This is a powerful recording of the Modern Jazz Quartet, with revisited versions of John Lewis's "Vendome", Ray Brown's "Pyramid", Jim Hall's "Romaine" and Lewis' famous "Django", and an amalgam of "How High" the Moon "and" It Don't Mean a Thing ".rn

rnMJQ becomes an institution in the jazz world at that time, despite this but it never lost the creative side and the performances on the remakes are inspiring, exciting and fresh as well.rn

rnMJQ was a jazz band founded in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano and musical direction), Percy Heath (double bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums). Clarke was replaced by Connie Kay in 1955. The group had the opportunity to express themselves in different styles (bebop, cool jazz, third stream) but its distinctive feature was the counterpoint and classical style of songs like Vendome and Fontessa. For this reason, due to Lewis's statements about it, and their preference for a very formal presentation style (the MJQ performed in tails in traditional concert halls), the members of the quartet were often accused of wanting to bend jazz. to a "white", essentially non-jazz style.