Blues at Carnegie Hall [Gold CD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Live]

The Modern Jazz Quartet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Gold CD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Live
• Label: Mobile Fidelity
• ASIN: B000000IT2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,757 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Easy, Melodic Blues, April 18, 2007

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Kevin Currie-Knight "Education Grad Student" (Newark, Delaware) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blues at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

All fans of the Modern Jazz Quartet, a group that finds me squarely in it, are aware of the Quartet's 'stuffy' reputation. And we are also aware of how ill-deserved this monicker is. It is true that skeptics, however, might look at this album title and wonder whether it is sometkhing of a curiosity. Blues...at Carnegie Hall? Does that mean stuffy jazz played while wearing bow-ties?

While the MJQ might have worn bow-ties for this performance - they often did - the music is certainly not stuffy. Granted, this is not the Jimmy Smith-stype greasy, burning, blues. But it is a sparkler just the same.

The Modern jazz Quartet plays a cooler, more melododically-laden blues. The soul is still there; it is just a blues with a bit more thought behind it - a bit more deliberation. John Lewis is a case in point. We all know Milt Jackson was a great blues soloist. But I am not sure Lewis gets credit for being as great a soloist as he was. Of course, as he is so miniamistic, every note has a rhyme and reason. So, the music is as bluesy as any, but it is more melodically so.

Anyone who wants to hear a really tight ensemble play some of their best music should hear this disc. If you are interested in the blues, this is the type that you don't hear everyday.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply beautiful, February 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blues at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

This album was my first exposure to the Modern Jazz Quartet. I bought the album based on a glowing 5 star review in Down Beat magazine in January of 1967. To this day it remains my favorite album by the MJQ.

For anyone who has not been exposed to their music, this is the place to start. The version of "Pyramid" played here is just breathtaking.

Not enough stars in the rating system for this collection!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most beautiful jazz albums I have ever heard, February 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blues at Carnegie Hall (Audio CD)

I first heard this album on records in 1968 while at a party at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and the music went through me and consumed my entire being,it was as if I heard it with my whole body and not just my ears. I found Milt Jackson's and John Lewis' vibraharp and piano very exciting. The word "corruscating" was u sed on the sleeve of the record to describe Jackson's notes, I did not know what it meant before I heard the record but when I did, I just knew what corruscating was. I enjoyed every track on the album. Unfortunatly, I lost my own copy of it and am very happy to re-discover it today.