The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. The Quartet consisted...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1957 and released on the Atlantic...
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Pyramid is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1959-60 and released on the Atlantic label. The Allmusic...
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Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (also released as Sonny & the Stars) is a 1956 compilation album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, featuring...
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recordings that constitute Birth of the Cool; the complete works of the Modern Jazz Quartet; the output of Gerry Mulligan, especially his work with Chet Baker...
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Space is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Apple label. The Allmusic...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in West Germany in 1960...
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Milt Jackson (category Modern Jazz Quartet members)
was an American jazz vibraphonist. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for...
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Connie Kay (category Modern Jazz Quartet members)
professionally as Connie Kay, was an American jazz and R&B drummer, who was a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Self-taught on drums, Kay began performing...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at the Music Inn in...
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Django (album) (redirect from Django (Modern Jazz Quartet album))
Django is an album by the Modern Jazz Quartet, first released on 12-inch LP in 1956. The actual sessions had taken place in June 1953, December 1954,...
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Percy Heath (category Modern Jazz Quartet members)
whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath played with the Modern Jazz Quartet throughout their long history and also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy...
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John Lewis (pianist) (category Modern Jazz Quartet members)
2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born...
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Jimmy Rushing, Modern Jazz Quartet, Ornette Coleman Quintet, Montgomery Brothers Quartet. 1961 Dave Brubeck Quartet, John Coltrane Quartet with Eric Dolphy...
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Collaboration is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet with Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida featuring performances recorded at Webster...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is an album by the American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet performing the score to...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at the Music...
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Whiskeyhill Singers. They took the name Modern Folk Quartet as a conscious parallel with the Modern Jazz Quartet, who were known for their use of sophisticated...
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Monte Kay (category Jazz record producers)
musicians, including Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In the same period he married (1956–1963) singer/actress Diahann...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (originally titled The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays One Never Knows: Original Film Score for "No Sun in Venice")...
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Django (composition) (category 1950s jazz standards)
guitarist Django Reinhardt. It was a signature composition of the Modern Jazz Quartet, of which Lewis was the pianist and musical director. I was tremendously...
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Prestige. The 1954 session was Davis accompanied by members of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Thelonious Monk. Notable as the only time Thelonious Monk made...
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Suzanne Severini. In this the "CJQ" followed in the footsteps of the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ, 1952–1997, using the same instrumentation), and the Jacques...
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Sonny Rollins discography (category Jazz discographies)
1956) Abbey Lincoln, That's Him! (Riverside, 1957) Modern Jazz Quartet, The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1958) Fats Navarro,...
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The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson...
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with the poet Allen Ginsberg, Astor Piazzolla, The National, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Björk, and has recorded...
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Echoes is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1984 and released on the Pablo label. The Allmusic...
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Bags' Groove (composition) (category 1950s jazz standards)
bootleg version by the Modern Jazz Quartet (October 31, 1953), the Lighthouse All-Stars (February 25, 1954), bassist Buddy Banks' quartet (with Bob Dorough...
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bands, including The Genie (a fusion band), The Conglomerate (a modern jazz quartet), Peaking Duck, Outlier, The Future, 77, and Past Ollie's Bedtime...
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first year, including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Billy Preston, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Iveys (who became Badfinger), Doris Troy, and former Liverpool...
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