{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Complete Last Concert | type = Live album | artist = Modern Jazz Quartet | cover = The Complete Last Concert.jpg | alt = | released = 1988 (complete), <br />1975 (initial) | recorded = November 25, 1974 | venue = Avery Fisher Hall, New York City | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 148:05 | label = Atlantic <small>81976-2</small> | producer = İlhan Mimaroğlu | chronology = Modern Jazz Quartet | prev_title = Three Windows | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = For Ellington | next_year = 1988 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Modern Jazz Quartet | type = Live album | prev_title = Blues on Bach | prev_year = 1974 | title = The Last Concert | year = 1975 | next_title = Concert in Japan '66 | next_year = 1976 }} {{Extra chronology | artist = Milt Jackson | type = Live album | prev_title = Olinga | prev_year = 1974 | title = The Last Concert | year = 1975 | next_title = The Milt Jackson Big 4 | next_year = 1975 }} {{Extra album cover | header = ''More from the Last Concert'' | type = Live album | cover = More from the Last Concert.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin"/> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen |url-access=registration | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/143 143] }}</ref> }} '''''The Complete Last Concert''''' is a double CD live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded at Avery Fisher Hall in 1974 and released on the Atlantic label originally as a double album '''''The Last Concert''''' (1975) and '''''More from the Last Concert''''' (1981) before the complete edition was released in 1988.<ref name="Modern Jazz Quartet discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/the-modern-jazz-quartet/catalog/#atlantic-sd-2-909 Modern Jazz Quartet discography] accessed June 1, 2012</ref>
== Reception == The AllMusic review stated, "The Modern Jazz Quartet broke up after the concert documented on this double CD. It would be nearly seven years before the group got back together again but it certainly went out on top".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-complete-last-concert-mw0000318719 AllMusic Review] accessed June 1, 2012</ref> ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' includes the album in its suggested core collection.<ref name="Penguin">Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008) ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' (9th edition). Penguin. p. 1015</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by John Lewis except as indicated''
'''''Disc One:''''' # "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 6:25 # "The Cylinder" (Milt Jackson) - 5:28 # "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 7:49 # "Really True Blues" (Jackson) - 5:27 # "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 7:12 # "Blues in A Minor" - 7:46 # "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 4:53 # "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 7:34 # "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 5:21 # "Tears from the Children" (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 5:00 # "Blues in H (B)" (Jackson) - 5:28 # "England's Carol" - 5:42 '''''Disc Two:''''' # "The Golden Striker" - 5:26 # "One Never Knows" - 7:23 # "Trav'lin'" - 5:38 # "Skating in Central Park" - 6:32 # "The Legendary Profile" (Jackson) - 4:30 # "Concierto de Aranjuez" (Joaquín Rodrigo) - 10:50 # "The Jasmine Tree" - 4:05 # "In Memoriam" - 16:47 # "Django" - 6:09 # "Bags' Groove" (Jackson) - 6:40
==Personnel== *Milt Jackson - vibraphone *John Lewis - piano *Percy Heath - bass *Connie Kay - drums
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