Modern Jazz Quartet: Complete Recordings

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  • Label: LoneHillJazz
  • Order number: 1083930
  • Release date: 6.3.2008
  1. 1 A fugue for music inn Start
  2. 2 Serenade Start
  3. 3 Fun Start
  4. 4 Da capo Start
  5. 5 Fine Start
  6. 6 Blues in E flat Start
  7. 7 In a mellotone Start
  8. 8 The quiet time Start
  9. 9 Body and soul Start
  10. 10 Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess Start
  11. 11 Two degrees east, three degrees west Start
  12. 12 Variation No. 1 on "God rest ye merry gentlemen" Start
+ Jimmy Giuffre

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Featuring: The Modern Jazz Quartet, Jimmy Giuffre, Rex Stewart, Herbie Mann, Connie Kay, Oscar Pettiford...

An important compilation bringing together all the mid-50’s material recorded by The Modern Jazz Quartet and Jimmy Giuffre - featuring tracks from the Atlantic album “The Modern Jazz Quartet At Music Inn” (1956), some MJQ/Giuffre Trio collaborations on a Third Stream Music anthology and all of the Atlantic album : “Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn” also recorded in 1956 in Lennox, Massachusetts. This latter recording appears on CD for the first time.

The first three tracks (Fun, A Fugue for Music Inn, and Serenade) correspond to the MJQ’s first disc with Giuffre as the guest soloist on clarinet.

The following two songs ("Da Capo" and "Finé") belonged to an anthology dedicated to Third Stream music that introduces an interesting fusion of two bands, the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Jimmy Giuffre Trio.

The third group of songs (Blues In E-Flat, In A Mellotone, The Quiet Time, and Body And Soul) correspond to the four extended version recorded during the celebrated concert at the Music Inn on August 28, 1956. The MJQ does not perform here, even though all of the tracks have a common denominator: the MJQ’s drummer Connie Kay. And although Giuffre is also absent from one of these tracks featuring Herbie Mann, Lone Hill have included this set on the current release for its exceptional musical quality, and equally importantly, its extreme rarity as a collector’s item. (freshsoundrecords. com)

EUR 15.99*

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