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The willhillpoker Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson , John Lewis Lewis , Percy Heath . Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955.Jackson, willhillpoker Lewis, and Clarke willhillpoker had originally played together in a quartet while in the Dizzy Gillespie orchestra willhillpoker from 1946 to 1950. Together with willhillpoker Ray Brown they played in interludes designed to give the trumpeters time to recover from the challenging upper register trumpet parts. The same group recorded as the willhillpoker Milt Jackson Quartet in 1951.Jackson and Lewis originally shared the role of musical director but

Lewis eventually took over the willhillpoker willhillpoker entire responsibility of this position.The group occasionally played willhillpoker with willhillpoker classical musicians, but its repertoire consisted mainly of bebop and Swing Among its original compositions willhillpoker are "Django" by Lewis and "Bags Groove" by Jackson .Jackson left the group in 1974 because he was tired willhillpoker of touring, and the group soon disbanded. In 1981 the group reorganized. willhillpoker Their last recording was willhillpoker issued willhillpoker in 1993. Heath, the last surviving member, died in 2005.---- 2003 Interview with Percy HeathJazz ensembles Jazz Quartet