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09-01-2010, 10:48 AM
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I stumbled over this last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmpLt...eature=related
They owned the jazz world for a time. Then the roof fell in.
I wonder of they could even find a gig in today's cultural climate.
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09-01-2010, 09:08 PM
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Owner/The Bass Spa, String Repairman/L & M Vancouver | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Crescent Beach, BC | | Great band - and a terrific TV show too. I was never a huge David Sanborn fan but he had a lot of truly great musical entities on that show and the house band could bring it too!  |
09-01-2010, 09:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Chicago | | | Heard them as a teenager at the London House in Chicago, late 60s. Pure class. |
09-01-2010, 09:53 PM
| | | | The MJQ was great, and that's a nice performance. There was a time, back in the 70s, when jazz did not seem to have much time left. I once sat and watched Jim Hall and Ron Carter play live at Sweet Basil in NYC, an absolutely beautiful performance, and I was one of only three people in the place aside from the two of them and the waiter. Things have turned around, though, and these days one can find a number of live performances of jazz, not just older musicians who have been playing for decades but younger musicians as well, at least in cities such as NYC. As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over 'till it's over." |
09-01-2010, 09:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The REAL LA -- Lower Alabama! | | | I loves me some Milt Jackson on the vibes....Mmmm mmm mmmm
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09-01-2010, 10:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | MJQ=Milt Jackson Quartet
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09-01-2010, 11:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | I wish more groups insisted on acoustic only performances
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09-02-2010, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua  MJQ=Milt Jackson Quartet | Maybe, but I got the vibe that John Lewis controlled the action... |
09-02-2010, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric Hochberg Maybe, but I got the vibe that John Lewis controlled the action... | I believe that Ed was making a wry pun, as is his wont, recognizing that Bags was the essential soloist in the group, of which Lewis was the music director.
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09-02-2010, 11:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Plus Milt Jackson always insisted that's what it stood for...
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09-02-2010, 12:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Albuquerque | | | Also, it was originally the rhythm section from Dizzy's big band, with Milt, John, Ray Brown and Kenny Clarke. They recorded as the Milt Jackson Quartet. Ray was replaced by Percy, and the group became known as the Modern Jazz Quartet. Clarke was eventually replaced by Kay. |
09-02-2010, 12:59 PM
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09-02-2010, 01:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Houston, Tx | | | Incredible band. If I could play quarters like Percy Heath that is all I would do! |
09-02-2010, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | |  Braggart.
I had the pleasure of working a week with Bags.
EDIT: I was just thinking that in order for this classy quartet to be popular in terms of just their "look" today they'd need to shave their heads, get some tats and buy some T-shirts and jeans.
We can talk about the musical material later once the look is right.
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09-05-2010, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Los Angeles, Ca. | | | When I was at C.C.N.Y. studying for my B.F.A. in 1982, John Lewis, my Jazz History Professor, often brought his charts that he was working on to class. He wrote out everything. He was into Chamber Music and referred to Bach constantly. He was also into Bela Bartok among others. His musical hero was Count Basie. He was meticulous. He said that Milt Jackson would look at a chart once, and then discard it. It seemed at the time, that that bothered him. His wife, I believe was Hungarian and he traveled to Eastern Europe often. He sometimes showed up with people like John Hammond or Gunther Schuller and would have them give us impromptu lectures on whatever subject we were studying in Music History in a given week. Then after, we would have extensive discussions about his first hand experiences in his life in Jazz. His recollections of Charlie Parker, left me with the impression that he was a big influence on his quest for diversity of musical knowledge. He was classy.
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