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You probably think this song is about you When he was really exerting himself, he squinted and looked into the middle distance like he couldn't remember why he walked into a room. His fingering on Reinhardt's waltz "Montagne Sainte-Genevieve" was blisteringly fast but fluid and effortless nonetheless. He was still flying through the air, but within some sort of confines. When his band came on stage - a second guitar, stand-up bass, brushes on drums - they became the trapeze framework.

And, I mean - sure, I suppose it did sound like that.Īlone on stage he soared, untethered.

"It's like fairies dancing in the woods and all that stuff," he said by way of introduction. He began with two solo numbers, including his own "Improvisation Number Two." In between the history lessons Wrembel played the guitar like his fingers got religion. He talked about the influence of Claude Debussy the French impressionists and modernists, the importance of Frederic Chopin's waltzes, the "DNA of Django's melodic material." His early set at Max at Eastman Place was a virtuoso display and also a lesson in the musical and cultural context of Reinhardt and his Gypsy jazz. Stephane Wrembel is probably wise, then, to lean into the comparison. The same is true for French jazz musicians named Stephane, like Stephane Grappelli, famed sideman of - Django Reinhardt.

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