Gypsy jazz musicians from around Puget Sound will celebrate Django Reinhardt’s 107th birthday with an evening of music from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Treehouse Café.

The party will be hosted by local gypsy jazz band Ranger and the Re-Arrangers and will feature guest appearances by Roger Ferguson on guitar, Chris Laughbon on trombone, Matt Sircely on mandolin, Stephen Vail on saxophone and John Willett and Ann Parker on vocals.

Admission is free. Donations will be accepted.

Reinhardt was an itinerant Gypsy who earned international acclaim in the 1930s. Many of his compositions became jazz classics and he is considered one of the top guitar soloists of all time. Duke Ellington referred to him as “the most creative jazz musician to originate anywhere outside the United States.” Decades later, Jerry Garcia said: “Even today, nobody has really come to the state that he was playing at…nobody plays with the whole fullness of expression that Django has.”

The evening will feature songs from the repertoire of Ranger and the Re-Arrangers: swing standards, traditional gypsy melodies and, of course, several of Reinhardt’s compositions.