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| Stephane Wrembel Plays The Music of Django Reinhardt  Wednesday April 19 and Wednesday April 26 Hot Club Of New York Play The Music of Django Reinhardt featuring Stephane Wrembel at the Iridium Jazz Club. French guitarist Stephane Wrembel may not be a gypsy by definition, but his music has all the nostalgia, joy and jangle of a true gypsy musician. Passed down from father to son in a rich oral tradition, gypsy music paints an impressionist landscape of the Bohemian lifestyle: traveling gypsies in horse-drawn caravans, dancers careening around campfires, gypsy women in long skirts with carefree children at their knees while a band of musicians plays through the night. The music of Stephane Wrembel takes us to the gypsy camp to dance around the campfire with the same sense of freedom, abandon and vitality as the gypsies.Raised in Fontainebleau France, just outside of Paris, 28-year-old Stephane Wrembel began his guitar studies as a boy, negotiating with his parents for a cheap electric guitar. But it wasn't until his twenties that Wrembel was introduced to Gypsy Jazz while studying at the American School of Music in Paris. "My guitar teacher introduced me to my first gypsy jazz song. A whole new world of sound was revealed to me the moment I heard the first notes." The song was Minor Swing by Django Reinhardt. "I fell in love with the music and dedicated my life to playing it, " says Wrembel. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |