The Modern Jazz Quartet continued to perform all over the world for sold-out crowds until the late nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

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He created one of one of the most famous jazz groups in America,the Modern Jazz Quartet.

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Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers, " which paired the trumpeter's jazz quartet with a chamber orchestra, was a 2013 Pulitzer Prize finalist for music.

WSJ: Where Classical Music and Jazz Collaborate | By Larry Blumenfeld

Lewis, who went on to mastermind the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet for much of the next forty years or so, was only just starting his experiments with baroque and other classical forms, and this piece is probably well enough titled.

NPR: 'Blue Note Records, The Biography'

Between the Puzzles Quartet and the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, he's found a way to make all the pieces fit.

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