Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings (2003)

About this title: In typical Fantasy Records aplomb, this four-CD set collects the eight albums which the Modern Jazz Quartet either mentored or collaborated on during their tenure at the commencement and nadir of their reign as jazz's premier chamber ensemble. Beginning with the 1952 issue of Modern Jazz Quartet/Milt Jackson Quintet recording (the earlier Milt Jackson Quartet sides are not here for obvious reasons, as the band did not commence its fully developed form on them) featuring original drummer Kenny Clarke before Connie Kay replaced him, and ending with This One's For Basie in 1985; the association ... read more

Tracks:

1. All the Things You Are [Hammerstein/Kern]
2. La Ronde [Lewis]
3. Vendome [Lewis]
4. Rose of the Rio Grande [Gorman/Leslie/Warre]
5. The Queen's Fancy [Lewis]
6. Delaunay's Dilemma [Lewis]
7. Autumn in New York [Duke]
8. But Not for Me [Gershwin/Gershwin]
9. In a Sentimental Mood [Ellington/Kurtz/Mil]
10. The Stopper [Rollins]
11. Almost Like Being in Love [Lerner/Loewe]
12. No Moe [Rollins]
13. Django [Lewis]
14. One Bass Hit [Brown/Fuller/Gilles]
15. Milano [Lewis]
16. La Ronde Suite [Lewis]
17. Ralph's New Blues [Jackson]
18. All of You [Porter]
19. I'll Remember April [Raye/DePaul/Johnsto]
20. Gershwin Medley: Soon/For You, For Me, Forevermore/Love Walked ... [Gershwin/Gershwin]
21. Concorde [Lewis]
22. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise [Romberg/Hammerstein]
23. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise [Live] [Romberg/Hammerstein]
24. The Cylinder [Live] [Jackson]
25. Really True Blues [Live] [Jackson]
26. The Golden Striker [Live] [Lewis]
27. Odds Against Tomorrow [Live] [Lewis]
28. The Jasmine Tree [Live] [Lewis]
29. Bags' Groove [Live] [Jackson]
30. Django [Live] [Lewis]
31. Django [Live] [Lewis]
32. The Jasmine Tree [Live] [Lewis]
33. Odds Against Tomorrow [Live] [Lewis]
34. The Cylinder [Live] [Jackson]
35. The Martyr [Live] [Jackson]
36. Really True Blues [Live] [Jackson]
37. Monterey Mist [Live] [Jackson]
38. Bags' New Groove [Live] [Jackson]
39. Woody 'N You [Live] [Gillespie]
40. Echoes [Jackson]
41. The Watergate Blues [Heath]
42. The Hornpipe [Lewis]
43. Connie's Blues [Jackson]
44. Sacha's March [Lewis]
45. That Slavic Smile [Lewis]
46. Reunion Blues [Jackson]
47. D and E [Take 5, Alternate] [Lewis]
48. Rockin' in Rhythm [Take 16] [Ellington/Mills/Car]
49. Valeria [Lewis]
50. Le Cannet [Lewis]
51. Nature Boy [Ahbez]
52. Milano [Lewis]
53. Topsy [Battle/Durham]
54. D and E [Re-Take 1, Master] [Lewis]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.