Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with The Modern Jazz Society Presents a Concert of Contemporary Music an album of music composed by John Lewis, arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller, which was first released on the Norgran label.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album a "Crown" of recommended jazz recordings. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPK5hDoVYM&list=OLAK5uy_ll2BvkxaueaOX92AjmXmUfedjePnUy86Q&index=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with European Windows by John Lewis from 1958 released on RCA Victor.

Review by Scott Yanow

Although John Lewis plays piano throughout this orchestral album, he only solos on one piece ("Two Degrees East-Three Degrees West"). There are spots for baritonist Ronnie Ross and flutist Gerry Weinkopf but this is very much a third-stream effort. The Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra does not attempt to swing and the charts often lean more toward Western classical music (and the type of music one might expect from a soundtrack) than jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3T8xV7Gh84

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Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday with Under the Jasmin Tree is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in December 1967 and released on the Apple label.[5] The album was the fourth release on the Beatles' new label and the MJQ were the only jazz act to record for Apple.

The Allmusic review stated: "The program is more or less standard, poised, painstakingly structured, gently swinging MJQ fare, the group's contrapuntal interplay as telepathic as ever" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqBqBjYZg1o&list=RDAqBqBjYZg1o&start_radio=1

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Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday with Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet recorded by Wally Heider at the Lighthouse Café in 1967 and released on the Atlantic label.

The Allmusic review stated "This fairly obscure LP by the Modern Jazz Quartet, features fresh material and improvisations that are both swinging and creative" - Wikipedia

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

Place Vendôme Review by Uncle Dave Lewis

For a short time in the mid-'60s, the Modern Jazz Quartet were working primarily in Europe and recording for the French division of Philips, with the results coming out in the United States on the MJQ's regular label, Atlantic. There was only one exception to this rule: Place Vendôme, which comprised the collaboration of the MJQ with the Swingle Singers, and which appeared in the U.S. on Philips' American subsidiary through Mercury Records. For Philips, the collaboration must have seemed like an inevitability; Ward Swingle had sung with the Double Six of Paris, which had backed up Dizzy Gillespie who, of course, had led the big band out of which the MJQ was formed in 1952...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iLT42A1nJU&list=PLfJndz0utgONYZxUHRIx-WMpZdn7jizQH&index=1

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you can tell they're on from the first 8 bars of Milt Jackson's first solo!

`Sign inThe Modern Jazz Quartet (1988) Munich `

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxMrw7kAnFc

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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.

The Allmusic review stated "The music, which is highlighted by new versions of such standbys as "Django," "Ralph's New Blues" and "The Golden Striker," is enjoyable enough although this LP does not live up to its potential" - Wikipedia

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European Encounter is an album by American pianist and composer John Lewis and Danish violinist Svend Asmussen recorded for the Atlantic label in 1962.

AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "Asmussen fits in well with Lewis and brings a solid sense of swing to the somewhat complex music". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpcEMAFsL6o&list=RDFpcEMAFsL6o&start_radio=1

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