Though many people come for the fiery dancing, the true aficionado knows that flamenco is a marriage of cante (song), baile (dance) and toque (guitar playing). “It’s always a conversation,” says Jason ...

In 2017, Italian musician Luca Stricagnoli’s cover of the hit Gorillaz song “Feel Good Inc.” featuring his triple-neck guitar — an invention of his — went viral. The video of him executing the bass ...

Flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata, who sold nearly 100 million records worldwide and broke boundaries for Gypsy musicians, has died in southern France. He was 93. De Plata died Wednesday in a ...

A five-day celebration of the music and spirit of gypsy jazz icon Django Reinhardt energizes Whidbey Island Wednesday through Sept. 23. DjangoFest Northwest will be packed with gypsy jazz, Eastern ...

WHEN Denise Glaser, a reporter for French TV, went in 1965 to talk to Manitas de Plata, then the world’s most famous flamenco player, the interview was rather strange. She knew that he found words ...

A young Jesse Cook would thumb through his parents' vast record collection until something piqued his interest. From the moment he heard the mysterious sounds of flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata, ...

Manitas de Plata, one of the world’s most renowned flamenco guitarists, who sold almost 100 million records and whose dazzling ability and charismatic stage presence helped him acquire a devoted ...

About an hour south of Sevilla in a rural Spanish pueblo called Morón de la Frontera are the remains of a Moorish citadel, a cathedral and a rather gawky monument to a gamecock. Little else there ...

It’s not easy following in the footsteps of a legend. But Lulo Reinhardt has carved out a melodious path of his own, as an internationally acclaimed guitarist. He is the great-nephew of gypsy jazz ...

Spanish guitar icon Paco de Lucia, whose fusion of flamenco with jazz and classical created a stunning new hybrid, died Tuesday evening near Cancun, Mexico, where he lived. The cause was an apparent ...

Carlos Montoya, a guitarist and composer who played an important role in transforming flamenco from a localized Spanish folk form into a style with an international following, died Wednesday. He was ...