Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Modern Jazz Quartet

Index Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. [1]

80 relations: Alan Douglas (record producer), Apple Records, Art Blakey, Atlantic Records, Bebop, Ben Webster, Blues, Blues at Carnegie Hall, Blues on Bach, Classical music, Clifford Brown, Collaboration (Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida album), Concorde (album), Connie Kay, Cool jazz, Counterpoint, Dedicated to Connie, Dizzy Gillespie, Django (album), Django Reinhardt, East West Records, Echoes (Modern Jazz Quartet album), Esquire Records (UK), European Concert, Fantasy Records, Fontessa, For Ellington, Hard bop, In Memoriam (Modern Jazz Quartet album), J. J. Johnson, Jazz, Jazz Dialogue, Jazz Door, Jimmy Giuffre, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Lewis (pianist), Kenny Clarke, Laurindo Almeida, Little David Records, Live at the Lighthouse (Modern Jazz Quartet album), London Records, Lonely Woman (album), Milt Jackson, MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration, Monterey Jazz Festival, Mosaic Records, Music from Odds Against Tomorrow, No Sun in Venice, Pablo Records, Percy Heath, ..., Philips Records, Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album), Plastic Dreams (album), Polyphony, Prestige Records, Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album), Ray Brown (musician), Reunion at Budokan 1981, Savoy Records, Sonny Rollins, Space (Modern Jazz Quartet album), The Comedy (album), The Complete Last Concert, The Legendary Profile, The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra, The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957 album), The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House, The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn, The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2, The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice, The Sheriff (album), The Swingle Singers, Thelonious Monk, Three Windows, Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82, Topsy: This One's for Basie, Under the Jasmin Tree, United Artists Records, 1953: An Exceptional Encounter. Expand index (30 more) »

Alan Douglas (record producer)

Alan Douglas RubensteinRichard Williams, The Guardian, 18 June 2014 (July 20, 1931 – June 7, 2014) was an American record producer from Boston, who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Lenny Bruce and the Last Poets.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Alan Douglas (record producer) · See more »

Apple Records

Apple Records is a record label founded by the Beatles in 1968, as a division of Apple Corps Ltd.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Apple Records · See more »

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Art Blakey · See more »

Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Atlantic Records · See more »

Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Bebop · See more »

Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Ben Webster · See more »

Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Blues · See more »

Blues at Carnegie Hall

Blues at Carnegie Hall is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1966 at a benefit concert presented by The Manhattan School of Music and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Blues at Carnegie Hall · See more »

Blues on Bach

Blues on Bach is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded in 1973 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Blues on Bach · See more »

Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Classical music · See more »

Clifford Brown

Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956), also known as "Brownie", was an American jazz trumpeter.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Clifford Brown · See more »

Collaboration (Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida album)

Collaboration is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet with Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida featuring performances recorded at Webster Hall in 1964 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Collaboration (Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida album) · See more »

Concorde (album)

Concorde is an album by the Modern Jazz Quartet, recorded in New York on July 2, 1955, and first released that year as an LP, Prestige 7005, with liner notes by Ira Gitler.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Concorde (album) · See more »

Connie Kay

Conrad Henry Kirnon (April 27, 1927 – November 30, 1994) known professionally as Connie Kay, was an American jazz and R&B drummer who was a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Connie Kay · See more »

Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Cool jazz · See more »

Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Counterpoint · See more »

Dedicated to Connie

Dedicated to Connie is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in Slovenia in May 1960 and released in 1995 on the Atlantic label following drummer Connie Kay's death.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Dedicated to Connie · See more »

Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Dizzy Gillespie · See more »

Django (album)

Django is an album by the Modern Jazz Quartet, first released on LP in 1956.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Django (album) · See more »

Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Django Reinhardt · See more »

East West Records

East West Records (stylized as eastwest from 1990 to 2001) is a record label formed in 1955, distributed and owned by Warner Music Group, headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and East West Records · See more »

Echoes (Modern Jazz Quartet album)

Echoes is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1984 and released on the Pablo label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Echoes (Modern Jazz Quartet album) · See more »

Esquire Records (UK)

Esquire Records was a UK jazz record company and label founded by Carlo Krahmer and Peter Newbrook in 1947.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Esquire Records (UK) · See more »

European Concert

European Concert is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in Sweden in April 1960 and originally released on two consecutive volumes on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and European Concert · See more »

Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Fantasy Records · See more »

Fontessa

Fontessa is a 1956 album by the Modern Jazz Quartet released on Atlantic Records.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Fontessa · See more »

For Ellington

For Ellington is a tribute album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances of compositions associated with Duke Ellington recorded in 1988 and released on the East West label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and For Ellington · See more »

Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Hard bop · See more »

In Memoriam (Modern Jazz Quartet album)

In Memoriam is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded in 1973 and released on the Little David label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and In Memoriam (Modern Jazz Quartet album) · See more »

J. J. Johnson

James Louis "J.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and J. J. Johnson · See more »

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Jazz · See more »

Jazz Dialogue

Jazz Dialogue is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet with a big band featuring performances recorded in 1965 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Jazz Dialogue · See more »

Jazz Door

Jazz Door was a record label that released live and studio recordings from prominent names in jazz, including Miles Davis and Joe Henderson.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Jazz Door · See more »

Jimmy Giuffre

James Peter Giuffre (April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Jimmy Giuffre · See more »

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Johann Sebastian Bach · See more »

John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis (pianist) · See more »

Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Kenny Clarke · See more »

Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida · See more »

Little David Records

Little David Records was a record label started in 1969 by up-and-coming comedian Flip Wilson and his manager, veteran jazz producer Monte Kay.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Little David Records · See more »

Live at the Lighthouse (Modern Jazz Quartet album)

Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at the Lighthouse Café in 1967 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Live at the Lighthouse (Modern Jazz Quartet album) · See more »

London Records

London Records is a record label in the U.K. that marketed records in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America from 1947 to 1979 before becoming semi-independent.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and London Records · See more »

Lonely Woman (album)

Lonely Woman is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Lonely Woman (album) · See more »

Milt Jackson

Milton "Bags" Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Milt Jackson · See more »

MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration

MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in New York City, Los Angeles and at the Montreux Jazz Festival with guest artists including Bobby McFerrin, Take 6, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis, Illinois Jacquet, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Branford Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Freddie Hubbard and Nino Tempo and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration · See more »

Monterey Jazz Festival

The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF), in Monterey, California, is one of the world's longest consecutively running jazz festivals.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Monterey Jazz Festival · See more »

Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American jazz record company and label established in 1982 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Mosaic Records · See more »

Music from Odds Against Tomorrow

Music from Odds Against Tomorrow (also released as Patterns) is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring interpretations of the soundtrack score for the 1959 motion picture Odds Against Tomorrow.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Music from Odds Against Tomorrow · See more »

No Sun in Venice

No Sun in Venice (Sait-on jamais...) is a 1957 French-Italian drama film directed by Roger Vadim.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and No Sun in Venice · See more »

Pablo Records

Pablo Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Norman Granz in 1973, more than a decade after he had sold his labels (including Verve Records) to MGM Records.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Pablo Records · See more »

Percy Heath

Percy Heath (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005) was an American jazz bassist, brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Percy Heath · See more »

Philips Records

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Philips Records · See more »

Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)

Place Vendôme (released as Encounter in the U.S.A.) is an album released by the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) · See more »

Plastic Dreams (album)

Plastic Dreams is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet, augmented by a brass section on three tracks, recorded in 1971 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Plastic Dreams (album) · See more »

Polyphony

In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Polyphony · See more »

Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Prestige Records · See more »

Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album)

Pyramid is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1959-60 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album) · See more »

Ray Brown (musician)

Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an African American jazz double bassist known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Ray Brown (musician) · See more »

Reunion at Budokan 1981

Reunion at Budokan 1981 is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at their reunion concert at the Nippon Budokan in 1981 and released on the Pablo label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Reunion at Budokan 1981 · See more »

Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Savoy Records · See more »

Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Sonny Rollins · See more »

Space (Modern Jazz Quartet album)

Space is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the Apple label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Space (Modern Jazz Quartet album) · See more »

The Comedy (album)

The Comedy is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1960 and 1962 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Comedy (album) · See more »

The Complete Last Concert

The Complete Last Concert is a double CD live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at Avery Fisher Hall in 1974 and released on the Atlantic label originally as a double album The Last Concert (1975) and More from the Last Concert (1981) before the complete edition was released in 1988.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Complete Last Concert · See more »

The Legendary Profile

The Legendary Profile is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded in 1972 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Legendary Profile · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra

The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in West Germany in 1960 with an Orchestra and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957 album)

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 label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957 album) · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House

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 Trio featuring performances recorded in Chicago in 1957 and released as a split album on the Verve label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn

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 Lenox, Massachusetts in 1956, with guest artist Jimmy Giuffre appearing on three numbers, and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2

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 Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1958, with guest artist Sonny Rollins appearing on two numbers, and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet performing the score to George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess recorded in 1964-65 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess · See more »

The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice

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") is a soundtrack album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1957 for Roger Vadim's No Sun in Venice and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice · See more »

The Sheriff (album)

The Sheriff is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1963 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Sheriff (album) · See more »

The Swingle Singers

The Swingles are a vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France by Ward Swingle with Anne Germain, Claude Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Christiane Legrand, Claudine Meunier, Jean-Claude Briodin, and Jean Cussac.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and The Swingle Singers · See more »

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Thelonious Monk · See more »

Three Windows

Three Windows is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded with the New York Chamber Symphony in 1987 and released on the Atlantic label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Three Windows · See more »

Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82

Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982 and released on the Pablo label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 · See more »

Topsy: This One's for Basie

Topsy: This One's for Basie is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1985 and released on the Pablo label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Topsy: This One's for Basie · See more »

Under the Jasmin Tree

Under the Jasmin Tree is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1967 and released on the Apple label.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and Under the Jasmin Tree · See more »

United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and United Artists Records · See more »

1953: An Exceptional Encounter

1953: An Exceptional Encounter is a live jazz recording featuring Ben Webster and the Modern Jazz Quartet, released on The Jazz Factory Label in 2001.

New!!: Modern Jazz Quartet and 1953: An Exceptional Encounter · See more »

Redirects here:

The Modern Jazz Quartet.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Jazz_Quartet

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »