Swing à la Django

Swing à la Django is an innovative band, that created a special mixed music style harmonizing gypsy swing, authentic bossa nova, Hungarian folk music, French chansons, tango and jazz. The result is the ‘django pop’ based on virtuoso instrumental improvisations mixed in many genres. Their music was originally inspired by legendary Django Reinhardt. Following the footsteps of Reinhardt they evoke the atmosphere of the 30s & 40s and transfer it to today's modern music milieu. 

It was an idea of Pal Lombos, the head of the band, in the Summer of 2014, to orchestrate the band’s songs to a „big band formation” as this kind of music has not been played in Hungary before, and very rarely performed in other countries as well. The orchestration was successful, so the big band formation could debute in the great concert hall of MÜPA in Budapest, on the 22nd of January 2015. Following this event the formation was immediately asked to give a concert of their own at Városmajor Open Air Theatre. Since then the formation has had great and even bigger success. The parts of the big band are, apart from the Swing a la Django’s members, the Budapest Saxophone Quartet, the Corpus Trombone Quartet and the trumpeters of the Dohnányi Orchestra from Budafok. 

The band members previously worked with Sting, Zubin Mehta, Andrea Bocelli, Stochelo Rosenberg, Zoltan Kocsis, Gabor Hollerung, Kobayashi Kenichiro, Ivan Fischer, Balazs Havasi, Roby Lakatos and many more...

They played in Carnegie Hall, New York (USA); Opera Hong Kong; Royal Albert Hall, London (UK); Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland and at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Quebec; Musikverein, Wien (AT) & main event venues of Hungary etc.

Line up:

• Pál Lombos - founder & double bass
• János Dani - solo guitar & violin
• Vilmos Seres - clarinet & saxophone
• Róbert Gallyas-Lakatos - piano
• Norbert Dani - rhythm guitar & double bass
• Nándor Weisz - percussion