Gypsy Jazz in Bridgehampton

The Art of Song’s Parlor Jazz series will return to the Bridgehampton Museum’s archives building on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with “From Django to Piazzolla,” a performance by Dallas Vietty, an American jazz accordionist who specializes in the Parisian swing-waltz style of Musette and Gypsy jazz.

Musette is the French accordion music that became especially popular in France from the 1920s through the 1950s and is now enjoying a revival. Gypsy jazz, also known as Gypsy swing, is a style of jazz started in the 1930s by the guitarist Django Reinhardt and is closely linked to Musette. Belgian-born but of Romani descent, Reinhardt’s music combined a dark, chromatic Gypsy flavor with the swing articulation of the period. 

Versed in the American jazz tradition as well as those of France and Europe, Mr. Vietty is the bandleader of three groups that are active on the East Coast concert and festival scene, and as a sideman he has performed at important venues in New York City and throughout the Northeast.

The Parlor Jazz concerts are hosted by two mainstays of the East End jazz scene, Jane Hastay, a pianist, and Peter Martin Weiss, a bassist. Tickets are $25.