You won't find any newly discovered Reinhardt treasures here, just a lovingly compiled overview of his best work. This lavish eight-volume set presents the great gypsy guitarist in the prime of a glorious 17-year career that not even the guns of World War II could silence. It includes two of his greatest triumphs - the nights he fronted an all-star US band and the great Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Completists will also hanker for his early masterpieces, recorded between 1928 and the early-1930s, as reissued in a boxed set by Frémaux on his centenary two years ago, and possibly also the Essential Jazz Classics double-disc Django Plays the Blues, but there is plenty of magnificent Hot Club music here, starting from the year he met up with master violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

Until the war their careers ran in triumphant parallel, two very different players perfectly matched. Their almost telepathic musical understanding eclipsed that of their early mentors from across the Atlantic, Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang. Even today a persuasive case could be made for Django remaining the only European to influence the jazz mainstream to a significant degree, certainly on his instrument. When Django died in 1953, the advent of bebop and post-bop had already overtaken swing in many respects, yet his music lives on, with Hot Club-style revivalists at work in the US and other unlikely places. More to the point, the visceral attack of every Django solo set an example to the entire guitar world, opening the gates for players of every style to consider their axe a front-line instrument. That's his greatest legacy.