The epitome of cool and class. Throw this on the car stereo and take a drive up highway one from San Simeon to Carmel sometime...
MJQ, Erroll Garner, Miles' Kind Of Bue...I don't think we'll see their ilk again any time soon.
Love the camera work... Vibes gotta be the coolest instrument ever.
Chamber jazz at its finest. Performed appropriately on a concert hall stage. I could listen to this stuff all night. And never once ask myself where the horn player is.
breathless, timeless, outstanding, so much feeling so much romance towards music.not even the best of wines would have been sipped with so much love. endless masterpeices.
What a long strange road we music lovers have been on this time around. To think that the MJQ had already made it's best recordings by about 1965! Here we are fifty years later and the garbage music that's being promoted by the biz compared to these high priests of music that played during our lifetimes! The singer Nancy Wilson had a radio interview show and interviewed Buddy? Clarke (trumpet - Doc Severensen NBC orchestra) who told her that when he was touring in the '50's there were five or six major jazz band quartets quintets etc in every major American City playing every night all over the country! All those great musicians playing for people and getting paid. To my mind there are still that many good musicians around - they just don't have anywhere to play. Hang in there people. When we cross over there's gonna be a lot of great musicians keepin' the Big Beat!