Our October issue features a long interview with violin phenom Daisy Castro. She's developed as a musician, and as a person, since startling the Jazz Manouche scene as a 13 year old by becoming the hit of Festival Django Reinhardt, in Samois sur Seine, France.
That was 2010. She had already produced an album, Gypsy Moth, that seems fully professional and rises well above juvenalia. That wasn't her first time in the studio either, she had already recorded in an act with her parents known as The Infidel Castros. That year she went on to perform at Djangofest NW in Washington State and at Birdland.
She's since produced two more albums of her own as well as recording in a duo known as Clavicles and joining other groups. In early September she toured with The Resonant Rogues. Within the world of Gypsy Jazz she has toured extensively with several quartets under her own leadership and with the well known Gonzalo Bergera Quartet which has taken her as far as Russia and South America.
Déviation
Bergera appeared on her 2013 album Déviation. He is an Argentinian guitarist in the Django Reinhardt vien, but includes the jazz influence of his native country in his arrangements of progressive Gypsy Jazz.
Castro plays both violin and cello on the album. Bergera in addition to his lead guitar plays mandolin and bandoneón, a type of concertina traditional to tango ensembles. The
