The Modern Jazz Society's lyrics & chords

The Modern Jazz Society was founded by John Lewis in 1955 to present concerts in New York City, “featuring twentieth-century and earlier classical music (Luigi Nono and Mozart, for example) as well as compositions by John and specially commissioned works by others (such as J. J. Johnson, Jimmy Giuffre, and Gunther Schuller),” as Schuller points out in his notes for the CD reissue of THE MODERN JAZZ SOCIETY. A year later the Society “was expanded to the Jazz and Classical Music Society.” Under that name it presented MUSIC FOR BRASS (...read more