The Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
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Artist: The Modern Jazz QuartetEdition: Music CD
Published: 1956
CD Release Date: 1990-01-31
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Versailles (Porte De Versailles)
- Angel Eyes
- Fantessa
- Over The Rainbow
- Bluesology
- Willow Weep For Me
- Woodyn You
Free Music Notes for Fontessa
Free Music Review: one of MJQ's best, of course
Hit: 5 Stars
wonderful to FINALLY find it in cd; the first MJQ i ever heard, in vinyl, which i still own. but who has the space.
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This 1956 record marked the beginning of the Modern Jazz Quartet's long and fruitful relationship with Atlantic Records and was one of their most inspired visits to a studio. While there had been excellent bands in the past that created a chamber-jazz genre, such as Red Norvo's trio, John Lewis's vision of a fusion of jazz and classical elements was distinctly original. It's apparent here in the controlled counterpoint of "Versailles," the extended first recording on "Fontessa," with Lewis's spare and precise piano perfectly complementing the looser swing of Milt Jackson's glistening vibraphone sound. The group mingles beautifully around Percy Heath's supple, melodic bass lines and Connie Kay's discrete and gently propulsive beat. Jackson's "Bluesology" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody'n You" inspire boppish invention, while the limpidly beautiful standards "Willow Weep for Me" and "Angel Eyes" demonstrate Jackson's ability to shift mood in a single phrase. --Stuart BroomerLimited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007.
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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