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| | The Modern Jazz Quartet |
 | | The MJQ was formed in 1952; its first recording was the 10-inch Prestige album, | | | The Modern Jazz Quartet were incredibly important in the development of jazz in the 1950s, and although they officially disbanded in 1974, they’ve reformed for both concerts and recordings several times since then, making them now an “evergreen” jazz band. | | | They were in the forefront of the movement to take jazz out of smoky clubs and recreate it in a concert setting – which went a long way toward “legitimizing” a form of music which many still considered disreputable and unfit for polite company. |
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| | Modern Jazz Quartet -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | popular musical form in which modern jazz improvisation is accompanied by the bass lines, drumming styles, and instrumentation of rock music, with a strong emphasis on electronic instruments and dance rhythms. | | | Includes a history of the development of jazz, audio samples, biographies of significant artists, and an introduction to the basic elements of music. | | | American musical ensemble noted for delicate percussion sonorities, innovations in jazz forms, and consistently high performance standards sustained over a long career. |
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| | The Modern Jazz Quartet European Concert |
| | Perhaps that was because of the integrity of the quartet, which played the music it believed in and didn't condescend to the listeners or expect them to hear simplification of the music. | | | Ironically, The Modern Jazz Quartet's European Concert album finally is released on CD for the first time just before the passing of the third member of the legendary group, reducing the survivors to one: Percy Heath, who also is a member of one of the leading family triumvirates in jazz. | | | It was already acknowledged as a unique voice in jazz and one that brought in new listeners as they paid attention to the group's music, the combination of jazz and blues with a classical sensibility gaining ever more respect wherever they played. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Modern Jazz Quartet |
| | Throughout its long career the MJQ has also performed and recorded much third-stream music, combining techniques of European art music and jazz improvisation. | | | The original members of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) — Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano and director), Ray Brown (double bass), and Kenny Clarke (drums) &; first performed together in 1946 in Dizzy Gillespie's big band. | | | By virtue of its recordings and international concert tours the MJQ soon acquired a reputation as a superior jazz ensemble. |
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| | Amazon.com: Django: Music |
| | Like all great jazz, this album is as meaningful as any music can be. | | | Smooth jazz is a joke next to this album. | | | This is, with "Fontessa", the most celebrated of the original MJQ recordings, and rightly so. |
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| | CMT.com : The Modern Jazz Quartet : Biography |
| | The MJQ has long displayed John Lewis' musical vision, making jazz seem respectable by occasionally interacting with classical ensembles and playing concerts at prestigious venues, but always leaving plenty of space for bluesy and swinging improvising. | | | In 1981 Jackson relented and the Modern Jazz Quartet (which has recorded further albums for Pablo and Atlantic) became active again although on a more part-time basis. | | | They next came together in 1951, recording as the Milt Jackson Quartet. |
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| | Oldies.com : Modern Jazz Quartet |
| | This album is paired with a blues-based live set from The Modern Jazz Quartet, recorded at a Manhattan School of Music benefit at Carnegie Hall in 1967. | | | Originally released in 1957, "With Thelonious Monk" is one of the rare instances where this legendary pianist recorded as a sideman, sharing billing on the album with Blakey. | | | Here is a portrait on four discs, spanning the years 1952 to 1985, of the Modern Jazz Quartet at the beginning and near the end of their reign. |
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| | MODERN JAZZ QUARTET : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | MODERN JAZZ QUARTET : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music | | | Kay was a key member of the Atlantic house band early-to-mid-'50s, playing on many R&B hits and later played on early Van Morrison albums; his delicacy and precision in the MJQ confirmed him as a first-class all- rounder. | | | Other LPs: with Sonny Rollins at Music Inn '58, compilation Pyramid '59, Third Stream Music '59 (with Beaux Arts String Quartet, Gunther Schuller cond.), two-disc European Concert '60 (originally on single LPs), LP with large orchestra '60 cond. |
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| | the Modern Jazz Quartet,shortly MJQ, in Olavi Huuska's record collection, updated August 2003 |
| | The Modern Jazz Quartet, shortly MJQ, was the most long-lived and one of the most succesful jazzgroups.Its roots were in the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band in the end of 40's. | | | Outside MJQ his works include film music, solo pianist and director of music festivals and music schools. | | | In December MJQ meant already the Modern Jazz Quartet, which recorded for Prestige on 22nd December 1952, record number 4. |
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| | Not-So-Modern Jazz Quartet Plus |
| | When a piano is unavailable, the quartet substitutes a rhythm guitar. | | | It faithfully reproduces this music with top local jazz musicians. | | | The basic quartet is made up of clarinet, bass, piano and drums. |
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| | Percy Heath -- bassist for Modern Jazz Quartet |
| | The MJQ had its genesis in the Gillespie big band. | | | Playing in a restrained and conservative bop style that had a classical structure and formality, the MJQ's sound was considered the epitome of sophistication. | | | Elegantly attired during their performances in suits or tuxedoes, they easily could have been mistaken for a classical string quartet except that their music really swung. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Concorde: Music |
| | The Modern Jazz Quartet are one of the most successful jazz groups in musical history with their easy going mix of cool jazz and sub-European classical tones finding an eager audience. | | | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. | | | The Last Concert; Audio CD ~ Modern Jazz Quartet (Artist) |
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| | Best Modern Jazz Quartet Albums - Jazz Bulletin Board |
| | The only MJQ I've heard so far is Lonely Woman, but I can vouch that it is a great album. | | | Don't forget the Last Concert album from the 70s - a great record with excellent performances of some of their most memorable material. | | | And this one, which is one of the 1st jazz LPs I bought with my own pocket money as a kid: |
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| | NPR : The Modern Jazz Quartet: 'Django' |
| | There was the Cool Jazz movement, and the West Coast sound, which was formal, somewhat European, and very composed music, without a lot of heavy emotion. | | | There were a lot of divergent points in jazz in 1954, when this was recorded. | | | But here is someone who has taken the approach that no, we will play the music with dignity that serious music ought to have. |
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| | The Modern Jazz Quartet News |
| | One of the significant independent jazz labels of the 50s and 60s was Prestige Records, founded in NYC in 1949 by former record store owner Bob Weinstock. | | | About 20 years ago, the venerable Modern Jazz Quartet graced a downtown Hartford church with a concert that mixed classical chamber music with soulful blues. | | | Prestige This attractive, four-CD box set brings together recordings from the beginning of the MJQ's career with others made immediately after their... |
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| | The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Comedy: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | This is the type of album that led many bop purists to criticize The Modern Jazz Quartet [+] (and John Lewis [+] in particular) for being overly influenced by Western classical music. | | | The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Comedy: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more | | | The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Comedy: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more |
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| | JAZCLASS : About JOHN LEWIS (p.2) - Jazz pianist, composer, Modern Jazz Quartet band (MJQ) leader |
| | The title is a reference to the members of the group, 2 musicians from the East Coast Jazz scene : John Lewis and Percy Heath, and 3 from the West Coast : Chico Hamilton, Bill Perkins, and Jim Hall (24 bit remastered CD in 2001, released by Toshiba/EMI - TOCJ-9353). | | | The MJQ in Concert - May '60 (Jazz Life 2673792 - 2 CD set) | | | The Modern Jazz Society presents A Concert of Contemporary Music - Mar.'55 (NORGRAN label MGN-1040) John Lewis with Stan Getz, Tony Scott (playing under the name of Anthony Sciacca), J. Johnson, Gunther Schuller, Percy Heath, Connie Kay, and Lucky Thompson. |
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| | NPR : The Modern Jazz Quartet: 'The Comedy' |
| | HORWITZ: The CD is by The Modern Jazz Quartet, and it's called The Comedy. | | | The result is an album of great range and beauty that has really stood the test of time. | | | Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and today, we're inducting into the NPR Basic Jazz Record Library an excursion into the past... |
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| | Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium: Pitchfork Review |
| | He’s not the only top-drawer jazzbo making serious use of electronica; more and more bands are mixing the acoustic with the electric and the improvised with the processed, from labelmates Spring Heel Jack to the glitched-up fusion of Norway’s Jaga Jazzist. | | | Last year, pianist Matthew Shipp stomped across the college charts with the funked up Nu-Bop, a jazz album augmented with beats and synths. | | | But instead of pushing the electronics and making a funkier, nastier successor to his hit, this new disc feels like nothing so much as the Modern Jazz Quartet. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Modern Jazz Quartet: Music |
| | Don't start your MJQ collection here, but it's just something to listen to on a rainy day, after you have gotten to know The MJQ's style. | | | It had classics like Bluesology, DandE, Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise, and a good swingin song, which I never heard ever again in the MJQ's history, Milt Meets Sid, which is probally the best song on here. | | | Together they create perfect bop blues on "Bluesology" and the medium-tempo "Love Me, Pretty Baby," and shimmering lyricism on "Yesterdays" and Sigmund Romberg's "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise," then an unusual tune for a jazz group. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django |
| | When you first listen to MJQ, you expect a horn to kick in and take over because this is a band that is made up of instruments normally relegated to the rhythm section. | | | They usually provide a solid music foundation for featured artists to solo in directions unknown; however, these instruments all rise to the forefront of the band and are just as capable of capturing your attention and imagination. | | | Django is one of those albums that's so good it's part of that pantheon of essential jazz recordings along the likes of Kind of Blue, A Love Supreme, Time Out, and Headhunters. |
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| | MODERN JAZZ QUARTET! Pristine 1962 Atlantic Whitel Labe Promo LP Signed by All Four!! (SOLD!!!) |
| | This great LP ("The Modern Jazz Quartet Volume 2 European Concert" Atalntic ATL 1386 mono, white label promo "sample copy - not for sale" released 1962) has been signed by all four next to their pictures on the FRONT; Percy Heath, Connie Kaye, Milt Jackson & John Lewis. | | | The album and jacket are both pristine except that the original owner has written his name on the back. | | | Although we are still temporarily living outside of New Orleans, we have made a return trip to New Orleans and have brought back much of our stock, ALL IN PERFECT CONDITION! |
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| | Rolling Stone review of the album that marked the Modern Jazz Quartet's return to the Atlantic label. | | | Webpage by Olavi Huuska dedicated to MJQ record collection, includes a profile and discography. | | | Micheal Furstner's Jaz Class profile of Jazz pianist, composer, and MJQ band leader, includes a chronology, bibliography and discography. |
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| | Rolling Stone : John Lewis Dies |
| | Lewis and the MJQ were among jazz's most enduring units, performing and recording prolifically between 1952 and 1974, and again when they reunited in 1981. | | | The quartet reunited in 1981 and continued to perform and record into the Nineties. | | | The MJQ's twenty-two year-run ended in 1974 when Milt Jackson pulled out, citing limitations on his work as a soloist within the band's arrangements. |
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| | Fred Griffin Modern Jazz Quartet |
| | He currently plays in his own group "Fred Griffin Modern Jazz Quartet." Fred has recently recorded his first CD titled "Intimate Strangers" under the Carpet Cat Record Label. | | | Fred Griffin is a jazz musician based in Southern California. | | | His past accomplishments include winning a nationwide talent search that resulted in opening for the rock group "The Eagles". |
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