What does MJQ stand for?

Modern Jazz Quartet

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The program will feature music by Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, the Modern Jazz Quartet and original compositions by jazz students.

Ensemble to play Baroque music with a Spanish flavor

Percy Heath was a founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet (with John Lewis, who grew up in Albuquerque, on piano) from 1952 to 1974.

IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT PULSE

A moving version of "Django," pianist John Lewis' musical representation of Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhart and a staple in the repertoire of Lewis' Modern Jazz Quartet, was notable for a grooving Marsalis piano solo done in Lewis' spare, less-is-more style.

Marsalis Quartet kicks off jazz fest; Monk gets tribute; Hancock gets ...

The family cachet did not stop there because Eric's uncle was the composer/pianist John Lewis, of the ground-breaking Modern Jazz Quartet.

Dylan-moulded talent in town

pop crooner Luther Vandross, smoky-voiced band-singing rage and 40’s movie star Frances Langford, Modern Jazz Quartet bass player Percy Heath, and Sweden’s most popular jazz vocalist, Monica Zetterlund, who once recorded albums with Zoot Sims and Bill Evans.

Adios! Addio! Adieu! Beloved Greats Depart In 2005, Which Stinks

``I had heard the Modern Jazz Quartet who were jazz musicians trying to play classical music and that gave me the idea to use my skill for improvisation with bass and drums and create a trio playing the music of Bach.

JAZZ: It's just Bach and all that jazz; Philip Key talks to Jacques ...

Visionary pianist Theolonius Monk infuses bebop with his eccentric personality to create a music all of his own, while John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet refine bebop's balance between improvisation and composition.

Critic's Choice: Steve laps up the athletics; Grandstand BBC1, 12.15pm

Take the kids to the California African American Museum (600 State Drive in Expedition Park; 310-954-4300) on February 26 where Modern Jazz Quartet drummer Tootie Heath and his trio join storyteller Sybil Desta in a tribute to black composers.

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