Read the All About Jazz review of Modern Jazz Quartet: Four Dapper Dans Who Weren't Button Down by Modern Jazz Quartet (2003). Expert analysis, ratings, and insight into one of jazz's finest ...
The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and ...
Rediscover the quadraphonic magic of Beaver & Krause and The Modern Jazz Quartet with Rhino’s Quadio Blu-ray reissues—immersive 4-channel mixes from the 1970s, now playable on modern 5.1 systems.
There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn It says a lot for Stephen Hartke’s “Night Songs for a Desert Flower” (2009) that when the Brentano String Quartet ...
A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...
When Illinois-born pianist John Lewis composed the haunting theme Django in the early 50s, he gave jazz one of its most enduring compositions. The piece, dedicated to his friend Django Reinhardt, the ...
Percy Heath, the superb bassist who for more than 40 years provided the sublime underpinnings for the Modern Jazz Quartet, died Thursday of bone cancer at a hospital in Southampton, New York. He was ...
MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: If that music makes you feel a little wistful, a little nostalgic, there's a reason. Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and today, we're ...
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