Stephane Wrembel, one of many foremost specialists on the legendary Django Reinhardt’s jazz manouche guitar fashion, is taking part in San Antonio membership Jazz, TX on Thursday night.
Wrembel is touring to advertise his new album, Django New Orleans II — Hors -Série, a mix of New Orleans jazz and the “gypsy jazz” fashion Reinhardt pioneered. The album consists of contemporary takes on a number of classics within the Reinhardt, French jazz and New Orleans jazz repertoire along with a number of unique compositions by Wrembel.
The requirements getting a brand new twist embody “La vie en rose,” famously sung by Édith Piaf. One other recognizable normal related to Piaf joined by Robert Chauvigny and his orchesra, titled “La Foule,” additionally will get a rendition on the album, which dropped Nov. 14.
Usually a purely instrumental artist, this album additionally options Wrembel’s debut as a vocalist.
Like Reinhardt, who lived and labored in Paris for many of his life within the early twentieth century, Wrembel is a resident of a city the capital metropolis’s outskirts. And in addition like his jazz manouche forebear, Wrembel discovered to play within the Romani camps of Europe.
Wrembel’s unique compositions have landed in quite a lot of Hollywood releases, significantly these hoping to convey a way of place in Paris, together with Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
Wrembel has been lauded by excessive profile publications together with the New York Occasions, who described him as “maybe probably the most artistic improviser in Gypsy jazz at this time,” including that “Mr. Wrembel performs the guitar with a wealthy and colourful lyricism.”
Tickets are virtually offered out for each tonight’s 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. present, although a handful stay for each, at a worth of $28. Wrembel and his equally masterful trio final performed Jazz, TX — the basement jazz membership on the Pearl — in January, for which each reveals additionally almost offered out.
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