For me, one of the great joys of the DVD era is the seemingly unending supply of rare film of vintage jazz performances now being discovered and re-released in the form of documentaries and compilations.
One of the best of these I have seen, released at some point last year but only recently made available here on Decca, is Stephane Grappelli: A Life In The Jazz Century.
It isn't flawless. Grappelli - who died in 1997 at the age of 89 - made too much music in the course of a 77-year career for everything to be covered, but I would have expected at least some attention to be paid to the important 1966 Violin Summit collaboration with Stuff Smith, Svend Asmussen and Jean-Luc Ponty, and to his work with mandolinist David Grisman.
Conversely, his brief performance at Ronnie Scott's with a teenage Nigel Kennedy - or Kennedy as he now prefers to be known - gets considerably more space than it deserves.
On the other hand, the filmmakers did manage to get some illuminating interview footage of the great classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin, with whom Grappelli formed a worthwhile partnership in the 1970s. Three of the best guitarists to collaborate with him late in his career - Diz Disley, John Etheridge, and Martin Taylor - also have interesting things to say.
Perhaps the best thing about the two-disc set, though, is, as the blurb on the box proclaims, that it contains 'all known film footage of Django Reinhardt', including seven minutes of previously unavailable snippets from Hot Club de France performances.