Modern Jazz Quartet
This innovative quartet remained one of the greatest jazz supergroups for almost five decades.
Pianist/composer John Lewis was the driving force behind the band, but Milt Jackson was the MJQ's star soloist.
Percy Heath and Connie Kay, the MJQ rhythm section, were always as subtle as they were amazingly complex.
While the MJQ often adapted classical pieces and idioms, they could swing like nobody's business -- and they always did.
