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Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida: Collaboration

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by AAJ Staff

In the CD jacket notes, Label M founder Joel Dorn informally, as is his wont, tells the buyers of Collaboration that it is one of his two favorite Modern Jazz Quartet recordings. The other is European Concert. Now, both albums have been re-released, and Dorn's perseverance and dedication to the highest level of jazz ...

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The Modern Jazz Quartet: European Concert

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by AAJ Staff

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. Listed as one of the favorite ...

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Django

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1999

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Modern Jazz Quartet: Django

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by Douglas Payne

The longevity, popularity and surprising durability of the Modern Jazz Quartet is striking upon listening to Django , the group's very first full-length LP. Recorded at various times between 1953 and 1955, it introduces what amounts to Dizzy Gillespie's big band rhythm section, with pianist John Lewis (b. 1920), bassist Percy Heath (b. 1923, who replaced ...

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The Complete Last Concert

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 1974
Track listing: Disc One: Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise; The Cylinder; Summertime; Really True Blues; What's New?; Blues in A Minor; Confirmation; 'Round Midnight; A Night in Tunisia; Tears from the Children; Blues in H (B); England's Carol.

Disc Two: The Golden Striker; One Never Knows; Trav'lin'; Skating in Central Park; The Legendary Profile; Concierto de Aranjuez; The Jasmine Tree; In Memoriam; Django; Bags' Groove.

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Space

By Modern Jazz Quartet

Label: Apple Jazz Records
Released: 1969
Track listing: \Visitor from Venus; Visitor from Mars; Here's That Rainy Day; Dilemma; Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez.


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