Django By Modern Jazz Quartet

This 4 CD collection captures MJQ's complete output for the Atlantic label from their inception through to the end of 1960 - for many, nay most, the golden era of the mighty Modern Jazz Quartet's sublime and extraordinary music.

Digitally remastered four CD set containing eight albums from the Jazz greats: Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet, An Exceptional Encounter (with Ben Webster), Django, Concorde, Fontessa, Third Stream Music, Odds Against Tomorrow, and Pyramid.

Digitally remastered four CD set containing eight albums from the Jazz greats: Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet, An Exceptional Encounter (with Ben Webster), Django, Concorde, Fontessa, Third Stream Music, Odds Against Tomorrow, and Pyramid.

Digitally remastered by JVC using XRCD (Extended Resolution Compact Disc) technology. Refined, supremely accomplished, and possessed of a unique sound (courtesy of Milt Jackson's shimmering vibes), the Modern Jazz Quartet set a new standard for the jazz group as chamber ensemble. ...

Track Listing: How High The Moon; DJango; Animal Dance; Bluesology; Midsummer; TYhe Comedy;

Recorded live in Scandinavia in April 1960. Originally released on Atlantic (2-603). Includes liner notes by Joel Dorn and Jule Foster. Digitally remastered by Gene Paul (DB Plus Digital Services, New York, New York). Long considered one of, if not the classic ...

Originally released in 1973, THE ART OF THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: THE ATLANTIC YEARS is a two-LP compilation set that neatly covers the nearly two-decade run that the MJQ had on Atlantic Records, the label they helped to establish as ...

Recording information: RCA Studio, NY (03/16/1987-02/03/1988). Photographer: Christian Steiner . Personnel: John Richard Lewis (piano); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Connie Kay (drums, percussion). Liner Note Authors: Gary Giddins; Leonard Feather.

UK two CD release, a brilliant overview of the Modern Jazz Quartet's career, spanning three decades and featuring the very best of their output for Atlantic. 26 tracks total. Warner. Arranger: Raymond Fol. Personnel: Jim Hall (guitar); Jimmy Giuffre (clarinet); Sonny Rollins ...

A date matching The MJQ with the New York Chamber Symphony. ~ Ron Wynn Recording information: Atlantic Studios, New York, NY (03/16/1987-03/20/1987); RCA Studios, NY (03/16/1987-03/20/1987). Photographer: Christian Steiner . Unknown Contributor Role: The Modern Jazz Quartet. Personnel: John Lewis (piano); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); ...

This bootleg LP is for the true Modern Jazz Quartet fanatic. It contains seven selections taken from Jan. 1955 Birdland radio broadcasts. The recording quality is just so-so but the playing by the classic group (which at the time still ...

Digitally remastered, 3 albums on 2 CDs: Django (1956), Fontessa (1956) and Concorde (1955). 21 tracks total. Personnel: John Lewis (piano); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Percy Heath (double bass); Connie Kay, Kenny Clarke (drums). Recording information: Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, NY (01/22/1956-02/14/1956); ...

Recorded live at Avery Fisher Hall, New York on November 25, 1974. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff. This two-disc live set features the Modern Jazz Quartet in its final concert (at New York City's Lincoln Center in 1974). Though the ...

Recording information: Hackensack, NJ (06/16/1954-01/09/1955); New York, NY (06/16/1954-01/09/1955). Personnel: Henry Boozier (trumpet); John G. Lewis, Horace Silver (piano); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Kenny Clarke (drums). Liner Note Author: William Hogeland.

This is a strong recording from the Modern Jazz Quartet, with inventive versions of John Lewis' "Vendome," Ray Brown's "Pyramid," Jim Hall's "Romaine," and Lewis' famous "Django," along with cooking jams on "How High the Moon" and "It Don't Mean ...

This is a strong recording from the Modern Jazz Quartet, with inventive versions of John Lewis' "Vendome," Ray Brown's "Pyramid," Jim Hall's "Romaine," and Lewis' famous "Django," along with cooking jams on "How High the Moon" and "It Don't Mean ...

Digitally remastered by JVC using XRCD (Extended Resolution Compact Disc) technology. Refined, supremely accomplished, and possessed of a unique sound (courtesy of Milt Jackson's shimmering vibes), the Modern Jazz Quartet set a new standard for the jazz group as chamber ensemble. ...

2006 UK-only compilation for this popular Jazz outfit. Features 11 tracks including 'Django', 'Over The Rainbow', 'I Loves You Porgy' and more. WSM. Personnel: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); John Richard Lewis (piano, harpsichord); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Connie Kay (drums). Liner Note Author: ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: Stardust; Soon One Mornin' (Death Come A-Creepin' in My Room); Memphis Blues; Livery Stable Blues; Charleston (South Carolina); Chimes Blues; Backwater Blues; Pearls, The; Dead Man Blues; Wild Cat Blues; Cake Walking Babies from Home; Sugar ...

Recorded between 1952-1955. Includes liner notes by Orrin Keepnews. Digitally remastered by Ed Michel (1986, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). Culled from the group's early-to-mid-1950s material for the Prestige label, ARTISTRY presents the Modern Jazz Quartet honing its stately aesthetic while still acknowledging ...

Recorded live in Europe in 1958. Includes liner notes by Herman Lara. The Modern Jazz Quartet is well documented on a number of outstanding labels, though there is only sketchy information about the background of this particular CD. Recorded in 1958 ...

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this classic 1960 album from the Jazz greats. Wax Time. This is a strong recording from the Modern Jazz Quartet, with inventive versions of John Lewis' "Vendome," Ray Brown's "Pyramid," Jim Hall's "Romaine," and Lewis' ...

Recorded live at Avery Fisher Hall, New York on November 25, 1974. Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff. This two-disc live set features the Modern Jazz Quartet in its final concert (at New York City's Lincoln Center in 1974). Though the ...

Regarding this 1960 live date, recorded in Slovenia, group leader John Lewis writes in the album liner notes, "In my opinion, never before or since has the Modern Jazz Quartet played better, whether on stage or in the recording studio." ...

As part of their 40th anniversary, the Modern Jazz Quartet welcomed ten guest artists to their Celebration CD: Bobby McFerrin (brilliant on "Billie's Bounce"), Take 6, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis (who gets to show off his technique on "Cherokee"), Illinois ...