The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Last Concert

Styles: Cool Jazz, Bop
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 91:19
Size: 210,5 MB
Art: Front

(6:29)  1. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
(5:31)  2. The Cylinder
(7:53)  3. Summertime
(5:42)  4. Trav'lin'
(7:50)  5. Blues in A Minor
(7:29)  6. One Never Knows
(6:45)  7. Bag's Groove
(4:56)  8. Confirmation
(7:38)  9. 'Round Midnight
(5:24) 10. A Night in Tunisia
(5:30) 11. The Golden Striker
(6:37) 12. Skating in Central Park
(6:16) 13. Django
(7:14) 14. What's New?

Not really the last concert ever from the Modern Jazz Quartet but a set that seemed so at the time, given that the group went their separate ways for a number of years! The record's got the combo in really top form very much back to the basics of their early time on Atlantic Records, with a sublime focus on that unique sound that no other group like this could match. 

Milt Jackson's vibes are chromatically aligned in this amazing way with the piano of John Lewis and somehow the live recording seems to bring out even more tones in the bass of Percy Heath, who feels an even stronger presence here than usual. Connie Kay's work on drums are a masterpiece of percussive understatement and titles include "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise", "Summertime", "The Cylinder", "Blues In A Minor", and "One Never Knows". © 1996-2016, Dusty Groove, Inc. https://www.dustygroove.com/item/550655

Personnel:  Bass – Percy Heath;  Drums – Connie Kay;  Piano – John Lewis ;  Vibraphone – Milt Jackson

The Last Concert

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