The Complete Last Concert

The Complete Last Concert
Live album by Modern Jazz Quartet
Released 1988
Recorded November 25, 1974
Avery Fisher Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 148:05
Label Atlantic 81976-2
Producer İlhan Mimaroğlu
Modern Jazz Quartet chronology
Blues on Bach
(1973)		 The Complete Last Concert
(1974)		 Reunion at Budokan 1981
(1981)
Milt Jackson chronology
Olinga
(1973)		 The Complete Last Concert
(1974)		 The Milt Jackson Big 4
(1975)
More from the Last Concert
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]

The Complete Last Concert is a double CD live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at Avery Fisher Hall in 1974 and released on the Atlantic Recorded by David Hewitt on the Record Plant NY Remote Truck. label originally as a double album The Last Concert (1975) and More from the Last Concert (1981) before the complete edition was released in 1988.[3]

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "The Modern Jazz Quartet broke up after the concert documented on this double CD. It would be nearly seven years before the group got back together again but it certainly went out on top".[1]

Track listing

All compositions by John Lewis except as indicated

Disc One:

  1. "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 6:25
  2. "The Cylinder" (Milt Jackson) - 5:28
  3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 7:49
  4. "Really True Blues" (Jackson) - 5:27
  5. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 7:12
  6. "Blues in A Minor" - 7:46
  7. "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:53
  8. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:34
  9. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 5:21
  10. "Tears from the Children" (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 5:00
  11. "Blues in H (B)" (Jackson) - 5:28
  12. "England's Carol" - 5:42

Disc Two:

  1. "The Golden Striker" - 5:26
  2. "One Never Knows" - 7:23
  3. "Trav'lin'" - 5:38
  4. "Skating in Central Park" - 6:32
  5. "The Legendary Profile" (Jackson) - 4:30
  6. "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquín Rodrigo) - 10:50
  7. "The Jasmin Tree" - 4:05
  8. "In Memoriam" - 16:47
  9. "Django" - 6:09
  10. "Bags' Groove" (Jackson) - 6:40

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 1, 2012
  2. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 143. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Modern Jazz Quartet discography accessed June 1, 2012
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