Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played a style of jazz influenced by classical music, cool jazz, blues and bebop. The band performed over a forty-year span with only one personnel change. Under John Lewis's leadership they carved their own niche by specializing in elegant, restrained music that used sophisticated counterpoint yet nonetheless retained a strong blues feel. John Lewis firmly believed that J.S. Bach and the blues were compatible, combining classical form with jazz improvisation and polyphony. The band was also noted for its ability to play alongside a variety of other groups. For the majority of their career the group comprised John Lewis (piano and musical director), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (double bass) and Connie Kay (drums). Initially active into the 1970s, until Jackson quit due to creative disagreement and frustration with their busy touring schedule, the MJQ reformed intermittently into the 1990s.

History

Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated from African American communities of New Orleans in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz spans a period of over a hundred years, encompassing a very wide range of music, making it difficult to define. Jazz makes heavy use of improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swing note, as well as aspects of European harmony, American popular music, the brass band tradition, and African musical elements such as blue notes and African-American styles such as ragtime. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience to the music as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

The Modern

The Modern could be

The Modern (band), a British Electropop] band formerly called Matinée Club

The Modern, a twin tower complex in Fort Lee, New Jersey

The Modern (restaurant), a Danny Meyer restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, referred to colloquially as "The Modern"

John Lewis

John Lewis may refer to:

Companies

John Lewis Partnership, a United Kingdom worker co-operative retailer

John Lewis (department store), a chain of department stores in Great Britain

John Lewis (department store), a chain of department stores in Great Britain

Military

USNS John Lewis (T-AO-205) - lead ship of a new class of US military tankers, named for the civil rights activist

People

Business

John Lewis (brewer) (1713–1792), British brewer

John Lewis (department store founder) (1836–1928), draper and founder of the John Lewis department store

John Spedan Lewis (1885–1963), his son, industrial democracy pioneer, founder of the John Lewis Partnership

Religion

John Lewis (antiquarian) (1675–1747), English clergyman

John Lewis (Archbishop of Ontario) (1825–1901), Anglican bishop, archbishop and author in Canada

John Lewis (Bishop of North Queensland) (born 1926), Australian Anglican bishop

John Lewis (Archdeacon of Cheltenham) (born 1934), English Anglican priest

John Lewis (Dean of Llandaff) (born 1947), Welsh Anglican priest

The Last

The Last may refer to:

The Last (band), Los Angeles power pop band active since 1976

The Last (audio drama), a Doctor Who audio drama released in 2004

The Last (album), 2009 album by Aventura

"The Last", a song by The Replacements from the 1990 album All Shook Down

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