The Modern Jazz Quartet was an influential music group established in 1952 and for most of their long career composed of John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Connie Kay.
Initially a side project for personnel from trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's hard-swinging big band, the MJQ gradually became a full-time endeavor and one of the more prominent jazz bands of the post-WWII era. Under Lewis's leadership they carved their own niche by specializing in an elegant, restrained music that used sophisti...
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