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The modern jazz quartet s version of fontessa lewis from their album fontessa. They only made a few albums for pablo in the mid80s before returning to. For the majority of their career, the group was composed of john lewis piano and musical director, milt jackson vibraphone, percy heath double bass and connie kay drums. Concorde is a notable album in the career of the modern jazz quartet for a few reasons. Various of the members had played together backing other artists such as dizzy gillespie and ray brown, and in jacksons own quartet. As such, we can look at concorde as both a classic mjq album and a record that pushed jazz forward. Recorded at van gelder studio, hackensack, nj, on 22 january 1956.
Jul 12, 2011 the modern jazz quartet had an original concept, exploiting two musical traditions in a very specific way. Tight, understated, crisp intelligent jazz by incredibly sophisticated musicians. It was the first of their albums released on atlantic. Like many classical composers, lewis enjoyed writing music on themes from traditional theater, composing a series of sketches of the stock characters from the commedia dellarte.
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It was the first of many classic albums that the mjq would release over their long and celebrated career. The modern jazz quartet the complete atlantic studio recordings of the modern jazz quartet 195664 mosaic records 2011 even now, nearly sixty years later, it seems improbable that a group which came together as the rhythm section for one of the hottest players in bebops genesis era, trumpeter dizzy gillespie, could morph into a standalone group that was the epitome of grace. The lp soon showed why it was the perfect format for jazz, as classic after classic would soon be released in the following decade, a period that would become known as the golden age of modern jazz. Laurindo almeida with the modern jazz quartet duration. Seeing and hearing the modern jazz quartet in full operation, i realize why i revolt at mick jaggers incessant strutting and undeserved arrogance. The best of the modern jazz quartet pablo by the modern.
Modern jazz quartet the modern jazz quartet mjq was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. The modern jazz quartet captivated jazz and classical audiences until the death of drummer connie kay in. Modern jazz quartet american music group britannica. Seminal and longlived 19521974 jazz ensemble which grew out of the rhythm section of the dizzy gillespie orchestra and had its first incarnation as the milt jackson quartet in 1951. While john lewis versailles and an 11minute fontessa show the seriousness of the group and the influence of western classical music, other pieces such as bluesology, woody n you and a pair of ballads look toward the groups roots in bop and permit the band to swing hard.
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