Of Gypsy origin, Latcho Drom’s leader, Christophe Lartilleux, was brought up in a travelling circus (Hart-Goujon), run by gypsy performers. He was taught the guitar by his father, Yvon, himself a guitarist (who played many years with the accordionist Maurice Vittenet). He received many musical influences, from jazz fusion to bop, including flamenco and hard rock. He has played with some musicians as different as Yoshko Seffer, Alain Caron, Florin Niculescu, Bireli Lagrene, Laurent Korcia . But his first love has always been the gypsy guitar and Latcho Drom (meaning “have a good journey” in gypsy language) is the fulfillment of his dream to create the Hot Club de France sounds of Grappelli and Reinhardt’s famous quintet. With his acoustic band, he revives the sound and the swing of those times, (especially by using the famous Selmer guitars), while developing his own personality and originality. Immediately the group was extremely successful, and has never stopped performing all over the world.

"la légende du swing"

New compilation 2008 : “Latcho Drom stands as an important landmark in the history of the music symbolized by Django Reinhardt. Gleaning from the heritage claimed by the inspired Manouche, Christophe Lartilleux has always maintained the need to modernize Gypsy swing, listening to today’s music, American jazz in particular. With his Manouche mother and born in the Hart-Goujon circus family, Christophe Lartilleux conveys other forms of cultures and experience. In the early 1990s, he founded the now legendary Latcho Drom which toured Europe and the rest of the world to promote Gypsy swing when it was not yet fashionable. A veritable ambassador of Tsigania, on a par with Bireli Lagrène and Raphaël Fays, he has encountered the best musicians and taken pride of place in the French musical landscape. Editions Frémeaux & Associés are proud to present a boxed set with the first three albums made by Latcho Drom from 1994 to 1997 (La Verdine, La Sorcière and Live in Madrid) which ranked Christophe Lartilleux and his accomplices among the great names of jazz and Gypsy swing.”
Benjamin Goldenstein & Patrick Frémeaux

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