One Never Knows

Modern Jazz Quartet · 1958 · music for Roger Vadim's film, Atlantic album recorded in 1957

Context

"One Never Knows" is a composition by John Lewis, recorded by the Modern Jazz Quartet in 1957 for a Roger Vadim film. The album, released by Atlantic in 1958, collects six pieces by Lewis.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Jazz in film and on screen. Among the origins and influences of Cool: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Bossa nova, jazz samba.

By the same artist

• Fontessa (1956)
• Django (1955)
• Concorde (1955)

Sources

• EN: The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice

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