Romane Quintet - Romane (g); Florin Niculescu (v); Philippe "Doudou" Cuillerier, Laurent Bajata (g); Pierre Maingourd (b) - 1993
Destinee	Dreams Memory	Gypsy Rag	Vent D'est
Anatole	L'aveugle (la Chanson De Mon Pere)	Duo D'amour	Couleur Chaude
Dans Le Regard De Laura	Swing For Ninine	Marcel Cazes, Nationalite Musicien ? (cl)
Romane stands out amongst all the ziggy jazz guitar players who revealed themselves over the past ten years, as an uncommon instrumentalist. His play style mixes rigor and dexterity, research and spontaneousness. His recent duo recordings with Stochelo Rosenberg reflect this extraordinary talent as a guitar player. He does not look to the past, but brings along with himself the same poetry inherited from Django Reinhardt. Within his acoustic quartet, surrounded by musician with a metronomic swing and inspired, jubilatory solos, he demonstrates the whole range of his talent, coming out of the beaten tracks to offer superb remakes of French songs (Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf) as well as compositions of which he alones knows the secret. "A true feast, absolute happiness" (Répertoire) Touched by Django Reinhardt's style when he was young, Romane wanted for many years to let play again the music of the French jazzy tradition called sometimes manouche jazz or gypsy swing. Romane is resigned to use the experiences of the past to get the best of today's music. It's his wish to make tradition evolve. He also wants to open the wings of culture to whomever is interested, and his educational works can testify to this: ("The Manouche Spirit"/Carish Editions, "Gypsy Jazz"/P.Beuscher Editions, "La Pompe"/Lemoine Editions, "Play Back and Guitar Themes Manouche"/Connection Editions). We also have seen him crossing strings with some brilliant artists like Bob Brotzmann, Babik Reinhardt, Chet Atkins, James Carter and, of course, Didier Lockwood, with whom he's shared the international scene. — Courtesy Calabash Music

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