Stephane Wrembel: ‘Midnight in Paris’, Django, and the Call of the Desert
Stephane Wrembel (Photo: Scott Bernstein)
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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