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Gypsy king: From a stool in Brooklyn, Stephane Wrembel plays in the tradition of Django Reinhardt, and invents his own:

"There is no such thing as gypsy jazz," Wrembel said, accelerating his French accented English for emphasis, then halting. "It's 'Django.' Django was one guy, a lot of people were inspired by him, but they do different things."

Bio: Per Liljas is a journalist based in New York. He has previously written and photographed feature stories from South Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

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Gypsy king: From a stool in Brooklyn, Stephane Wrembel plays in the tradition of Django Reinhardt, and invents his own

"There is no such thing as gypsy jazz," Wrembel said, accelerating his French accented English for emphasis, then halting. "It's 'Django.' Django was one guy, a lot of people were inspired by him, but they do different things." More

Posted on February 1st, 2012 11:16am

 

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