Stephane Wrembel Django L'impressioniste

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Here is Stephane in his own words when being asked about if these pieces were improvised. He's careful with his choice of words. He starts with saying there's always a gray area when something is composed and when is it improvised, that it's normal in music to have something composed and then you play around with it, says that they're very well prepared, things that he (Django) obviously played a lot, carefully crafted in his mind etc... It's from the recent Fresh Air interview, the question comes up at 33:25

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/30/848340378/guitarist-stephane-wrembel-plays-music-inspired-by-jazz-great-django-reinhardt

PS obviously, or it seems to me that this comes down to the ratio of improvised vs composed. Is it that he had the majority of pieces and parts in place prior to recording, knew the order of them, had the thing developed begining to end and then took some liberties during the recording. Or, he had a collection of parts and ideas, sat down to record maybe knowing how he's going to start but not knowing where it's gonna go and how it's going to end? I'm with Stephane here. It's sounds so meticulously structured, dynamics so carefully crafted, so deliberate with where it's going to take a breath, where it's going to release and take off and every single piece is like a small masterpiece in itself. And no hickups anywhere in any of them. Even at the order of magnitude of Django's improvisational genius, it's hard to believe these pieces are the results of a chance more than intention.