The Best Gypsy Jazz Artists

Over 200 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Gypsy Jazz Artists

Gypsy jazz artists list, with photos, ranked best to worst by votes. List of good gypsy jazz bands includes a filter so you can sort by the groups’s label and what albums they've put out. This list of the top gypsy jazz bands in the world includes all musicians who have released recordings that have gotten distribution, and is an up-to-date list. Gypsy jazz groups and artists are shown below along with any additional genres in which their music belongs. If available, you can also see information about where all gypsy jazz bands on this list got started. These are truly the greatest gypsy jazz bands of all time, since the most famous gypsy jazz artists ever are listed, and the order is decided by actual fans of the best gypsy jazz music.

You can click on the gypsy jazz band names to see more information about that particular notable gypsy jazz group. If they're near the top of the best gypsy jazz artist list, though, then they should have at least some information available. All the top gypsy jazz bands named on the list also have discographies on their pages if you click on the gypsy jazz band names themselves.

The list you're viewing is made up of many different artists, including Django Reinhardt and Al Di Meola. Any artists you vote for graduate closer to the top of the list. Make sure to give artists you favor (like John Jorgenson or Hank Marvin) a vote.

All important, significant and iconic names in gypsy jazz music history deserve your votes, so make sure to choose wisely. You can only vote once on this list.

The list includes all new gypsy jazz bands, and if there are any missing on the list, you can always add them yourself. Just make sure they aren't already on the list and check your spelling, because this is already an accurate compilation of the best examples of gypsy jazz, as well as a good place to start if you're asking yourself, or friends, exactly how to get into gypsy jazz music. Especially since the bands at the top of the list will at the very least be the best choices if you're looking for a list of good gypsy jazz bands with which to start out. No point in listening to them if they aren't actually good or even half-way decent gypsy jazz bands.

This list answers the questions "who are the best gypsy jazz bands of all time?" and "who is the greatest gypsy jazz musician ever?"

If you know enough about the genre, please vote based on the quality of the band's music instead of just voting for the most popular gypsy jazz bands that you might've heard of, but not really listened to closely enough to cast an informed vote.

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Most divisive: John Jorgenson
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