finetune artist: The Modern Jazz Quartet

Pianist/composer/musical director John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, drummer Kenny Clarke (later replaced by Connie Kay), and bassist Percy Heath formed the Modern Jazz Quartet in the mid 1950s and were still together in the mid '90s (after a six-year break). The group's popular chamber-jazz sound was informed by Lewis's extensive studies in European compositional techniques. Jackson died in 1999, definitively closing the book on the long-lived, enormously influential quartet.

Listen to The Modern Jazz Quartet at Finetune.

(2008) Concorde
(2007) The Complete Modern Jazz Quartet Prestige & Pablo Recordings
(2007) The Best Of The Modern Jazz Quartet
(2007) The Artistry Of The Modern Jazz Quartet
(2007) Together Again "Echoes"
(2007) Rhino Hi-Five: The Modern Jazz Quartet
(2006) Django
(2006) Django
(2006) Concorde
(2006) MJQ
(2006) Topsy: This One's For Basie
(2006) Together Again! Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival '82
(2005) M.J.Q. And Friends: A Celebration
(2005) MJQ: 40 Years [Box Set]
(2005) European Concert
(2005) Fontessa
(2005) For Ellington
(2005) Blues At Carnegie Hall
(2005) The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra
(2005) Lonely Woman
(2005) Live At Music Inn with Sonny Rollins
(2005) Pyramid
(2005) No Sun In Venice
(2005) Three Windows
(2005) Blues On Bach
(2005) Plastic Dreams
(2005) The Complete Last Concert
(2005) The Comedy
(1995) Dedicated To Connie

Django
Blues In C Minor
'Round Midnight
Django (Live at Lincoln Center)
Autumn In New York