Modern Jazz Quartet
This was recording of the MJQ live as oppposed to a studio recording, and as a result, brought more depth to the music.This disc is not readily available from retail outlets in the UK and I consider myself lucky to have obtained it.

CD Two Is Superior
FYI: As great as the music is on the first disc, I feel it is somewhat hurt by the extreme "in your face" audience applause before, after, and someimtes during each track. While MJG of course deserves the applause, it makes the listening experience a tad irritating. This problem is much less pronounced on disc 2, where the applause is nicely reigned in. Also, CD two has many more long jams and (in my opinion) the bass is recorded much better on the second CD. So my suggestion is, buy this double CD set and replace the first CD with another MJQ CD of your choice...DJANGO is the CD I used.

F.R.S
This is one of the greatest albums that I have ever listened to.
Each disc all the songs are great, they bring back many old memories. I'm just sorry three quarters of the band are no longer with us.

A Sentimental Favorite, but Somewhat Overrated
This is a fine album, with good to very good live versions of some classic MJQ tunes. However, the quartet's "last concert" was not really their best. At times, the music on these discs is a bit too staid and careful, and one gets the feeling that the decision to disband (temporarily, as it turned out) was motivated at least in part by a slight loss of enthusiasm for a project in which these musicians had been engaged, by 1974, for over two decades. This impression is reinforced by the inclusion, in this CD reissue, of some of the weaker material that was wisely omitted from the original 2-LP set.

The excitement the MJQ at its best generated in live performance is much better captured by the excellent "Dedicated to Connie" (ASIN B000002J4T) and "European Concert" (ASIN B000058TGY, but currently out of print). Both were recorded in Europe in 1960, when the group was at the height of its ability but still had something to prove, and both feature taut, committed performances of an intensity that "The Last Concert" doesn't quite match.

Down Home Swingin'. (no dancing please!)
I'm not going to write a lot about this album; other customers have already sumed it up quite well. This album has almost no elements of slow boring classical, as one might recall albums as No Sun I Venice or Concorde, it swings just as hard as for instance, Miles Davis would. A new comer to MJQ , but not jazz will love this album!!!!!!!!