John Lewis quote about Django Reinhardt

"The first time I heard Django Reinhardt... was during the war, in
France, on a record on a jukebox in a bar... where I was stationed,
and it was a duet with Django and Bill Coleman, and I was so impressed
with that.... After that I met him. He came to this country to play
with Duke Ellington in concert [in late 1946] but he spent a lot of
the time down -- I was working with Dizzy then.... [Django] came down
and stayed with us most times.... We had to throw him out once...
'Look, your concert's on, man, you're supposed to be on up at Carnegie
Hall [with Ellington].' He was amazing, and when he died I was very
hurt by that and sorry." -- John Lewis (to Billy Taylor)
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