Kurzbeschreibung
(*) Bonus Tracks This release contains the Modern Jazz Quartet's complete 1964 recordings! Includes the complete albums: "Collaboration" (4**** 1/2 - AMG) Recorded at Webster Hall, New York, July 21, 1964 (Tracks #1-7). "MJQ Plays Porgy & Bess" (4**** - AMG) Recorded in New York, July 23-24, 1964 (Tracks #8, 10, 11, 14) and Webster Hall, New York, April 26, 1965 (Tracks #9, 12, 13). Personnel: John Lewis (p), Milt Jackson (vib), Percy Heath (b), Connie Kay (d) plus Laurindo Almeida (g, on #1-7). Also includes a 12-page booklet. "After we played together in Monterey, John (Lewis) invited me to tour with the Quartet as guest soloist. We left the United States in February 1964 and stayed together until early June...By the time we came home and made this album we knew one another well enough to give the best possible performance of all this material." - Laurindo Almeida
