(Gypsy Jazz) Stephane Wrembel - The Django Experiment III - 2018, MP3, 320 kbps

Elsewhere, this album illustrates Django’s legacy unbound. On “Swing Gitan/Apocalypse,” the warp-speed flamenco-style guitars of Wrembel and Thor Jensen spiral in ever tightening circles. A drone like a mu’addhin’s call to prayer sets the guitars on a path like a crackling current climbing a Jacob’s ladder on “Les flots du Danube.” On Reinhardt’s “Flèche d’or,” Wrembel and Jenson’s rattling sweep-picking is bolstered by Driscoll’s trilling and dive-bombing clarinet. The guitarists pass the bebop baton back and forth as they stray into slipknot avant-garde territory.
Throughout, Wrembel stays true to his inspiration by rejecting notions of Gypsy jazz purism. In his hands, Django’s syncopated Sinti swing pulls everything from hard bop to the otherworldly squall of free jazz into its orbit.
(Pat Moran, acousticguitar.com)