There is a small body of works written for piano quintet with the instrumentation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Around 1945, Dizzy Gillespie parted ways with Parker, and Davis was hired as Gillespie's replacement in his quintet, which also featured Max Roach on drums, Al Haig ( replaced later by Sir Charles Thompson and Duke Jordan ) on piano, and Curley Russell ( later replaced by Tommy Potter and Leonard Gaskin ) on bass.

The quintet made its debut on record with the extremely well received ' Round About Midnight.

The quintet played essentially the same repertoire of bebop tunes and standards that earlier Davis bands had played, but they tackled them with increasing structural and rhythmic freedom and, in the case of the up-tempo material, breakneck speed.

Rivers remained in the group only briefly, but was recorded live with the quintet in Japan ; this configuration can be heard on Miles in Tokyo!

Mary Stewart produced an influential quintet of Arthurian novels, with Merlin as the protagonist in the first three: The Crystal Cave ( 1970 ), The Hollow Hills ( 1973 ) and The Last Enchantment ( 1979 ).

The piece is inspired by Song of Songs and is performed by an amplified quintet of female singers with female and male narrators performing the " Song of Solomon ".

Among his followers, his own protégé Marcelo Nisinman is the best known innovator of the tango music of the new millennium, while Pablo Ziegler, pianist with Piazzolla's second quintet, has assumed the role of principal custodian of nuevo tango, extending the jazz influence in the style.

Despite the prevalence of the quintet formation and the ABABC compositional structure, Piazzolla consistently experimented with other musical forms and instrumental combinations.

After making three albums in New York with the second quintet and producer Kip Hanrahan, two of which he described on separate occasions as " the greatest thing I've done ", he disbanded the quintet, formed a sextet with an extra bandoneón, cello, bass, electric guitar, and piano, and wrote music for this ensemble that was even more adventurous harmonically and structurally than any of his previous works ( Preludio y Fuga ; Sex-tet ).

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

Later that year he formed a quintet with Miller, Roney, saxophonist Bill Pierce, and bassist Charnett Moffett ( later Ira Coleman ).

" Jazz pianist George Shearing's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: " with Shearing's locked hands style piano ( influenced by the voicing of Miller's saxophone section ) in the middle the quintet's harmonies.

During 1952 Astaire recorded The Astaire Story, a four-volume album with a quintet led by Oscar Peterson.

Coltrane had gained an audience and critical notice with Miles Davis's quintet, but alienated many purists when he began to move away from congenital hard bop.

In the first half of the twentieth-century, the piano quintet attracted composers with strong roots in Romanticism, including Gabriel Fauré, Edward Elgar and Dmitri Shostakovich, all of whom composed noteworthy works in the genre.

Played many years with Cecil Taylor in his trio, quartet, quintet, and septet.

His brother, Leonard Brain, ( 1915 – 1975 ), was an oboist and performed with Dennis in a wind quintet that Dennis formed.

In the early 1940s, Powell played in a few dance orchestras, including that of Cootie Williams, whom Powell's mother decided her son should play for and tour with ( rather than accept an offer from Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie, whose modernist quintet was about to open at a midtown nightclub ).

Powell's career advanced when Charlie Parker chose him to be his pianist on a quintet record date, with Miles Davis, Tommy Potter, and Max Roach in May 1947.

– Nancy Wilson with the George Shearing quintet

In 1952 Scott joined Jack Parnell's orchestra, then led his own nine-piece group and quintet featuring among others, Pete King, with whom he would later open his jazz club, Victor Feldman, Hank Shaw and Phil Seamen from 1953 to 1956.

This 3rd piano trio was later reworked by Beethoven into the C minor string quintet, Op.

Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.

Led by the eccentric, reclusive and brilliant Arthur Lee, the Los Angeles quintet was not as optimistically Aquarian as its name suggests.

The quintet was disbanded for the first time in 1957, following a series of personal problems that Davis blames on the drug addiction of the other musicians.

With the quintet re-formed as a sextet, Davis recorded Milestones, an album anticipating the new directions he was preparing to give to his music.

Mozart was a versatile composer, and wrote in every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata.

Of the many ensembles that Piazzolla set up during his career it was the quintet formation which best expressed his approach to tango.

The quintet of bandoneón, violin, piano, electric guitar and double bass was Piazzolla's preferred setup on two extended occasions during his career, and most critics consider it to be the most successful instrumentation for his works.

On September 6, 1987, his quintet gave a concert in New York's Central Park, which was recorded and, in 1994, released in compact disk format as The Central Park Concert.

For the 1998 album Domino, the band was again a quintet consisting of Difford, Tilbrook, bassist Hilaire Penda, ex-Del Amitri drummer Ashley Soan, and yet another returning keyboardist in the person of Christopher Holland.

This part of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was not fond of Dolphy's music ( in a 1964 Down Beat " Blindfold Test ", Miles famously quipped, " The next time I see I'm going to step on his foot.

The soundtrack to the film was recorded by Dizzy Gillespie and his quintet, and was released as an album in 1964.

Schumann's quintet was immediately acclaimed and widely imitated.

Johannes Brahms was persuaded by Clara Schumann to rework a sonata for two pianos as a piano quintet.

The quintet was often backed by an orchestra, conducted by Bartek, which featured prominent cello by Fred Seykora.

Adderley's first quintet was not very successful ; however, after leaving Davis ' group, he formed another, again with his brother, which enjoyed more success.

* Apollo ( quintet ), a quintet that recorded for Motown Records in the late 1970s

In 1995, the quintet of LaRue, Townson, McLemore, Battle, and Greg Walker recorded a new album, In the House, for Click Records.

On May 11, 1945, Vaughan recorded " Lover Man " for the Guild label with a quintet featuring Gillespie and Parker with Al Haig on piano, Curly Russell on double bass and Sid Catlett on drums.

Brennan recorded 17 albums with Clannad and has won a Grammy, a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award with the quintet.

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records.

Later, Davis's " second great quintet ", which included saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Herbie Hancock, recorded a series of highly acclaimed albums in the mid-to-late 1960s.

In the 1950s and ' 60s, Sims had a long, successful partnership as co-leader of a quintet with Al Cohn, which recorded under the name " Al and Zoot ".

They have commissioned, performed, and recorded hundreds of transcriptions and original works for brass quintet.

According to Mönicks ( interviewed in the mid-1990s ) the quintet had already begun to perform under the name Kraftwerk some time after Tone Float had been recorded, but RCA had been keen for them to have a band name more appropriate to the English market, since the album was to be issued only in the UK, so the name Organisation was used.

Joy Farrall has also recorded Mozart's concerto, quintet and trio for clarinet, viola and piano ( BMG and Meridian ) using a basset clarinet.

On period instruments, English clarinetist Jane Booth has recorded the quintet with The Eybler Quartet ( Analekta, 2010 ) to wide critical acclaim.

* Frankie Lymon was a famous treble singer from the time he recorded " Why Do Fools Fall In Love " with 1950s boy band quintet The Teenagers and into his solo years after 1957.

In 1967, there was a notable, but brief, association with Miles Davis's quintet featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams, although the band was never recorded.

In that same year he toured Europe with Paquito D ’ Rivera's quintet, and recorded his first album, Why Not ?, for Japan's King label.

This quintet recorded a single album, Miles in Tokyo.

* Oboist Normand Forget made a chamber version for accordion and an unusual wind quintet including bass clarinet, oboe d ' amore and baroque horn, recorded in September 2007 by tenor Christoph Prégardien, accordionist Joseph Petric, and the Montréal ensemble Pentaèdre.

Performed at Verona, Bolzano, Vienne, Nice, North Sea Jazz Festival and Montreux Jazz Festivals in 1989 with regrouped original quintet with Buddy Collette, Fred Katz, John Pisano, Carson Smith ; recorded Reunion for Soul Note.