Randy Weston, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, represent the everlasting legacy of the original Music Inn, which was conceived at the midpoint of the 20th century by Phil and Stephanie Barber to be a stimulating summer school in the country with a curriculum of what was most hip in the city.
More than half a century after singing on as a dishwasher near the Music Inn, Randy Weston was back in the Berkshires for a concert in Pittsfield, with Alex Blake on bass.