Recordings

February, 1975

Listening to In Memoriam (Little David), the 34th and last LP by the Modern Jazz Quartet, we had the feeling that maybe the breakup of the MJQ was all for the best. There's nothing really wrong with the album; it's just that it seems we've been down this road many times before. Augmented by a symphony orchestra conducted by Maurice Peress, the group--John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath and Connie Kay--performs Lewis' long title composition, his Jazz Ostinato and the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo...