- Minor Swing is a 1937 gypsy jazz tune written by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli and first recorded by their group, the Quintette du Hot Club de France.
- It was released as a single on the Swing label (No. 23) with the recording dated 25 November 1937.
- The tune is in A minor and features a repeating sequence of chord changes rather than a fixed melody, with a brief introduction and a coda that frame improvisation.
- It is considered one of Reinhardt’s signature compositions and a swing-era jazz standard, famous for the virtuosic interplay between guitar and violin.
- The piece remains influential and widely recorded, with critics like Wynton Marsalis calling it essential to jazz.
