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Django (ver. 1) by John Lewis - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
Django is an album by The Modern Jazz Quartet, first released on LP in 1956. The actual sessions for the LP took place in June 1953, December 1954, and January 1955, and (as label Prestige Records had yet to enter the LP era) were first released on two different ten-inch discs. The first session (consisting of "The Queen's Fancy", "Delauney's Dilemma" and "Autumn In New York") took place in New York, but the subsequent Hackensack, New Jersey, sessions were engineered by Rudy Van Gelder; and eventually the whole album was reissued in 2006 as part of the Rudy Van Gelder Remasters collection. The song "Django" (like the other original material on this album) was composed by the group's pianist and musical director, John Lewis. It is one of his best-known compositions, written in memory of the French/Belgian gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt. One other apostrophic tune is "Delauney's Dilemma", a.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
John Aaron Lewis (3 May 1920 – 29 March 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Born in LaGrange, Illinois and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he learned classical music and piano from his mother starting at the age of seven. He continued his musical training at the University of New Mexico and also studied anthropology. He served in the Army in World War II. While stationed in France on a three-year tour of duty, he met and performed with Kenny Clarke. Clarke was an early developer of the bop style and Lewis composed and arranged for a band he and Clarke organized. Lewis returned from service in 1945 and resumed his university studies. In the fall however, he went to New York where he found work in 52nd Street clubs with Allen Eager, Hot Lips Page and others. After that year, he joined Dizzy Gillespie's bop-style big band where Clarke was the drummer. Lewis developed his skill further by composing and arranging for the band as well as attending the Manhattan School of Music. In January 1948, the band made a concert tour of Europe, interrupting Lewis' studies. Lewis.
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