Ian Cruickshank is the founder and leader of the group, "Gypsy Jazz" and the author of "The Guitar Style of Django Reinhardt and the Gypsies" and "From Rock to Jazz".
He has played with violinist, Nigel Kennedy and several leading gypsy guitarists from the continent. Like many other guitarists he was inspired by the music of Reinhardt, the extrordinary gypsy who left an indelible imprint on jazz in general - and the guitar in particular.

Although Reinhardt's music is distinctive and inimitable, Ian Cruickshank has anylised many aspects of his style, and in this video he presents a stage-by-stage approach to the principal ingredients:

• Rhythm
• Triads
• Chords
• Diminished runs
• Arpeggios
• Octaves