The Modern Jazz QuartetFeaturing: John Lewis, Milt Jackson
The Last Concert (2LP)
LabelAtlanticGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Insert and obi included.
November 1974, Avery Fisher Hall, and after twenty-two years the Modern Jazz Quartet walked off stage and dissolved. John Lewis's vision of jazz as chamber music - dinner jackets, fugal writing, absolute discipline - had made them the most respectable band in the music and, for exactly that reason, a target for anyone who wanted their jazz sweaty. What the recordings keep proving is how much heat there was underneath: Milt Jackson's blues playing was never contained by the arrangements, and Percy Heath and Connie Kay swung harder than the tuxedos suggested. Two LPs, and an emotional occasion audible throughout.
Atlantic double LP, Japanese pressing. They reformed in 1981, which does nothing to diminish this.
Release notes
Recorded on November 25, 1974 at Avery Fisher (Philharmonic) Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, in a concert presented by Harold Leventhal. Tracks B2 & C4 taken from Roger Vadim's film 'No Sun In Venice'.
| A1 | Softly As In A Morning Sunrise | 6:29 | |
| A2 | The Cylinder | 5:30 | |
| A3 | Summertime | 7:49 | |
| A4 | Trav'lin' | 5:39 | |
| B1 | Blues In A Minor | 7:47 | |
| B2 | One Never Knows | 7:24 | |
| B3 | Bags' Groove | 6:43 | |
| C1 | Confirmation | 4:53 | |
| C2 | 'Round Midnight | 7:35 | |
| C3 | Night In Tunisia | 5:20 | |
| C4 | The Golden Striker | 5:27 | |
| D1 | Skating In Central Park | 6:34 | |
| D2 | Django | 6:12 | |
| D3 | What's New? | 7:12 |
- Percy Heath
- Bass
- Connie Kay
- Drums
- Nesuhi Ertegun
- Executive Producer
- John Lewis
- Piano, Written-By (A4, B1, B2, C4, D1, D2)
- Ilhan Mimaroglu
- Producer
- Milt Jackson
- Vibraphone
