Les Doigts de l'Homme were a French Gypsy jazz band that grew out of the guitar of Olivier Kikteff. Kikteff was a self-taught guitarist who had played in Burkina Faso and trained in Celtic music before turning to jazz manouche, and the group formed in Brittany in 2003 and later settled in the Rhône-Alpes region. Kikteff's first CD with the double bassist Tanguy Blum marked the start of the band's sound. The first record, Dans le monde (2003, 11 tracks, among them "Les Yeux noirs" and "Le Poinçonneur des Lilas"), credits Kikteff on guitar, Blum on bass and Mamadou Sarembe on djembe. The next releases added the rhythm guitarist Marc Laverty: the album Les Doigts de l'Homme (Lamastrock, 2005), on which Kikteff also plays banjo and sings lead, and the five-track EP Gipsy Jazz Nucléaire (2006), whose pieces include a version of Ravel's "Boléro".

Les Doigts dans la prise (2008) appeared on Cristal Records. By 1910 (2010) the band's core was a guitar trio of Kikteff, Yannick Alcocer and Benoît Convert, with Blum on double bass; the album is named for the year of Django Reinhardt's birth and includes standards and Reinhardt-era repertoire, among them "Blue Skies", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "Ol' Man River" and "Minor Swing". 1910 was the first of their records distributed in North America, and it appeared on vinyl in 2011. The band played the Off festival of Jazz à Juan in 2007, and by the late 2010s a published biography counted about 700 concerts, with tours across Europe and in South Africa, Australia, Canada, Malaysia and Russia.

Mumbo Jumbo (2013, Lamastrock) brought in the accordionist Antoine Girard, and Le Coeur des vivants (2017) followed on the same label. In 2021 the group toured with the singer Amélie-les-Crayons, and a joint album, Amélie-les-Crayons chante avec Les Doigts (de l'Homme), appeared on Neomme in 2022. For their twentieth anniversary they chose to record rather than look back: Erratic, The Art of Roaming (Lamastrock, September 20, 2024) is a double album of 23 new pieces, the first disc mostly acoustic and the second electric, with the percussionist Nazim Aliouche and the drummer Pierre Rettien. A launch concert took place at the Studio de l'Ermitage in Paris on November 22, 2024. The group was on the programme of Jazz à Vienne in 2025.

In October 2025 Citizen Jazz reported that the band had decided to end after 22 years, with a full-house concert at Nancy Jazz Pulsations as part of a final tour whose two halves mirrored the acoustic and electric discs. No concerts were listed for 2026.

The band's core was the manouche tradition of Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France: swing played on rhythm-and-lead acoustic guitars over a walking double bass, with Reinhardt's repertoire as the point of departure and a large share of original compositions, many of them by Kikteff and, as Citizen Jazz noted, Convert. The group never stayed inside that frame. Biographies and radio presenters describe a mix of Eastern European and Romani music, flamenco, French chanson, classical themes and, in the band's own biography, an energy close to punk; the TSF Jazz programme Deli Express introduced them as a band that was not only manouche. The later records moved further from the hot club sound, with accordion on Mumbo Jumbo and an electric disc, with drums and electronics, on Erratic. Their own releases and festival billings (Jazz à Vienne, Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Jazz à Juan) place them in jazz, and only one subgenre tag, Gypsy Jazz, fits honestly; the rock and world elements are described here rather than tagged.