Modern jazz

Modern Jazz Quartet: Django

One of the most revered and versatile quartets that jazz has ever produced, the MJQ could easily be regarded as a supergroup, considering the skill and talent of each member, from leader Milt Jackson to John Lewis, Percy

The Modern Jazz Quartet 35th Anniversary Concert

Starting in 1946, The Modern Jazz Quartet has existed as a great, but perhaps obscure group compared to luminaries such as Duke Ellington (with whom they once worked with), Cab Calloway, Oscar Peterson, and Miles Davis,

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hanc

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard

Recorded in 1982 at the Village Vanguard in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village, this fabulous video features Art Blakey's swingin' Jazz Messengers with Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Billy Pierce, Donald Brown, Cha

Johnny Griffin Quartet & Mike Mainieri Quintet - Modern Jazz At The Village Vanguard