The Modern Jazz Quartet Lyrics Follow
The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. The band performed over a 40-year span with only one personnel change. For the majority of their career, the group was composed of John Lewis (piano and musical director), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (double bass) and Connie Kay (drums).
Under Lewis's leadership, they carved their own niche by specializing in elegant, restrained music that used sophisticated counterpoint, yet nonetheless retained a strong blues feel. Lewis firmly believed that J.S. Bach and the blues were compatible, combining classical form with jazz improvisation and polyphony. The band was also noted for its ability to play alongside a variety of other groups. Initially active into the 1970s until Jackson quit in 1974 due to creative disagreement and frustration with their busy touring schedule, the MJQ reformed intermittently into the 1990s.
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Albums
Third Stream Music
Pyramid + Patterns
The Savoy Recordings
Echoes
Elegance
For Ellington
The Sheriff
Three Windows
MJQ
Blues on Bach
Lonely Woman
Patterns
Pyramid
Space
Django
Concorde
Jazzology
Modern Jazz Quartet
Popular Songs
- Delauney's Dilemma
- God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
- The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Bess
- 2°E, 3°W
- You Go to My Head
- Big Junior
- When I Am Laid In Earth
- Ricercare
- Air for G String
- Little David's Fufue
- Da Capo
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Cue #9
- Almost Like Being in Love
- No Moe
- The Stopper
- With a Song in My Heart
- Mambo Bounce
- Time on My Hands
- On a Slow Boat to China
- Scoops
- This Love of Mine
- Newks Fadeaway
- Shadrack
- Soma
- Opus de Funk
- Buhaina
- Rose of the Rio Grande
- I Know
