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The Modern Jazz Quartet

Title: Pyramid (180g)

Label: Wax Time

Cat No:LP771691
Format:LP

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• Sessions recorded at at Lenox, Massachusetts 1959/60 when pianist John Lewis was director of the Lenox School of jazz and the other three members of the Modern Jazz Quartet were instructors on the summer programmes

• An album which affords insight into the evolution of the MJQ with its new versions of "Django" and "Vendome" – the original 1952 version of "Vendome" is also included as a bonus track

• The LP’s title song cements the strong link with Lenox – when Mahalia Jackson gave a concert there Oscar Peterson bassist Ray Brown was inspired to write this piece

• 180 g high-definition limited edition stereo LP

Track Listing for Pyramid (180g)
Side A
1. Vendome (John Lewis) 2:33
2. Pyramid (Ray Brown) 10:53
3. It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
(Duke Ellington-Irving Mills) 5:04

Side B
1. Django (John Lewis) 4:38
2. How High The Moon (Nancy Hamilton-Morgan Lewis) 6:18
3. Romaine (Jim Hall) 7:21
4. Vendome (John Lewis) [Original 1952 Version] 3:15*

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The Modern Jazz Quartet

Pyramid (180g)