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He often performs in swing , jazz fusion , and post-bop styles.

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His father and grandfather were guitarists, and he was raised in the Gypsy guitar tradition. He started playing at age four or five and by seven was improvising jazz in a style similar to that of Django Reinhardt , whom his father admired and wanted his sons to emulate. In , while in his early teens, he recorded his first album, Routes to Django: Live at the Krokodil Jazzpoint, In he performed in a duo with Stanley Jordan.

His collaboration with Italian guitarist Giuseppe Continenza, with whom he has performed in numerous concerts and festivals, including the Pescara Jazz and the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival, began in , when the two met behind the scenes of a festival and started talking about each other's musical interests. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

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