Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings (2003) more music like this

by The Modern Jazz Quartet

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 ...

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Kansas City Breaks (1982) more music like this

by The John Lewis Group [DRG]

The music on this LP has been reissued several times since its initial release. This was the last record by John Lewis' sextet before it broke up; at the time the Modern Jazz Quartet was beginning to appear again on a fulltime basis. Lewis picked an interesting variety of sidemen (flutist Frank Wess, violinist Joe Kennedy, guitarist Howard Collins ...

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Echoes (1984) more music like this

by The Modern Jazz Quartet

If proof were needed that The Modern Jazz Quartet was back together permanently after a seven-year hiatus (1974-81), it is this CD for the six selections were all fairly new (as opposed to more runthroughs of their earlier hits). Pianist John Lewis contributed three compositions (including the appealing "That Slavic Smile" and "Sacha's March"), ...

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