{"id":2320,"date":"2011-02-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2011-03-08T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T23:00:17","slug":"closeted_with_the_mjq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/02\/closeted_with_the_mjq\/","title":{"rendered":"Closeted With The MJQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Blogging is going on the back burner\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor maybe a side burner\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a few days while I wrap up an assignment. I am writing the essay and program notes for a seven-CD Mosaic box of the Modern Jazz Quartet&#8217;s Atlantic studio recordings from 1956 to 1964. It involves a lot of listening, a lot of interviewing, a lot of work and an enormous amount of pleasure. This video from an MJQ concert in Holland in 1982 underlines the point about pleasure. The piece includes a splendid John Lewis solo, Connie Kay&#8217;s irresistible time keeping and at the end, following Milt Jackson&#8217;s dazzling vibes passage, something even rarer than the Percy Heath bass solo\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat may be a smile from Jackson. Mr. Lewis announces the tune.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NDjHsjAHuNc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Percy Heath&#8217;s work before and after that solo brings to mind<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/11\/listen_to_the_bass_player_perc.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this <em>Rifftides<\/em> archive item<\/a> about the importance of the bass line to understanding the nature of a jazz performance. The first installment of a six-part series, it contains a bonus video from the MJQ and another solo by Percy. I&#8217;m told that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaicrecords.com\/genres.asp?dept=50\" target=\"_blank\">the Mosaic box<\/a> will be out in late spring or early summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is going on the back burner\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor maybe a side burner\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor a few days while I wrap up an assignment. I am writing the essay and program notes for a seven-CD Mosaic box of the Modern Jazz Quartet&#8217;s Atlantic studio recordings from 1956 to 1964. It involves a lot of listening, a lot of interviewing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}