Stephane Wrembel's Django L'Impressionnniste Video Premiere on Thursday, April 22, 2021

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Stephane will release Django L’Impressionniste, a book of music transcriptions of 17 compositions for solo guitar by legendary musician Django Reinhardt on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Until now, these compositions have previously only been available in recorded form.

The release of the book will coincide with a Gigs.Live video premiere of Stephane performing Django L’Impressionniste in its entirety filmed and recorded in high definition at French Institute Alliance Francaise’s Florence Gould Hall. Tickets for the digital event are $20 and includes one week of “On Demand” viewing. Tickets for the VIP package are $75 and include: event pass, a virtual meet and greet with Stephane (limited to 8 people), and an autographed copy of both the Django L’Impressionniste CD and book. For more information please visit gigs.live/events.

In October of 2019, Stephane released Django L’Impressionniste on double-vinyl putting the spotlight on 17 little-known solo pieces Reinhardt recorded between 1937-1950. Wrembel is the first interpreter who has performed all these solo pieces and collected them in one definitive masterwork. For Wrembel, Django L’Impressionniste is a portrait of Reinhardt’s classical side (he was an admirer of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, the fathers of the French impressionist movement). It took Wrembel 4 years of preparation to learn, rehearse and record these songs. Wrembel spent a great deal of time in 2020 painstakingly transcribing the songs, which were then notated by Adam Perlmutter, editor of Acoustic Guitar. The 111-page, beautifully bound and printed Django L’Impressionniste will be available via Bandcamp with a retail price of $35.00. For more information please visit stephanewrembel.bandcamp.com/.