Collaboration (Modern Jazz Quartet and Laurindo Almeida album)

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Collaboration
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Live album by
Released1964
RecordedJuly 21, 1964
VenueRCA Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length38:00
Label Atlantic 1429
Producer Nesuhi Ertegun
Modern Jazz Quartet chronology
A Quartet is a Quartet is a Quartet
(1963)
Collaboration
(1964)
The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
(1964)
Milt Jackson chronology
Much in Common
(1964)
Collaboration
(1964)
The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
(1964)
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Collaboration is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet with Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida featuring performances recorded at Webster Hall in 1964 and released on the Atlantic label. [3]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "the music is very memorable". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by John Lewis except as indicated

  1. "Silver" - 3:40
  2. "Trieste" - 5:22
  3. "Valeria" - 5:47
  4. "Fugue in A Minor" (Johann Sebastian Bach) (BWV 947; this work is probably not actually by Bach)- 3:46
  5. "One Note Samba" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça) - 5:06
  6. "Foi A Saudade" (Djalma Ferreira) - 2:34
  7. "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquín Rodrigo) - 11:45

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 30, 2012
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (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 May 30, 2012