Continental Jazz: Best Sellers

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]

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]

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]