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]