Biréli Lagrene at Jazz in Marciac 2012

Biréli Lagrene is usually associated as a gypsy jazz guitarist, heavily inspired by Django Reinhardt.
This is true that Bireli was discovered at very young age as Django style guitarist, but later, especially when he left France for US, he also played a lot of jazz with such musicians as Benny Goodman, Benny Carter, Larry Coryell, Jaco Pastorius and Al DI Meola.

This year Bireli performed at Jazz in Marciac festival, August 3, 2012, playing electric guitar.