Django (composition)

"Django"
Instrumental by the Modern Jazz Quartet
from the album
  • Modern Jazz Quartet, Vol. 2
  • Django
Released
  • 1955
  • 1956
RecordedDecember 23, 1954
GenreJazz
Length7:03
Composer(s)John Lewis
Producer(s)Bob Weinstock

"Django" is a 1954 jazz standard written by John Lewis as a tribute to the Belgian-born jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was a signature composition of the Modern Jazz Quartet, of which Lewis was the pianist and musical director.