Jazz Articles about Stephane Wrembel

About Stephane Wrembel

Live Review

Stéphane Wrembel Quartet at Middle C Jazz

by Mark Sullivan
March 28, 2026

Stéphane Wrembel Quartet Middle C Jazz Charlotte, NC February 22, 2026 French Gypsy jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel began the show solo, playing selections from Django Reinhardt's Preludes for Solo Guitar. Reinhardt is, of course, the foundational Gypsy jazz guitarist, and Wrembel considers the Preludes to be key to understanding his music. He spent five years learning to play them by listening to Reinhardt's recordings and has published a collection with the music presented in both ...

Album Review

Stephane Wrembel: Triptych, featuring Jean-Michel Pilc

Read "Triptych, featuring Jean-Michel Pilc" reviewed by Scott Gudell

by Scott Gudell
December 4, 2024

If Stephane Wrembel's early influences partially evolved from guitarists in classic rock bands such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, it was not long before the French-born guitarist was drawn forever to the creative and romantic sounds of gypsy jazz master guitarist Django Reinhardt. Elements of Reinhardt's often brisk style would drift in and out of many of Wrembel's releases. Dreamers of Dreams, his 2014 release (Water Is Life Records, the artist's label), featured not only stand out cuts such ...

Album Review

Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment I & II

Read "The Django Experiment I & II" reviewed by Peter Jurew

by Peter Jurew
April 2, 2017

When guitarist extraordinaire Stephane Wrembel was invited to appear at the 2012 Academy Award to play his composition, “Bistro Fada," the theme song for Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, it represented a high point in the modern history of the genre known as “Gypsy jazz." Inspired by the original Quintette du le Hot Club de France, co-led in the 1930's and '40's by the Sinti-Romani guitar genius Django Reinhardt and his violinist partner, Stephane Grappelli, Gypsy jazz has continued to ...

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Django A Gogo 2017 Music Festival

by Peter Jurew
March 17, 2017

Django A Gogo 2017 Music Festival Carnegie Hall New York, NY March 3, 2017 Stephane Wrembel, the France-born, Berklee-educated guitarist now based in New Jersey, produced the first Django A Gogo festival in 2004 as a single evening to pay homage to Django Reinhardt. Since then, the “Gypsy Jazz" style of the genius guitarist, composer, co-leader of the original Quintette du le Hot Club de France and progenitor of the genre, has ...