Continental Jazz

Tread cautiously when the title of an album starts off with the phrase "the best of." It's not that the music on the album will be lacking, but that [more]

Violinist Stephane Grappelli has recorded so many fine sets during the past two decades that although virtually all of them are enjoyable, most are not essential. This fine concert [more]

It's hard to believe that after recording as a leader for 40 years, Dresden: In Concert is Jan Garbarek's first-ever live album. He has recorded sparely in 21st century [more]

Postwar Recordings 1944-1953 contains 106 tracks, spread out over five CDs, tracing the complete postwar recordings of Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. These sides [more]

This CD features a logical combination of two talented Frenchmen, violinist {Stéphane Grappelli} and pianist Michel Petrucciani, who had never recorded together [more]

A typical European hot club jazz outfit featured violin backed by guitar and bass, with no drums. Chief among these players was Stephane Grappelli, who often worked with Django [more]

Bireli Lagrene has been so indelibly associated with the Gypsy guitar style of Django Reinhardt since the early '80s, and has recorded within that well-defined niche so often, that [more]

Delmark Records is more than an institution in the jazz and blues world. Founder and owner Bob Koester celebrated 55 years by issuing two collections of seminal blues and jazz [more]

The Christian Jacob Trio plays a well-conceived and brilliantly executed -- and long overdue by the jazz community -- to the [more]

Guitarists Jean-Jacques "Boulou" and {Elie "Elios" Ferré} are descended from a long line of musically inclined French Gypsies, and were raised as prodigies by their father [more]

Violinists {Stéphane Grappelli} and Stuff Smith performed together on a few occasions, but this 1965 studio session, first issued by Barclay, was one of the more [more]

There is something carefree and joyful about the music of Django Reinhardt; something that comes bubbling to the surface every time he begins a wild run of notes on his acoustic [more]

It's obvious that this CD was marketed to the classical crowd first by its packaging and use of CBS rather than the Columbia label. Don't let that [more]

Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest jazz guitarists of all-time. His story is remarkable, for not only was he an illiterate gypsy from [more]