The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues on Bach
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Artist: The Modern Jazz QuartetEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Regret?
- Blues in B Flat
- Rise up in the Morning
- Blues in A Minor
- Precious Joy
- Blues in C Minor - The Modern Jazz Quartet, Jackson, Milt
- Don't Stop This Train
- Blues in H (B) - The Modern Jazz Quartet, Jackson, Milt
- Tears from the Children - The Modern Jazz Quartet, Bach, Johann Sebast
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Free Music Review: A technical marvel and a real joy
Hit: 4 Stars
One thing about this album that is perhaps under-recognised is the superb quality of the recording - this is possibly the best recorded double bass sound I've ever heard, and the percussion is crystal clear (perhaps a mixed blessing, depending on one's opinion of how many bells and chime strings are strictly necessary on a couple of the tracks). The key to this album is to approach it with a sense of humour; there is a degree of appropriate respect shown to the Bach material, but once you realise that the superficially "hokey" treatment given to the Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring theme on "Precious Joy" is a colossal musical joke rather than a serious attempt, it really does give you an understanding of the reality behind the rather straight-laced image of the MJQ
Blues on Bach Poster
In the MJQ's early years, critics often found something incompatible between John Lewis's European classical leanings, particularly the baroque, and Milt Jackson's unfettered gifts improvising over bop-blues changes. This 1973 date is structured by that dichotomy, alternating between Lewis's compositions (based on some of Bach's best-known melodies) and a series of original blues, the first three by Lewis, the last by Jackson. Lewis emphasizes the contrast by playing harpsichord on the Bach tunes. His treatment of Bach can drift toward the merely pretty, as in his handling of "Sleepers Awake," but there's a genuine beauty in "Don't Stop This Train" and "Tears from the Children," based on Bach keyboard works. Jackson's fluent solos on the blues are a continuing delight, while Lewis demonstrates once again that he, too, is a musician imbued with the same roots, inserting a telling variation on "St. James Infirmary" into "Blues in A Minor."--Stuart BroomerClassical Music CDs
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