Concorde

The Modern Jazz Quartet, M.j.q | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000XZU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #407,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ralph's New Blues

2. All Of You

3. I'll Remember April

4. Gershwin Medley: Soon/For You, For Me, Forevermore/ ove Walked In/Our Love Is Here To Stay

5. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

6. Concorde

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Counterpoint, April 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Concorde (Audio CD)

This underrated album is an Apollonian masterpiece. It balances the cool, formalist approach to jazz (that one expects from MJQ) with a genuine swinging impulse. The recording features two originals (by Jackson and Lewis) framing a set of superb and superbly played standards. "I'll Remember April," transformed into a hard-swinging scherzo, is a real stand-out (although Erroll Garner's version from a few months later remains definitive in my book). The concluding title track is Lewis's tour-de-force, a complex jazz fugue that lends the session a strong feeling of culmination. Throughout, the album delivers subtle counterpoint ("Softly" begins by quoting from Bach's Musical Offering) and thoughtful structure; it really rewards carefully attention. If you like your jazz on the cool, cerebral side, or if you are coming to jazz from the world of classical music, this album should be mandatory listening. But the music isn't austere: in addition to being substantive, it's a lot of fun.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply superb!, July 14, 2001

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This review is from: Concorde (Audio CD)

The MJQ at their very best. Recording is from the fifties with a little hiss etc.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good record, September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Concorde (Audio CD)

This is a very good record with "I'll Remember April" and the title track "Concorde" being my favorite tracks. You need a good stereo system for this record!