Taking its name from a famous Parisian cafe/nightclub, Quintette du Hot Club de France is still lauded by jazz historians as the greatest European jazz band. With its revolutionary lineup fronted by legendary Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910–'53), the French violinist Stephane Grappelli (1908–'97) and two acoustic rhythm guitars played by Django's brother, Joseph and Roger Chaput and the double bass of Louis Vola, the Quintette applied a previously unheard of chugging, string-fuelled...