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European Concert

Live album by

Modern Jazz Quartet

Released

1960

Recorded

April 11–13, 1960

Venue

Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden

Genre

Jazz

Length

76:17

Label

Atlantic SD 2-603 (orig. as Atlantic 1385 and 1386)

Producer

Nesuhi Ertegun

Modern Jazz Quartet chronology

Pyramid
(1960)

European Concert
(1960)

The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra
(1961)

Milt Jackson chronology

Pyramid
(1960)

European Concert
(1960)

Soul Meeting
(1961)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

European Concert is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in Sweden in April 1960 and originally released on two consecutive volumes on the Atlantic label.^[3]

Reception

The Allmusic review stated, "Long considered one of, if not the classic album from the Modern Jazz Quartet, European Concert defines them simultaneously as a recording entity as well as a working band".^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by John Lewis except as indicated

"Django" – 5:32
"Bluesology" (Milt Jackson) – 4:39
"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 5:33
"La Ronde" – 3:07
"I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks) – 5:15
"Festival Sketch" – 4:40
"Vendome" – 2:45
"Odds Against Tomorrow" – 6:57
"Pyramid (Blues for Junior)" (Ray Brown) – 8:45
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 5:36
"Skating in Central Park" – 6:10
"The Cylinder" (Jackson) – 6:28
"'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:51
"Bags' Groove" (Jackson) – 5:13
"I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 4:54

Tracks 5, 6, 9, 12, 14 and 15 recorded in Stockholm, April 11; tracks 1 – 4, 8, 11 recorded in Gothenburg, April 12; tracks 7, 10, 13 recorded in Stockholm, April 13.^[3]

Personnel

References

^ ^a ^b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed May 29, 2012
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 143. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ ^a ^b Modern Jazz Quartet discography accessed May 29, 2012

Modern Jazz Quartet

Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay

Kenny Clarke, Mickey Roker, Albert Heath

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
except where indicated.

Group
albums

Wizard of the Vibes (as Milt Jackson Quartet, 1952)
1953: An Exceptional Encounter (and Ben Webster, 1953)
Django (1953–55)
Concorde (1955)
Fontessa (1956)
The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn (1956)
The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (1957)
The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957)
The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House (1957)
The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (with Sonny Rollins, 1958)
Pyramid (1959–60)
Music from Odds Against Tomorrow/Patterns (1959)
European Concert (1960)
Dedicated to Connie (1960 [1995])
The Comedy (1960–62)
The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra (1960)
Lonely Woman (1962)
The Sheriff (1963)
Collaboration (and Laurindo Almeida, 1964)
The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1964–65)
Jazz Dialogue (1965)
Blues at Carnegie Hall (1966)
Place Vendôme (and The Swingle Singers, 1966)
Live at the Lighthouse (1967)
Under the Jasmin Tree (1967)
Space (1969)
Plastic Dreams (1971)
The Legendary Profile (1972)
In Memoriam (1973)
Blues on Bach (1973)
The Complete Last Concert (1974 [1988])
Reunion at Budokan 1981 (1981)
Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 (1982)
Echoes (1984)
Topsy: This One's for Basie (1985)
Three Windows (1987)
For Ellington (1988)
MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (1992–1993)

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