Even now, nearly sixty years later, it seems improbable that a group which came together as the rhythm section for one of the hottest players in bebop's genesis era, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, could ...

Read the All About Jazz review of Modern Jazz Quartet: Four Dapper Dans Who Weren't Button Down by Modern Jazz Quartet (2003). Expert analysis, ratings, and insight into one of jazz's finest ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Allan Kozinn It says a lot for Stephen Hartke’s “Night Songs for a Desert Flower” (2009) that when the Brentano String Quartet ...

There’s no absolute reason why Bach’s profound and abstract masterwork (which mostly, if not entirely, has the feel of keyboard music) won’t work when played by a modern-style string quartet. But this ...

It’s a broadcast of String Quartets of the Modern Era with two fabulous quartets It’s a broadcast of String Quartets of the Modern Era with the Telegraph Quartet and the Jerusalem Quartet on the next ...

A lot of jazz people love The Modern Jazz Quartet, but maybe not all the time. Some of them just wait for the parts when vibraphonist Milt Jackson gets to swinging — that was also Jackson's favorite ...

When Illinois-born pianist John Lewis composed the haunting theme Django in the early 50s, he gave jazz one of its most enduring compositions. The piece, dedicated to his friend Django Reinhardt, the ...

MURRAY HORWITZ, American Film Institute: If that music makes you feel a little wistful, a little nostalgic, there's a reason. Hi, I'm Murray Horwitz, and today, we're ...

The front cover of “Serious Business,” the Spektral Quartet’s new album, shows three members — violinists Austin Wulliman and Clara Lyon, and cellist Russell Rolen — walking toward the camera, earnest ...