From Wikipedia: 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 Queens Fancy, Delauneys 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 groups 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 Delauneys Dilemma, a jaunty tribute to a French jazz critic. The lengthy La Ronde Suite, with discrete sections emphasizing each group members contributions, is in fact a version of the standard Two Bass Hit, written by Lewis for Dizzy Gillespie and covered by, among others, Miles Davis on Milestones. Confusingly, Gillespies own tune, One Bass Hit, is also included as a feature for bassist Percy Heath. Vibraphonist Milt Bags Jackson can famously be heard grunting and humming throughout the quieter numbers, which include covers of the Gershwins But Not For Me and the Vernon Duke standard Autumn In New York.youtu.be/zLjjN2zovRU
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