The Modern Jazz Quartet – Fontessa

The famous critic and jazz expert Ralph J. Gleason quite rightly mentioned two highly distinctive men in his liner notes — John Donne and Pablo Picasso. Almost four hundred years and a great deal of seawater separate the two exceptional artists from England and Spain. Nevertheless the four black US-Americans who make up the Modern Jazz Quartet bridge the gap between time and continents effortlessly.

And what’s more, blues is also to be heard — and bebop! And evergreens from the Broadway shows of the Thirties too!