Think about names you know in Jazz. Coming up to your mind are singular human beings - no Rolling Stones, Beatles, or Led Zeppelin. There is just one exception: The Modern Jazz Quartet! As a matter-mix of confidence and modesty these four masters, all of them already stars on their own, formed a quartet simply dedicated to Modern Jazz. And as they never forgot to remember their roots, they did not only present Modern Jazz, but every connotation to Jazz they could think of as well. Might it be Traditional Jazz or Classical Music. These recordings from the early Fifties mark the initiation of one of the most wonderful quartet settings in Jazz, and are, in chronological order, comprised of the albums “Modern Jazz Quartet / Milt Jackson Quintet”, “Django”, “Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet”, and “Concorde”. This is not more (and not less) than the starting point of Chamber Jazz!