Jazz Manouche is how Gypsy jazz is sometime called and is typically played by a small-group of two or three jazz players. It shares some characteristics and influences with other styles of jazz, like swing and bebop, but retains its own distinctive sound, repertoire, instrumentation and subculture. It’s particularly popular in France, its country of origin (this style is considered to originated in Paris, in the 1930s), and in other European countries like Italy, the Netherlands and Romania. Many of the famous Gypsy jazz artists – like Stochelo Rosenberg and Biréli Lagrène – were born into Romani or Gypsy families and were brought up on the music, whilst others came to it later, although it is not a style that is taught widely in conservatoires, so many jazz musicians are not really exposed to it. One of the important figures, if we speak about Gypsy jazz, would be Django Reinhardt, who was born into a Manouche Romani family in Liberchies, Belgium 1910. He developed an interest in jazz and listening to American stars like Louis Armstrong came up with the style that is today referred to as Manouche or Gypsy jazz.