I've heard some impressive young players on the gypsy jazz circuit...my friend was playing me a cd of some kid who also, like django, grew up as a gypsy and was playing since he was like 4. He won some big competition when he was like 14 or something, and he was like 19 on this recording (Live at Birdland) and was quite amazing. I seem to like the newer players better then django himself.

The one thing I didn't like about Djangos music is that everything the rhythm section plays sounds like 1/4...it's just chomp chomp chomp w/no articulation. I also find the term Gypsy "jazz" a little misleading, it lacks a lot of the qualities that make jazz what it is. I find it is much more closely related to american bluegrass music, not to mention Django is usually hailed as a hero among the virtuoso flat pickers.