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The Artistic Director's Guide is our way of taking you "beyond the bio". Here you'll find audio and video clips, and I'll describe what I like about each artist and suggest why he or she is important to the scene. So dive in—use the menu options above to find an artist, and let's seek to answer "What's so good about...?"

Josh Grossman, Artistic Director
Toronto Downtown Jazz

What's so good about Emir Kusturica and The No Smoking Orchestra?

Submitted by Josh Grossman on Wed Jun 16 11:29am
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Emir Kusturica No Smoking Orchestra

The No Smoking Orchestra (TNSO) has been called "a Gypsy techno-rock band" and I think that's a great label: imagine combining all of the best, most exciting parts of the gypsy music tradition (Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli and their contemporaries) with the energy and spectacle of techno and rock music, and you'll begin to understand what it's like to experience a TSNO show. And what exactly does "Gypsy techno-rock" sound like? Check this out:

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