Oscars and Stephane Wrembel

Heavy Django

Hope some of you caught Stephane Wrembel playing the stuffing out of Minor Swing right before a commercial break during the 2012 Academy awards last night. I believe it was played live as well (that was what I was told plus I saw Selmer style guitar in the orchestra pit shortly afterwards). If anyone has an audio copy of it, please do share or email to me, I'd certainly appreciate it. Couldn't believe my ears when I heard it. Well done Stephane!!

klaatu

I noticed that guitar as well (just watching the Oscars as recorded on my DVR). It looked like a Busato or Favino, but I couldn't see it well enough to tell.

seeirwin

Looked like a Holo to me.

MaxwellGarces

beat me to the punch!! he played quite a bit actually, pretty cool. and they showed his Holo guitar a couple of times... good work Bob!!!

Archtop Eddy

Hi fellas. I posted the audio clip of Minor Swing yesterday in a separate but paralleling thread about Stephane Wrembel and the Academy Award. It's under Gypsy Jazz Events, North America. Here's the link: http://www.djangobooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=53570#p53570 AE

Bob Holo

:-) (grinning like a kid)

Thanks Gents. Yes, it was a Modele Nouveau. Stephane also has a Hotclub model that I based on the late '30s Selmer transitional petit bouche, but he recorded Bistro Fada on his Modele Nouveau so he played it for the show.

... and yeah... he nailed it... he's a great studio musician.

By the way... very cool album, "Origins", that he's releasing mid March. It has Bistro Fada & the theme he wrote for Vicky Christina Barcelona and a neat selection of Jazz Tsigane and world music. I don't know how many of them are originals as I'm not a music historian - but I think most of them were originals. I think it's so cool that we have a generation of really talented musicians who are evolving this music and adding to it. That's what a living and growing music style is all about.

harlemjoys

Yea I thought I recognized the guitar, sitting there before commercial breaks in the balcony. It's too bad there was never a shot of Stephane playing it close up. I've played it a few times before at Stephane's house and he always said he much he liked the tone, especially amplified. It's definitely a light weight guitar with great playability. I would eventually love to get one and enrich the sound of my quartet, we just added a clarinetist and are getting ready to record! Stephane recommended I contact Bob and I did, but so far I haven't heard back from him oh well...

I'm also real excited for his new album also and I hope it has as many originals as "Terre des Hommes"

Elliot

Let's hope that something was done to help GJ emerge from the genre-bound chains that have kept it from the forefront of public consciousness. It seems like this whole thing is extinct music to everyone except those who play it, at times.

MaxwellGarces

Elliot wrote:

Let's hope that something was done to help GJ emerge from the genre-bound chains that have kept it from the forefront of public consciousness. It seems like this whole thing is extinct music to everyone except those who play it, at times.

well said elliot.