NAHANT — The band, Gypsy Electro, brought an eclectic mix of jazz, swing, rock ’ n ’ roll, and movie feels to the Nahant Public Library Thursday evening as the last act of the Summer Music Series that started in early July. 

The band was created a little more than a year ago and features violinist Tomoko Iwamoto, bassist Greg Toro, and guitarist Bruno Peterson.

Gypsy Electro draws inspiration from the three musicians’ love of jazz music which they discovered during their studies at Berklee College of Music in Cambridge, said Toro. 

The trio plays in the style of “Gypsy jazz,” which was established in the early 1900s by Django Reinhardt, a descendant of the Romani people, who created a style of jazz that did not require drums, Iwamoto said. 

In Reinhart’s quartet, he had four guitarists, so Peterson was playing ensembles that are meant for four separate people, Iwamoto said. 

The group played 10 songs, and some came with a twist. They added Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker,” Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman,” film favorite tunes of “Pure Imagination,” and “If I Only Had A Brain,” as bridges to classical and jazz standard songs. 

Iwamoto even designed a song of her own by blending a folk tune from her hometown, Osaka, Japan’s Summer Festival, and the classical piece “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The reasoning, Iwamoto said, was to make jazz, more accessible to the audience by bringing tunes they recognized into the mix, so a larger audience can enjoy it. 

“Any music you know has some improvisation part to it, and some swing feel, and it’s more like spontaneous music making,” Iwamoto said. “That’s jazz.”