Stephane Wrembel: ‘Midnight in Paris’, Django, and the Call of the Desert

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Stephane Wrembel studied guitar in, among other places, Roma camps outside Paris.

He wrote the distinctly Django Reinhardt-like theme for Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris.”

But he disdains the term ‘Gypsy Jazz’, and woe betide anyone who says he’s just following in Reinhardt’s footsteps.

The World’s Alex Gallafent has our Global Hit.

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