Time has a way of sweeping some jazz stars away while leaving others top of mind. One supergroup that seems to be disappearing from the public consciousness is the Modern Jazz Quartet. In the 1950s, ...

Even now, nearly sixty years later, it seems improbable that a group which came together as the rhythm section for one of the hottest players in bebop's genesis era, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, could ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

Back in April 1961, eight years before the Woodstock Festival and eight years after Duke Ellington’s last pop hit, the Modern Jazz Quartet was heard for the first time in the South, performing to an ...

Rediscover the quadraphonic magic of Beaver & Krause and The Modern Jazz Quartet with Rhino’s Quadio Blu-ray reissues—immersive 4-channel mixes from the 1970s, now playable on modern 5.1 systems.

Pianist John Lewis was a founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, whose original members also included vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Kenny Clarke. Lewis was musical ...

The most important thing about the wealth of recordings unearthed from the archives of Südwestrundfunk ("Southwest Broadcasting") currently being systematically released by Jazzhaus, is the insight it ...

Four celebrated jazz musicians of the 21st century are paying homage to jazz’s most celebrated historic foursome — the Modern Jazz Quartet — at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Jan. 19.

The University of the South hosts the Aaron Diehl Quartet in performance, reviving the songs played by the Modern Jazz Quartet in Sewanee in 1961.