The Modern Jazz Quartet - Pyramid
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Artist: The Modern Jazz QuartetEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Vendome
- Pyramid
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
- Django
- How High The Moon
- Romaine
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Free Music Review: The Modern Jazz Quartet at its Mature Age
Hit: 5 Stars
I have Pyramid in vinyl and for me is among the masterpieces. The importance of this 1958 record is that it contains one of the most striking music composition of all music production after the WW II, namely Django. The Modern Jazz Quartet was at the very best mature period under John Lewis's leadership. Django was already performed hundred times since 1955.
At difference with the other contemporary jazz performance, the music of MJQ is a magic mixture of well defined complex music structure, derived from the classic (Bach JS) background of John Lewis, with fluent melodic swingy melodic improvisation of Milton Jackson. These contrasting personalities are crossing each other all over the record, but again in Django they had the best encounter. The passage from the exciting crescendo of Milton Jackson to the moderate solo of John Lewis is just an outstanding masterpiece. It is like the picture of how, sometime, in the life, you have to slow down and restrain your feeling, you are going to experience the sadness of the final event.
Noteworthy there are also Vendome and Pyramid, the first for its valuable delicious counterpoint, the second for the intense dialog between piano and vibe.
However the MJQ music has a limitation, it is such an unique kind that could not become a genre or a trend either, nobody can imitate them, unfortunately even among jazz funs, MJQ represents a niche without descendants. Still the formal rigour of the MJQ has been served as reference point for widening the world of jazz music in such a manner to allow its acceptance everywhere, including classic conservatories.
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Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007.Jazz Music CDs
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