Django-Shift should be listened to alongside Diminishing Blackness, the splendid Cherry Red Records boxset that emphasised Reinhardt the composer. Narratives around Reinhardt perhaps focus too often on the Hot Club Scene, his ethnic heritage or simply his stunning virtuosity, but rarely do they focus on Django's compositional skills. Abbasi, like Reinhardt, has also taken a rich journey across different cultures, but Shift's focus remains tight on the structure of a Reinhardt song and Abbasi only subtly brings his subcontinental influences to bear. Instead, his starting point is always the song. Abbasi revels in seducing fresh lines from melodies we thought we knew so well, for example bringing a Monk-ish twist to ‘Diminishing Blackness’. But Abbasi can also play it straight as on ‘Django's Castle’, smoochsome brushwork and all. We expect the breakdown, the re-shaping, but it never comes as the song sits serenely in a sweet pocket.

To some ears Abbasi can be a little affected, a little over complex: his love of a quirksome time signatures can over-knot the sheer swing power of Django as on ‘Swing 42’. But even that has its own fascination. Yes, the vibe is more concert hall-clean than Gitanes-clouded nightclub, but again that feels a deliberate choice by Abbasi in his pledge to bring Reinhardt's works into a contemporary context.