Music CD - The Modern Jazz Quartet: Django

	Music CD: Django Artist: The Modern Jazz Quartet List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.39 Your Save: $ 4.59 ( 38% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Prestige
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Tracks: 1. Django 2. One Bass Hit 3. La Ronde Suite 4. The Queen's Fancy 5. Delaunay's Dilemma 6. Autumn In New York 7. But Not For Me 8. Milano
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0025218811026 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Prestige Manufacturer: Prestige Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Prestige Release Date: 2006-03-21 Studio: Prestige
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: One of the most unique sounds in all of music... Comment: I agree with the reviewer below me, the sound of this remastered CD is excellent and perfect for this kind of choral jazz music. I have to say that it took me a while to really get into these guys but now I am completely hooked! To me, there has never been a group that sounds quite like these cats. I have never heard the great Percy Heath sound as good as he does on this recording. It was an absolutely, incredible performance! I'm blown away everytime I hear this album and decide to turn up the bass a bit. Man, it's a trip to see how fast and tight he is. However, the whole group led by legendary Milt Jackson really is as close to perfection as your going to get in this recording. I would have purchased this CD just to hear the song "Django"! Also, their version of "Autumn in New York" gives me such a warm, serene, feeling inside my body every time I listen to it. Yes, everytime. Overall, this is just one of those recordings that as a jazz fan you have to own. It's a classic on anyone's list and RVG does another fantastic job as the "messenger" releasing it to sound as perfect and clear as if you were in the studio listening to it live. These guys were some kind of foursome and although I am huge fan of the horns, I still put these four at the top of my list of all-time favorite quartets. I highly recommend that if you are new to jazz and do not own this album then please purchase it immediately. You won't be disappointed! Customer Rating: Summary: Rudy remaster is remarkable Comment: this ancient jazz classic never sounded better.Rudy Van Gelder did an excellent job remastering this one with the 24- bit.He proves that it does matter who takes up the task of remastering this wonderful jazz classic. just keep them coming Rudy. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Pianist John Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Kenny Clarke were fresh from serving as the rhythm section in the Dizzy Gillespie orchestra when they went into the studio in 1953 to record--only their second session together. "Autumn in New York," which would go on to become one of the group's staple performances in concert, summarized their cameo-like pictorial strengths. The December 23, 1954 session produced two of the group's enduring masterpieces--"Django," Lewis's tribute to the then-recently deceased French gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, and "One Bass Hit," with its delightfully understated exchange between Lewis and Jackson. The "La Ronda Suite" fills out a great collection. --John Swenson