Rosenbergs Bring "Gypsy" Gibsons Home

The Rosenberg Trio brought their custom Gibsons back to America to perform for the luthiers who built them.
"They wanted to play for the guys in appreciation for building the guitars," Custom Division Operations Manager Mike McGuire said, noting that the trio records and performs with a pair of L-5s and a Lee Sklar Signature Bass. "They wanted our instrument builders to hear what they had built."

Lead guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, bassist Nonnie Rosenberg and Rhythm guitarist Nous'che are all virtuoso players and masters of the "Gypsy" style of jazz music, popularized by Django Reinhardt in Europe in the 1930s. Last year, all three picked up guitars made at Gibson's Custom, Art and Historic Division. They broke them in by stunning the audience at the Frankfurt Musik Messe trade show.
In Nashville to record with the Manhattan Transfer, the trio dropped by the Custom Shop to demonstrate their enthusiasm for the axes. McGuire said the Rosenberg trio played three numbers, each featuring lightning fast improvisation leads by Stochelo.
"I've never heard anyone play so clean, so fast and so melodically," McGuire said. "I can't even hear that fast. I'm planning on picking up their record, and I don't buy many records. They're just amazing."

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