Modern Jazz Quartet

At Music Inn - Guest Artist: Sonny Rollins (2 LPs on 1 CD)

Fresh Sound Records

Personnel:
Sonny Rollins (ts), John Lewis (p), Milt Jackson (vib), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d)

Reference: FSRCD 630

Bar code: 8427328606301

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The sides on this set were recorded in the summer of 1958, during the annual three-week workshop course under John Lewis direction at the Music Inn, a rambling, relaxed summer resort outside of Lenox, Mass. The MJQ was the Inns jazz group in residence, and the two sides which bring Sonny Rollins together with the Quartet, and marked the first meeting on records of these musicians since 1953.

Sonny was in one of his more whimsical and sardonic moods that night. Sonnys unwavering insistence on funny produces a very interesting by play of reactions in the Quartet. Milt and Connie buckle down to some real great, swinging playing. Percy occasionally joins the fun, as in Bags Groove, where he plays, for instance, a typical «oom-pah» bass line with a funky swing. In Bags Groove, when Rollins enters with humorously disjointed parodies of Milts theme, John prods him soberly with beautiful sustained chords. John and Milt apply their unique talents via simultaneous improvisation. There are wonderful moments as the piano and vibe lines intertwine in the same register, causing delightful, subtle clashes that are the height of contrapuntal ingenuityall the more intriguing because they are spontaneous.



01. Doxy
02. Limehouse Blues
03. Ill Follow My Secret Heart
04. You Are Too Beautiful
05. Bags Groove
06. A Night in Tunisia
07. Medley:
-Star Dust
-I Cant Get Started
-Lover Man
08. Yardbird Suite
09. Midsömmer
10. Festival Sketch

Album details

Sources:

Tracks #1-4 taken from original Stereo 12" LP
"Sonny Rollins at music Inn / Teddy Edwards at
Falcon's lair with Joe Castro" (Metrojazz E1011).

Tracks #5-10 from the 12" album: "The Modern Jazz
Quartet at Musi Inn. Guest Artist: Sonny Rollins"
(Atlantic 1299).

Original recordings produced by Leonard Feather (#1-4)
and Nesuhi Ertegun (#5-10).

Produced for CD release by Jordi Pujol.
Stereo 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
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9,95 €  (tax incl.)

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