist Sébastien Félix with his son Estéban Félix playing double bass. Sébastien Félix has performed at a number of festivals in Europe and the United States, such as "Django à Gogo" in New York and he has been the artistic director of the "Go! Django" festival, in Sergy, France, near Geneva. Sébastien plays his new Favino guitar from 1957 and his talents are displayed in different styles: Gypsy jazz, bossa nova, swing waltz...