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Composers have been marrying elements of jazz and classical music for a century with drastically uneven results. The aesthetic bliss promised by the union is too seductive for many composers to ignore, but the challenge is daunting. So if you're Wynton Marsalis, you seek advice from a master.
Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard watched a DVD of the Modern Jazz Quartet's 1994 35th Anniversary Tour and sent this review. The 57 minutes were recorded at the Freiburg, Germany, music festival in 1987 and the evening shows the guysin average (that is to say brilliant) form...
Rifftides Washington, DC, correspondent John Birchard watched a DVD of the Modern Jazz Quartet's 1994 35th Anniversary Tour and sent this review. The 57 minutes were recorded at the Freiburg, Germany, music festival in 1987 and the evening shows...
Tanglewood Jazz Festival Lenox, Massachusetts August 29-31, 2008 Tanglewood, in Lenox, Massachusetts, is the summer home of the Boston Symphony, and it's also home to events like an annual James Taylor concert, an annual recording of A Prairie Home Companion, and the annual Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which ran this year from August 29-31...
Day 29, here we go! Another day of seemingly random tracks with nothing really to link them together. It's getting close to the end, so I'm sort of just blowing some things out. Let's start with the only two tracks that have any sort of link. Both of these tracks are by The Modern Jazz Quartet from their LP Plastic Dreams (Atlantic SD 1589, 1971). The two tracks are titled England's Carol and Variations...
The problem with most jazz treatments of Bach is that they are on the moderate side of Yo-Yo Ma . But not so a radical new CD which uses improvisation to bring together the music of Johan Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane. Jazz saxophonist Raphaël Imbert has made an academic study of the spiritual elements of jazz and reveres John Coltrane, who said "my goal is to live a truly religous life and express...
Eric Bibb looks at the way he's portrayed by the media - as the sunny, optimistic and youthful bluesman - and reflects that two out of three isn't bad.
Here's how I'm scheduling my Sunday of the first weekend of the Rochester International Jazz Festival. The RIJF has put together a lot of information for you with the [listings] (and I'm linking to them in every choice below as...
I'm reminded by the list of essential jazz which I linked to the other day that I ought to move along with my own recommendations. The Modern Jazz Quartet weren't everybody's cup of tea. To some they seemed a bit...
John Aaron Lewis (1920 – 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Above he is performing at the Jazz Piano Workshop in Berlin 1965 with his own classic “Django” -- an homage to gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, first recorded in 1954, the year after Reinhardt's death.
Avid expectation invariably precedes a concert by Ornette Coleman, the revolutionary alto saxophonist, composer, and sometime trumpeter and violinist. But the revivalist fervor that accompanied his appearance at Town Hall on a recent Friday evening was something else. This was Coleman’s first New York appearance since a flurry of institutional . . .
I first became aware of the Modern Jazz Quartet late in high school. MJQ, as fans titled the group, was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibes), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy Heath (bass), and Kenny Clarke (drums). Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955. It was a great group and lasted for years. They [...]
