Michael Dregni is the author of the New York Times bestseller Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend. He?s also a guitarist struggling to play Django?s music. A regular contributor to Vintage Guitar magazine, Dregni?s writing has also appeared in Guitar Player and Acoustic Guitar magazines, as well as The Utne Reader and others. He?s the author of more than a dozen obscure books on a variety of eccentric topics. Michael Dregni lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his one wife, two sons, and too many guitars.

Alain Antonietto is the world?s pioneering historian of jazz tsigane. He is the author of numerous articles on Romany music, a long-time contributor to La Revue Etudes Tsiganes, and producer of albums collecting rare Gypsy music. He is also the co-author of Django Reinhardt: Un géant sur son nuage and Django Reinhardt: Rythmes futurs. He lives in Belleville, a Paris quartier made famous by Django?s jazz melody of the same name.

Anne Legrand holds a Ph.D. in the history
of music and musicology from the University of Paris Sorbonne. She curates the vast and important Charles Delaunay archives at the audiovisual department of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Anne has published essays on jazz history in reviews such as Les Cahiers du Jazz, Études, Cahiers d?Histoire de la Radiodiffusion, and Jazzman magazine.