Gismo Graf Trio

Others received their driver's license when they reached the age of majority, and the guitarist Gismo Graf was given a band that bears his name on this occasion: On October 1, 2010, his 18th birthday, the first concert of the Gismo Graf Trio took place at the Guitar Festival in Wehr. Not that Graf had not already gained a lot of experience: At six, playing guitar, under the guidance of his father Joschi, who himself is an excellent, renowned gypsy guitarist and co-founder of the Zigeli Winter Quintet. At the age of twelve, Gismo made his first public appearances in his father's band, at 16 the first band of his own 16 Gypsy Strings. With this band, Gismo made a name for himself as the future star guitarist of the Gypsy Swing, as one who can dress the Gypsy Jazz in a new guise and transport it into the present day - only logical that this name could then appear in the band name.
If you read the date of the first performance carefully, you can see that the band is entering its tenth year. Reason enough to review the time in which the Gismo Graf Trio had a permanent place in the gypsy jazz scene and Graf himself a top position among the Sinti guitarists in the tradition of Django Reinhardt