Django

Modern Jazz Quartet · 1955

Context

John Lewis composed this theme in 1954 as a tribute to Django Reinhardt, who had died the year before. The track became a signature piece of the Modern Jazz Quartet: bassist Percy Heath said the group would have been in trouble for not playing it in concert. Miles Davis considered it one of the best compositions. It appears on the NPR 100 list.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Third stream, Cool (Birth of the Cool). Among the origins and influences of Third stream: Cool (Birth of the Cool).

By the same artist

• Concorde (1955)
• Fontessa (1956)
• One Never Knows (1958)

Sources

• EN: Django (composition)
• EN: Django (album)

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