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The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc 1: 1. All The Things You Are 2. La Ronde 3. Vendome 4. Rose Of The Rio Grande 5. The Queen's Fancy 6. Delaunay's Dilema 7. Autumn In New York 8. But Not For Me 9. In A Sentimental Mood 10. The Stopper 11. Almost Like Being In love 12. No Moe 13. Django 14. One Bass Hit 15. Milano 16. La Ronde Suite 17. Ralph's New Blues 18. All Of You. Disc 2: 1. I'll Remember April 2. Gershwin Medley (Soon/For You, For Me, For Evermore/Love Walked In/Love Is Here To Stay) 3. Concorde 4. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 5. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 6. The Cylinder 7. Really True Blues 8. The Golden Striker 9. Odds Against Tomorrow 10. The Jasmine Tree 11. Bags' Groove 12. Django 13. Django. Disc 3: 1. The Jasmine Tree 2. Odds Against Tomorrow 3. The Cylinder 4. The Martyr 5. Really True Blues 6. Monterey Mist 7. Bags' New Groove 8. Woody'n You 9. Echoes 10. The Watergate Blues 11. The Hornpipe 12. Connie's Blues. Disc 4: 1. Sacha's March 2. That Slavic Smile 3. Reunion Blues 4. D And E (Take 5) 5. Rockin' In Rhythm (Take 16) 6. Valeria 7. Le Cannet 8. Nature Boy 9. Milano 10. Topsy 11. D And E (Re-Take 1)

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings

Read "The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert

The Modern Jazz Quartet may best be remembered for bringing a heightened sense of respectability to jazz – the coattails and gentlemanly demeanor helped bring the music from smoky clubs to concert halls and thus to a wider audience. The concept the MJQ employed – fusing a classical sense of composition to basic jazz improvisation – ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Preludes and Postludes: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings

Read "Preludes and Postludes: The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki

The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings (Prestige) may seem a curious collection to certain MJQ fans. It’s a bookend compilation, with 54 remastered tracks from their 1952 – ’55 Prestige recordings near the beginning, and from their 1981 – ’85 Pablo recordings near the end, of their 48-year, illustrious and elegant ...

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Music Inn

Read "The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Music Inn" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon

...in our desire for beauty in all things we are open, and one in our search for that little city of gold where the flute-player never wearies, and the spring never fades, and the oracle is not silent, that little city which is the house of art, and where, with all the Music of the Spheres, ...

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Modern Jazz Quartet: Four Dapper Dans Who Weren't Button Down

Read "Modern Jazz Quartet: Four Dapper Dans Who Weren't Button Down" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor

The Modern Jazz Quartet Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings Prestige 2003 Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond were busy trading in the irregular time signatures that made their album’s staples in college student jazz collections the country over. Chico Hamilton had the lock on chamber jazz popularity on ...

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Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music

Read "Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...

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Collaboration

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Silver, Trieste, Valeria, Fugue In A Minor, One Note Samba, Foi A Saudad, Concierto de Aranguez

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European Concert

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Label M
Released: 2001
Track listing: Django, Bluesology, I Should Care, La Ronde, I Remember Clifford, Festival Sketch, Vendome, Odds Against Tomorrow, Pyramid (Blues For Junior), It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Skating In Central Park, The Cylinder, 'Round Midnight, Bags' Groove, I'll Remember April.


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