Angelo Debarre Guitar

Steven Reinhardt is a French Gipsy guitar performer. Steven is the descendant of legendary guitar master Django Reinhardt's cousin. He is a member of this broad family that carries around the world, generations after generations, a special way of playing music. Listening to Steven's music is like hearing centuries of Manouche tradition: A way of life, a unique culture. He is actually performing in quartet. Steven Reinhardt's second album, "Thaissy Bolero", dedicated to his daughter Thaissy.

Steven Reinhardt is a French Gipsy guitar performer. Steven is the descendant of legendary guitar master Django Reinhardt's cousin. He is a member of this broad family that carries around the world, generations after generations, a special way of playing music. Listening to Steven's music is like hearing centuries of Manouche tradition: A way of life, a unique culture. He is actually performing in quartet. Steven Reinhardt's second album, "Thaissy Bolero", dedicated to his daughter Thaissy.

Whether or not many jazz guitarists have any gypsy blood, the influence of Django Reinhardt is often readily apparent in their playing. The Django Reinhardt NY Festival saluted the late master with several critically acclaimed concerts at Birdland in the fall of 2000, featuring no fewer than five Django-influenced guitarists, including his son, Babik Reinhardt (heard in one of his last recordings prior to his death a year later), as well as veteran Bucky Pizzarelli, two rising stars in their thirties, Frank Vignola and Birelli Lagrene, and finally the young sensation Jimmy Rosenberg.

The story about Jimmy Rosenberg is a classic rock’n’roll tragedy. Everything about him was extraordinary, not only the music, the turbulence, the party lion, and his raw force as a guitar player, but also his sensitivity – like Jimi Hendrix and Chet Baker combined. He reached the top before he was 18, but when tragedy struck, it hit hard, and despite a couple of premature attempts to a comeback, Jimmy Rosenberg has not yet recovered from his collapse on stage in 2004. This exceptional talent is portrayed in documentary films, and his nine album releases are amazing snaphots of the young master at work. At his best he played the guitar like no other before him, but there were nights when he could barely play at all. Today he is withdrawn from public life, like a Greta Garbo of jazz. To get a perspective on Jimmy The Kid we can start with two incidents in the Dutch sinti community in his childhood.

Joseph "Jimmy" Rosenberg (born 10 April 1980, Helmond) is a Dutch Sinto-Romani guitarist known for his virtuoso playing of gypsy jazz. A cousin of Stochelo Rosenberg, Jimmy Rosenberg started playing guitar when he was seven years old. Two years later he led his own trio, the Gypsy Kids, which played in the Gypsy jazz tradition and appeared on the British documentary Django Legacy. The trio released its first album, Safari, when Rosenberg was twelve. A year later Rosenberg released his debut solo album, Swinging with Jimmy Rosenberg.

Djangophonique is a musical project born out of reverence for the Parisian Jazz Manouche style that was made popular by the legendary Sinti guitarist Django Reinhardt and his Quintette du Hot Club de France. While remaining steeped in the rich and virtuosic tradition, the group brings this music into the present with stunning improv, spontaneity and musical interaction. Hot swing, lush ballads, musette waltzes, jazz standards, boleros, and moody minor pieces are all fused together with theatrical flair and a sense of humor.

After numerous recordings and concerts with great musicians (Angelo Debarre, Thomas Dutronc, Bireli Lagrène, Stéphane Sanseverino, Stochelo Rosenberg, Lulu Gainsbourg…), violinist Marius Apostol presents his new album: StradiMarius Quartet after the very successful "Bohemian jazz project" in 2011, his first album as a leader.