Check out Django Festival 11 - The Best of Gypsy Jazz Today (2018). You can find it on spotify --> click here! Sign in or just sign up if you don't have an account yet (free).
After listening to this compilation, select a few of your favourite tracks and check out a few of the original albums from the artist. These are all guys active on the scene today.
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My favourite CD of last year...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coeur-Vivants-Doigts-Lhomme/dp/B06XTW8LWF/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518081046&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=les+doigts+d+l'homme
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/live-maisons-laffitte-jazz-festival/1252109896
Beautiful compositions in the Baro Ferret tradition, and playing that puts lyricism before virtuosity.
After listening to this compilation, select a few of your favourite tracks and check out a few of the original albums from the artist. These are all guys active on the scene today.
The previous edition (2016) is on youtube:
So good.
Samson Schmitt's amazingly beautiful trio record "Rire avec Charlie". Check out "Rhapsody à six cordes":
https://homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com/album/rire-avec-charlie
Minor Sing's second album with Yannick Alcocer on board "Jump around". Great songwriting and a lovely version of Minor Swing:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3bDVCAINbxAs2J0avJ9bfY
Biel Ballesters masterpiece concept album "Melodium Melodynamic" comes with a bonus disc with Stochelo playing with them. The artwork really makes it worth to buy the cd set:
https://open.spotify.com/album/78VmLitFdd2Jm0z3bz0yQf