Modern Jazz Quartet - 'Round Midnight

[123must]

Magic !

Thanks

[morecontacts]

never get tired of MJQ - from my first exposure to them in 1953 until present day - brilliant musicians performing so eloquently.

[ap1970]

a clock.

[123must]

this is Music !!!

[Raymond18806]

Best quartet ever.

[castorbtlanger]

This is just the most pleasant music I have experienced. They calmed me down as a teenager, and I questioned everything, but never their work.. For me, they are the greatest quartet ever.

[vnilakdag]

timeless!!!

thanks for sharing

[robbiegalgal]

It's almost a definition of synergy a quartet like this: each of them, with the exception of Bags (Milt Jackson) is underestimated (yes, even John Lewis who may be one of the finest jazz pianists of his age) and yet they consistently generate music that is transcendent. If I had to choose one group to take with me to the mythical desert island, I would have to struggle between MJQ and the Brubeck quartet. Were that life defined by such struggles.

[tippi02]

Marvelous. John Lewis's syncopation are incredible, lyrical; when Milt's Jackson continuo keeps the line. Fusional.

[EvannRachel]

Great music!

[paciphish]

I saw them in the sixties at the Blackhawk in San Francisco. It was great to see how they paid so close attention to one another during a performance. Extremely professional even then. They are unmatched,in a world of their own. I still love their music.

[susanmcf1]

These four guys work together in perfect genius.

[seadoomaniac1]

breathless, timeless, outstanding, so much feeling so much romance towards music.not even the best of wines would have been sipped with so much love. endless masterpeices.

[123must]

The best quartet ever in jazz music, without any doubt

[1948BigCy]

IMHO, the MJQ has a claim to be the greatest jazz quartet ever. Four jazz greats who just clicked, where the whole was a great deal more than its incredible parts! It's just a rhythm section with vibes. What a rhythm section!! They turned themselves into a living breathing organism. Look at their faces. They're having a ball, even though they've played this countless times. Well rehearsed, but not OVERrehearsed. They're probably always surprising each other!!

[DYNODRUM]

@1948BigCy Great analogy -Noone can really , sound like this or play w/ this much interweaving and knowing as a Unit .Living Breathing Organism , Can't touch that ,It;s what it was.. great composers ....

[katrina8335]

timeless!

[letsgo1015]

Saw them 5 or 6 times, incomparable quartet. A must get for MJQ lovers is the 2 record set European Concert. The New Yorker said the only thig wrong with the album was that it was too perfect!

[djmcc1981]

A geuine work of art! I think I'll put this on repeat...:D

[adeduction]

Genius Music. Late 80s early 90s. Played this song many times since the early 50s - that's why it was PEFECT.

[williamanesbitt]

Love the camera work... Vibes gotta be the coolest instrument ever.

Chamber jazz at its finest. Performed appropriately on a concert hall stage. I could listen to this stuff all night. And never once ask myself where the horn player is.

[Bezio007]

jaki zal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jazzfanjohn]

Late sublime MJQ - anyone know date and venue? A superb posting, Nicemanko - thanks for 7 heavenly minutes!

[bp6512]

Bag's eyes have something of mistic at th end of the song.

[mattleemattlee123]

The epitome of cool and class. Throw this on the car stereo and take a drive up highway one from San Simeon to Carmel sometime...

MJQ, Erroll Garner, Miles' Kind Of Bue...I don't think we'll see their ilk again any time soon.