Under the Jasmin Tree

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Under the Jasmin Tree | type = Album | artist = Modern Jazz Quartet | cover = Under the Jasmin Tree.jpg | alt = | released = December 6, 1968 (UK)<br />February 17, 1969 (US) | recorded = December 12, 1967 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 33:35 | label = Apple <small><br />APCOR 4 (UK) / ST 3353 (US)</small> | producer = John Lewis | chronology = Modern Jazz Quartet | prev_title = Live at the Lighthouse | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = Space | next_year = 1969 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Milt Jackson | type = Album | prev_title = Live at the Lighthouse | prev_year = 1967 | title = Under the Jasmin Tree | year = 1968 | next_title = Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet | next_year = 1968 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''Allmusic'' | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''DownBeat'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>Down Beat: May 15, 1969 vol. 36, no. 10. Review by Chris Albertson.</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}} <ref name="Penguin">Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008) ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' (9th edition). Penguin. p. 1015</ref> |rev4 = Tom Hull |rev4Score = B<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=December 2010|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/arch/cg/cg10-12.php|title=Recycled Goods|magazine=Static Multimedia|access-date=8 July 2020|via=tomhull.com}}</ref> }} '''''Under the Jasmin Tree''''' is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in December 1967 and released on the Apple label.<ref name="Modern Jazz Quartet discography">[http://www.jazzdisco.org/the-modern-jazz-quartet/catalog/#apple-stao-3353 Modern Jazz Quartet discography] accessed May 31, 2012</ref> The album was the fourth release on the Beatles' new label and the MJQ were the only jazz act to record for Apple.<ref name="Allmusic"/>

==Reception== The Allmusic review stated: "The program is more or less standard, poised, painstakingly structured, gently swinging MJQ fare, the group's contrapuntal interplay as telepathic as ever".<ref name="Allmusic">Ginell, R. S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/under-the-jasmin-tree-mw0000268077 Allmusic Review] accessed May 31, 2012</ref>

==Track listing== All compositions by John Lewis.

;Side one # "The Blue Necklace" – 4:52 # "Three Little Feelings (Part I)" – 3:48 # "Three Little Feelings (Part II)" – 4:59 # "Three Little Feelings (Part III)" – 5:18

;Side two #<li value=5>"Exposure" – 9:17 # "The Jasmin Tree" – 5:10

== Personnel == '''The Modern Jazz Quartet''' * Milt Jackson - vibraphone * John Lewis - piano * Percy Heath - double bass * Connie Kay - drums, finger cymbals, percussion

'''Production''' * John Lewis – producer * Bob Dawbarn – sleeve notes * Alan Aldridge – design (cover) * Ink Studios – design

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Category:Apple Records albums Category:Modern Jazz Quartet albums Category:1968 albums Category:Albums with cover art by Alan Aldridge