The Modern Jazz Quartet - Lonely Woman (1962) [Japanese Edition 2012]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 265 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 24 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz, Hard Bop , Third Stream | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27154)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 265 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 103 MB | Covers - 24 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz, Hard Bop , Third Stream | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Music Japan (WPCR-27154)
Having sponsored Ornette Coleman at the School of Jazz near Lennox, MA, pianist and composer John Lewis helped launch the controversial career of one of the last great innovators in jazz. Lewis' support of the ragtag Texas native was somewhat unique in jazz circles at the time and even surprising, especially considering the gulf between the classical jazz formality of his group the Modern Jazz Quartet and Coleman's radical notions of free improvisation. Nevertheless, Lewis not only saw in Coleman the first jazz genius since bebop's Parker, Gillespie, and Monk, but put pay to the praise with the MJQ's 1962 rendition of one of Coleman's most famous numbers, "Lonely Woman." (Along with Art Pepper's 1960 version of "Tears Inside," this was one of the earliest of Coleman covers don.)…