It's Monk's Time

1. Lulu's Back in Town

2. Memories of You

3. Stuffy Turkey

4. Brake's Sake

5. Nice Work if You Can Get It

6. Shuffle Boil

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A Day In Hollywood A Night In Ukraine: Just Go To The Movies - Priscilla Lopez/David Garrison/Frank Lazarus/Stephen James/Peggy Hewett/Kate Draper
Babes In Arms: I Wish I Were In Love Again - Christopher Fitzgerald Jessica Stone
Pal Joey: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered - Patti LuPone
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - KT Sullivan
Nunsense: I Just Want To Be A Star - Christine Anderson
Louisiana Purchase: Wild About You - Debbie Gravitte & New York Voices
Oil City Symphony: Beaver Ball At The Bug Club - Mike Craver/Mark Hardwick/Debra Monk/Mary Murfitt
Falsettoland: The Baseball Game - Michael Rupert/Chip Zien/Faith Prince/Janet Metz/Heather MacRae/Stephen Bogardus
Very Good Eddie: Isn't It Great To Be Married? - Virginia Seidel/Spring Fairbank/Charles Repole/Nicholas Wyman
The Fantasticks: A Perfect Time To Be In Love - Harvey Schmidt
Call Me Madam: You're Just In Love - Tyne Daly/Lewis Cleale
Taking My Turn: Fine For The Shape I'm In - Margaret Whiting/Marnie Nixon/Cissy Houston
A Party With Betty Comden & Adolph Green: The French Lesson - Betty Comdon/Adolph Green
The Madwoman Of Central Park: Better - Phyllis Newman
Greenwillow: Never Will I Marry - Anthony Perkins
Song Of Singapore: I Can't Remember - Loretta Swit & Company
Tintypes: Elite Syncopation/I'm Goin' To Live Anyhow, 'Til I Die - Lynne Thigpen
I Love My Wife: Someone Wonderful I Missed - Joanna Gleason/Ilene Graff
The Good Companions: The Pleasure Of Your Company - Malcolm Rennie/Christopher Gable
Forbidden Broadway 20th Anniversary: Liza One-Note - Christine Pedi
Meet Me In St. Louis: The Trolley Song - Donna Kane & Ensemble

Tracks:

4 Guys Named Jose...And Una Mujer Named Maria!: Feel It - Philip Anthony/Henry Gainza/Allen Hidalgo/Ricardo Puente
Fame - The Musical: There She Goes!/Fame - Natasha Rennalls & Ensemble
Do Re Mi: What's New At The Zoo? - Heather Headley/The Animal Girls
High Society: Once Upon A Time/True Love - Melissa Errico/Daniel McDonald
Tenderloin: Artificial Flowers - Patrick Wilson
State Fair: Driving At Night/Our State Fair - Company
Kiss Me, Kate: Were Thine That Special Face - Brian Stokes Mitchell
Black And Blue: Black And Blue - Linda Hopkins/Ruth Brown/Carrie Smith
The Green Bird: O Foolish Heart - Company
Out Of This World: From This Moment On - Marin Mazzie/Gregg Edelman
The Boys From Syracuse: This Can't Be Love - Davis Gaines/Sarah Berry
Snoopy!!!: Poor Sweet Baby - Pamela Myers
SeesawNobody Does It Like Me - Michele Lee
March Of The Falsettos: I Never Wanted To Love You - Michael Rupert/Stephen Bogardus/Alison Fraser/Chip Zien/James Kushner
Lunch: Perfectly Alone - Carol Burnett
3hree: Foolish Dreamin'/Something Beautiful/Real Enough To Change My Mind - Jessica Molaskey/Will Gartshore/Rachel Ulanet
Lucky In The Rain: Love Me As If There Were No Tomorrow - Barbara Cook
Godspell: All Good Gifts - Sal Sabella & Company
The Act: Walking Papers - Liza Minnelli & Company

Customer Reviews:

Great compilation.......2002-05-10

I don't actually own this particular compilation, however, since I own nearly every recording represented on these discs...I think I'm qualified to comment. This is a wonderful representation of the high quality of work that DRG Records does.
The previous review is way off the mark. This is definitely not a waste of time or money. This is 25 years of preserving Broadway shows, Off-Broadway shows, studio recordings (mostly from the city center concerts), etc. So what if they "aren't as good as the original", DRG is preserving many recordings and artists that other mainstream labels don't or won't. You have wonderful recordings from Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane, Debbie Gravitte, Tyne Daly, Anthony Perkins, Joanna Gleason, Marin Mazzie, Carol Burnett, Heather Headley, Patti LuPone, Barbara Cook, etc., and many of these are from Original Cast Recordings just as they appeared on Broadway. This is an excellent sampler of the work going on at DRG. No...I'm not an employee...just an avid listener and collector of theatre recordings.

A disappointment.......2001-12-15

There's a reason you've probably never heard of most of the songs and shows on this album, not to mention most of the artists. This is a second-rate collection of second-rate numbers performed by mostly second-rate artists. In the case of the shows that were revivals, the performances on the original cast recordings were better. Don't waste your money.

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Unique, even for Monk
A beautifully balanced session

It's Monk's Time
Thelonious Monk
Manufacturer: Sony
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Straight, No Chaser

ASIN: B0000AVHBM
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Tracks:

Lulu's Back In Town
Memories Of You
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Take 3)
Shuffle Boil (Retake)
Epistrophy (Take 1)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Take 2)
Shuffle Boil (Take 5)

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Unique, even for Monk.......2005-10-06

In 1964, it had been about a year since Thelonious Monk had entered the studio, and suddenly due to an appearance on the cover of Time Magazine, he was a celebrity of sorts. Around the time of the magazine appearance, Monk and his working quartet (Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, Butch Warren on bass and Ben Riley on drums) entered the studio to record what would become "It's Monk's Time". An odd mix of unrecorded and underrecorded originals and standards, it is one of the most unique albums in Monk's catalog.

The three originals Monk tackled for this are among the least well known of his songbook-- two of these pieces ("Brake's Sake" and "Shuffle Boil") had been previously recorded on a session led by alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce which Monk served as a sideman for, but the third ("Stuffy Turkey") was never recorded before. Curiously enough, this was the only time these three were recorded. All three are somewhat odd, even for Monk pieces, and all three receive inspired readings. "Stuffy Turkey" features a straight descending theme stated by Rouse and echoed by Monk, before Rouse moves into a really well constructed solo based by-and-large on theme variation. "Brake's Sake" features a rhythmically straggering and difficult theme before turning to solos by all four members of the quartet-- Monk in particular is brilliant, but Riley steals the show with an unpredictable drum solo that recalls the phrasing technique of the leader. "Shuffle Boil" is perhaps the most unique of all the pieces-- the theme statement chirps in the extreme upper register of the tenor sax, then repeats in a more comfortable middle register. This extreme of playing (accomplished it is believed through false fingerings taught to Rouse by Monk) is certainly intriguing, and after this remarkable display, Rouse takes a fantastic if somewhat conventional solo. This is followed by equally inspired solos by Monk and Riley.

Of the standards, "Lulu's Back in Town" features the most intriguing arrangement-- opening with a stride piano intro by Monk, it eventually moves into a fairly straight arrangement (and features a superb and intelligent solo by Rouse) before dropping into another solo piano section by Monk where the leader is as advanced, fractured, and intriguing. "Memories of You" is performed as a solo piano feature, and finds Monk in an odd mood, more reflective of his style than actually embracing it-- stride and Ellington influences come through, and Monk's own sound feels like just another influence on the performance. Likewise his solo piano take on "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (a piece Monk revisited time and again in his career) finds Monk sounding little like himself, again embracing a stride and to a greater extent ragtime sound with the Monkisms just one more bit in the perculator.

This reissue is augmented by three bonus tracks-- a take of one of Monk's oldest pieces and his traditional set closer "Epistrophy" and alternate takes of "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "Shuffle Boil". While "Epistrophy" was commonly performed live, it received only one previous studio reading for Blue Note in 1948, so its inclusion is a nice surprise. Monk states the theme first on piano with his stride influences coming forth before being joined by the rest of the band. Rouse and Monk exhibit near psychic interaction as Rouse takes apart and puts back together the piece, using the full range of his horn before turning over to a brief (but stunning) solo by the leader. The alternate takes are intereting, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" has a bit more of a lilt to it then the used master, and "Shuffle Boil" receives a far briefer presentation. Both are interesting but ultimately I prefer the issued master in both cases. The material has all been remastered and like the rest of the COlumbia remasters, it sounds superb (avoid the older issues with the purplish/blue borders, they didn't sound nearly as good) and reprints the original liner notes essay as well as including a pair of essays by pianist Dick Katz reflecting on the recording session and the music.

It seems the unusual material served as inspirational for Monk and his band, and certainly the uniqueness of this record does not hurt the frequency of which I listen to it. It's not quite the best Monk's done, but it may be the most unique in his catalog. Highly recommended.

A beautifully balanced session.......2005-04-28

Musically and technically, this is a beautifully balanced session in every way.

On the initial listening, it can be a bit disconcerting to hear Monk soloing on the first track through the right channel only. When the other players come in on both channels, however, it becomes obvious that the instruments have been appropriately separated for a very "live" effect. The program material is also very balanced, providing three originals and three standards. The format ranges from Monk's solo interpretations of two ballads to the full quartet treatment on the medium up-tempo tunes, and the best-of-both-worlds long piano intro and finish on "Lulu's Back in Town." This is a truly outstanding interpretation of a tune Monk performed frequently. Everyone plays with focused, elegant confidence throughout.

This CD could serve as a starting point for exploring Monk's music. If you're already a fan, it might be a very worthwhile addition to your collection. [This review refers to the IMPORT release]

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Live! at the East Coast Jazz Festival

Manufacturer: By-Mor Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009VPER
Release Date: 1998-08-21

Tracks:

Tranquil Moods
When Lights are Low
Sometimes Braid
Monk's Mood
Panamanian Aire
All Blues
Seven Steps to Heaven

Album Description

Hear Unity, for the first time caught Live! In person! At their swingin' best! Its Hot, and they deliver! With dedications to Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis, order this CD now! Unity, great music since 1972...

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Music of Passion

Russian Choral Music-Music Of Passion

Manufacturer: Melodiya
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Te Deum | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Music Of The Passion: Antiphon 15: We Worship Thy Suffering, O Christ
Music Of The Passion: Troparion Part 8: When The Glorious Disciples
Music Of The Passion: Antiphon 1 Part 8: The Words Of This Law
Music Of The Passion: Reading I
Music Of The Passion: Antiphon 2 Part 6: Judas Hastened
Music Of The Passion: Reading II
Music Of The Passion: Antiphon 3 Part 2: Little Vespers
Music Of The Passion: Reading III
Music Of The Passion: Antiphon 5 Part 6: The Disiple Of The Master
Music Of The Passion: The Trisagion Of Good Friday: Hymn To The Birth-Giver Of God
Ancient Russian Chants: Praise The Lord, Oh My Soul
Ancient Russian Chants: Meet It Is
Ancient Russian Chants: O Holy God
Thou Art A Consolation Of All The Afflicted
Cast Me Not Off In The Time Of Old Age
Lord, Now Lettest Thou
Cherubical Hymn
Te Deum Laudamus Cantata - Allegro Maestoso
Te Deum Laudamus Cantata - Adagio
Te Deum Laudamus - Allegro

Customer Reviews:

Music of Passion.......2000-06-15

I am very familiar with Orthodox music and this CD seems to capture the mystical spirituality all in one.I recommend this CD to anyone who loves church music , and especially recommend this CD to anyone who loves Orthodox church music.This is one of the fine examples of Orthodox church music.

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Russian Choral Music

Manufacturer: Melodiya
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001HE7
Release Date: 1995-06-13

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It's Monk's Time
Thelonious Monk
Manufacturer: Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000031VTH
Release Date: 1964-01-01

Tracks:

Lulu's Back in Town
Memories of You
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Shuffle Boil

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It's Monk's Time
Thelonious Monk
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000W3RRQ
Release Date: 2003-12-29

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Japanese Version featuring Three Bonus Tracks

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A nice concept, not always consistently carried out, but an enjoyable survey nonetheless
Tasty little survey

The American Innovator

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00000E55N
Release Date: 1993-10-12

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A nice concept, not always consistently carried out, but an enjoyable survey nonetheless.......2007-06-07

"The American Innovator", mind you, and not "innovators", as if, beyond a haphazard and motley collection of individuals, there was a particularly American compositional strain in favor of innovation - and maybe there is. The sheer geographical distance from Europe possibly made it easier for American composers (such as Cowell and Cage) to reject the weight of European tradition, and the widespread sentiment, arising after World War I, that the United States was a new major power that stood on its own and owed nothing to its European ancestors, worked in the same direction.

Of course one is always tempted to discuss the contents of such a collection, both for what it includes and for what it leaves aside. Young George Antheil and George Crumb - two essential American innovators, I think - are absent. But then to include Griffes' Debussysms is far-fetched - unless you consider that anything that strayed from the Salon romanticism of an Amy Beach or a Horatio Parker is "innovative". What then is an "American innovator"? Is it, as the notes put it, one of those "outsiders who consciously shun the dominant European-oriented culture" and are "isolated from the mainstream"? But Ives, the unquestionable epitome of the American Innovator, could dynamite the European traditional only because he was so deeply steeped in it, through the teachings of his professor Horatio Parker at Yale. And the American serialists, such as Babbitt, far from shuning the European model, took on the compositional "system" invented by Schoenberg and applied by Webern and pushed it to its limits. So maybe an American Innovator is just an innovator that happens to be American, or just an American that happens to be featured on this disc (part of a tryptich that includes American Virtuoso and The American Romantic), offering an enjoyable selection of rarely performed and recorded 20th century piano pieces.

It is an amusing test to try and forget the track listing and even the composers' names, and try and recognize them from their compositions. Ornstein is easy; once you've heard his "A la Chinoise" from circa 1918 (for instance by Marthanne Verbit on Valentines or by Marc-André Hamelin on Piano Music: Suicide on an Airplane / La Chinoise), you can hardly forget it. Feinberg plays it excellently, with dynamism and kaleidoscopic colors.

2. Clockwork repetitive chime-like piano over child-like, dreamy harmonies? No other than John Adams (China Gates, 1977). From Ornstein to Adams, apparently the American Innovator is inspired by China.

3. Muscular and angry short etude with strong off-beat accents, rising from the depths to the heights of the keyboard and back? Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930).

4. Mesmerisingly nostalgic and dreamy strummed strings: Cowell evidently (Aeolian Harp, circa 1923).

5. Pointillistic serial piano with pointillistic tape sounds spaced-out stereophonically, sounding like a cliché of contemporary music from the sixties (but quite fascinating nonetheless). Would that be Babbitt? Ooops! Sorry, it was already 1970, it was Davidovsky (a Babbitt pupil, nonetheless), it was his Synchronisms No. 6, and it would possibly make a good sonic counterpoint to some Jackson Pollocks drips (or do you prefer Mondrian's abstract canvasses?).

6. A tango. I know Astor Piazzola is not on this disc. Ah, yes, Harbison, "Tango Seen from Ground Level" (1991). Not very significant, I must say, and so much the liner notes admit, but reveal that it was written for the birth of Alan Feinberg's son - "and birth is always an innovation".

7. Debussy dreaminess? Sure, Griffes: "White Peacock" from the Three Roman Sketches (1915). There is more American and more innovative, I should think - even in Griffes' own Piano Sonata.

8. Another pointillistic serial post-Webern "clonk-clonk", without tape this time: is it now Babbitt? Well, yes it is (Playing for Time, quite remarkable for its serial radicalism, as it was written as early as 1938, when the composer was 22).

9. A Simple folk-like tune of Celtic tinge over sweet-sounding clustered chords: here's another Cowell (Exultation - 1919).

10. Jagged rhythms and frenetic counterpoint, sounding like a boogie-woogie on cocaine or a player piano gone berserk? Unmistakably Nancarrow (his Prelude from 1935).

11. And again another pointillistic serial "clonk-clonk" - you'd think someone was trying to monkey the animated variation from Webern's Opus 27. Now who other than Babbitt among the American serialists was represented on the disc? Ah ah, good ear! It is another Babbitt, and a Serial Tango to boot (It Takes Twelve to Tango, 1984).

12. Now comes something like "dissonant counterpoint" in stern mood. Is Ruggles represented on the disc? Nope, a check indicates that it is "Vestiges", one of Cowell's "non-celtic" compositions, from 1920 - but I wasn't so far out: as Carol Oja indicates in her seminal book on the American modernists in the 1920s (Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s), there were strong stylistic as well as personal ties between Cowell; Ruggles and Dane Rudhyard, another American Innovator not represented here.

13. Machinistic rhythms, prepared piano sounding like a mixture between Balinese ritual music and a crazy array of struck boxes, cans, metal rods, and a possible sonic accompaniment to a sculpture of Jean Tinguely? Cage's prepared piano of course (Bachanale, his first composition for prepared piano, from 1940).

14. Massive chordal writing in polyrhythms and polytonality, leading to zany ragtimes and demented take offs from American popular tunes (including Dixie)? Ives naturally (Etude # 20 probably from 1908).

15. More Debussy watery ripples: Griffes' "The Fountain of Acqua Paola" (1916), another Roman Sketch.

16. Brutal onslaught in jagged rhythms. Nancarrow without the playfulness. I pass on this one. No wonder, it was Ralph Shapey's "Seven" (1963), hardly a staple of the piano literature, even for modernist aficionados such as myself. By the way, it is supposed to be for piano four hands, but we are not told whose are the two additional hands playing on the disc: presumably Feinberg's own in re-recording.

17. Cool Jazz in a smoked-up Club around 11 pm. Thelonious Monk, "an odd bedfellow with Babbitt and Davidovsky" indeed, to quote again the notes. But for Jazz, it is somewhat innovative, I guess.

Tasty little survey.......2004-12-19

Alan Feinberg is one of the finest pianists interpreting contemporary music today. Anything he does deserves a listen. This album is a little survey of mostly mid to late 20th Century piano music. And it is a delight. It covers a variety of styles from jazz age through serialism and even a little minimalism. Many pieces recorded here are not to be found elsewhere. It is a shame that this has gone out of print. Get a used copy if you can you will not regret it. Perhaps some visionary record company can re-release it. Do you hear me New World Records, Naxos?

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It's Monk's Time
Thelonious Monk
Manufacturer: Tristar
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00008FX77
Release Date: 1994-08-19

Tracks:

Lulu's Back in Town
Memories of You
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Shuffle Boil

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A beautifully balanced session
a Marsalis pick
An Unsung Gem!
Everything Monk did is 5 stars
I love Lulu

It's Monk's Time
Thelonious Monk
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000025SDC
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

Lulu's Back in Town
Memories of You
Stuffy Turkey
Brake's Sake
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Shuffle Boil

Album Details

Recorded in 1964 and one of the best Monk albums available from the CBS period. Personnel consists of Thelonious Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), Butch Warren (bass) and Ben Riley (drums). Contains a great 9'55 version of 'Lulu's Back In Town'.

Customer Reviews:

A beautifully balanced session.......2005-04-28

a Marsalis pick.......2003-05-08

This is the one Monk album Wynton Marsalis picked for his ten examples of "real jazz" in Sweet Swing Blues on the Road (p 140).

An Unsung Gem!.......2003-01-03

This is an excellent Monk album. And saying that means alot, since most Monk recordings are outstanding. But this is an unsung gem, which in their blindness (once again!) Columbia/Sony has not re-issued on disc.
So, leave it for another country to see the beauty here and re-issue it.
We are lucky they did! I've got it in the old LP format and had been looking for it for years on CD.
If you love Monk, don't miss this one. One of his best with some hard to find tunes. Five stars!!!!!

Everything Monk did is 5 stars.......2002-09-30

Monk was an amazing composer, but he did not write 150 compositions. I believe his book is 70 or tunes.

I love Lulu.......2002-07-28

It took more than twenty years for a wider public to discover Monk's music and gain any kind of general popularity, witnessed by his Time Magazine cover. Performed here with his 60's sidemen, they never sounded better. Although there were 150# Monk compositions, the great humor of "Lulu's Back in Town" remains my favorite from this period. It may be that I saw him perform at the Village Gate (with Charles Lloyd on the same bill) around the time of this release and this has smething to do with it. This is a wonderful place to start listening to Monk.

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