Among Thelonious Monk's long stays at New York's legendary Five Spot was a six-month period in 1957 with possibly his most brilliant band, with John Coltrane finding fuel in Monk's music for his harmonic explorations. The quartet only recorded three studio tracks: a sublime reading of Monk's ballad "Ruby, My Dear"; a loping version of "Nutty"; and a stunning version of "Trinkle Tinkle" on which Trane's tenor mirrors Monk's piano part. The CD is completed with outtakes from an octet session that joined Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins and an extended solo version of "Functional." --Stuart Broomer
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Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Thelonious Monk , and John Coltrane Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AV2GCE Release Date: 2005-09-27 |
Tracks:
- Monk's Mood
- Evidence
- Crepescule With Nellie
- Nutty
- Epistrophy (Live)
- Bye-Ya
- Sweet And Lovely
- Blue Monk
- Epistrophy
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Every year sees a crop of newly found jazz gems, but rarely are listeners treated to anything as special as this 1957 concert recording of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, which was accidentally discovered in an unmarked box by a Library of Congress engineer early in 2005. Until now, fans could only dream of hearing these two immortals play together beyond the three studio tracks they left behind. But here they are, hitting their stride at an all-star benefit concert, basking in the chemistry they had developed in Monk's quartet during the preceding weeks at New York's Five Spot. Coltrane's playing is a revelation. He's both an inspired accompanist and a galvanizing soloist, taking the music to new heights with his bold, brilliantly challenging, and sometimes jaw-dropping phrases, note clusters, and blasts of power. Sharing with Coltrane a newfound sense of freedom following the personal and professional troubles that had plagued them both, Monk is clearly tickled to be in the tenorist's presence, injecting humorous commentaries and otherwise asserting his eccentric genius as a pianist. The material, which was very well recorded by the Voice of America, includes Monk classics like "Epistrophy," "Monk's Moods," and "Evidence," as well as a striking rendition of the standard "Sweet and Lovely." This is music that not only bears repeated listenings, but also demands them--the ultimate definition of a classic. --Lloyd SachsCustomer Reviews:
essential to your jazz collection, period.......2007-05-30
Thelonious Monk Quarted with John colgrane at Carnegie Hall.......2007-05-29
Very Nice.......2007-05-25
Pure.......2007-05-20
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall.......2007-05-17
He is exceited and overjoyed to have gotten the disc.
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000Y2F Release Date: 1991-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Ruby, My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Off Minor [Stereo] - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk
- Nutty
- Epistrophy [Stereo]
- Functional
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Among Thelonious Monk's long stays at New York's legendary Five Spot was a six-month period in 1957 with possibly his most brilliant band, with John Coltrane finding fuel in Monk's music for his harmonic explorations. The quartet only recorded three studio tracks: a sublime reading of Monk's ballad "Ruby, My Dear"; a loping version of "Nutty"; and a stunning version of "Trinkle Tinkle" on which Trane's tenor mirrors Monk's piano part. The CD is completed with outtakes from an octet session that joined Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins and an extended solo version of "Functional." --Stuart BroomerCustomer Reviews:
music from the Five Spot...........2007-06-22
great concert.......2007-06-02
great concert.......2007-06-02
great concert.......2007-06-02
Pleasing .......2006-08-25
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The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (2 CD)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane , Thelonious Monk , and John Coltrane Manufacturer: Riverside ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FBHCQO Release Date: 2006-06-27 |
Tracks:
- Monk's Mood (False Start)
- Monk's Mood
- Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 1)
- Crepuscule With Nellie (Take 2)
- Crepuscule With Nellie (Breakdown)
- Blues For Tomorrow
- Crepuscule With Nellie (Edited: Re-Takes 4 & 5)
- Crepuscule With Nellie (Re-Take 6)
- Off Minor (Take 4)
- Off Minor (Take 5)
Tracks:
- Abide With Me (Take 1)
- Abide With Me
- Epistrophy (Short Version)
- Epistrophy
- Well, You Needn't (Opening)
- Well, You Needn't
- Ruby, My Dear
- Ruby, My Dear
- Nutty
- Trinkle, Tinkle
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The 2005 release of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall brought fresh attention to a brilliant musical partnership, though one of the least recorded. While the Monk/Coltrane association lasted only a few months in 1957, it coincided with Monk's emergence as a major figure and with the first flowering of Coltrane's genius. This two-CD set collects all of their studio meetings, including previously unreleased takes. There's the surprise trio version of "Monk's Mood," which the pianist inserted in a solo album; the Monk's Music septet sessions pairing Coltrane with Coleman Hawkins (now including the errant "Blues for Tomorrow," a Gigi Gryce tune recorded when Monk fell asleep at the keyboard); and the three superb tracks that constituted the sole studio documentation of the great quartet. Coltrane manages a virtual piano part on "Trinkle Tinkle," suggesting just how musically close the two became. Producer Orrin Keepnews provides an illuminating essay on the circumstances surrounding this essential chapter in jazz history. --Stuart BroomerAlbum Description
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane are universally recognized as musical demigods. The idea of Monk and Coltrane--the genius mentor and the budding genius--on the same bandstand or in the same recording studio is like Julius Erving and Michael Jordan soaring as teammates, or Jean Renoir and Francois Truffaut collaborating on a film. For an all-too-brief, magical time in 1957, Monk and Coltrane actually did work together every night as part of a quartet led by the uniquely brilliant pianist-composer Monk at New York's now-fabled Five Spot Cafe. And between April and July of that year they made the stunning music contained herein, their complete output in the recording studio. The planets seemed to align for Thelonious Sphere Monk (1917-1982) and John William Coltrane (1926-1967) when they joined forces in '57. Coltrane was poised to make a giant leap forward--and ready to learn from one of the masters, Monk. In a Down Beat interview Coltrane said: "Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I learned from him in every way." Some of those answers involved the way in which Coltrane's harmonic acuity developed, expressed via early intimations of his torrential "sheets of sound." With Monk's chords guiding him to places he'd never before visited, Coltrane was now on the path to transcendence. When he is joined by Coleman Hawkins, jazz's father of the tenor saxophone, on a couple of numbers from the epochal septet album Monk's Music, one hears the tenor's past, present, and future (e.g., the master take of "Epistrophy"). And listen raptly to the respective approaches of Hawkins and Coltrane on the two versions of "Ruby, My Dear," one of three signature Monk ballads in this set (the others are "Monk's Mood" and the ever-evolving "Crepuscule with Nellie"). There is such greatness on these two discs, so many wondrous performances (the rhythm team of bassist Wilbur Ware and drummers Art Blakey or Shadow Wilson is especially inspired), and so many fascinating stories about how these masterpieces came into being. Orrin Keepnews, who as producer of the original sessions was present at the creation of every note, has written a superb essay that sets the record straight, clears up long-standing rumors about what did (and did not) go down in the studio, and, above all, lets the listener in on how a genius mentor, a budding genius, and their gifted colleagues went about the business of conceiving a work of art.Monk and Coltrane Photos
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There were giants in the earth in those days..........2007-07-17
There's something electric about Monk and Blakey together. Add the tempestuous Coltrane to the mix and you have a keg of gunpowder. They make us realize how pat later performances of these compositions could sound. Particularly exciting is the first attempt at Epistrophy, with Blakey doing some wild drumming even for him. Unfortunately, because of a breakdown after Ray Copeland's trumpet solo, they had to do it again, and the second take sounds a bit more warmed over. There are still great moments, however, such as a powerful Coleman Hawkins tenor solo. The great Bean seems to be telling the youngersters "You are great, but I am still greater, after 30 years." And he was. The only player from his generation to really adapt to bebop, his reputation has faded a bit recently. He's not in the same parthenon as Parker, Coltrane, Davis, etc., but he should be, easily. His knowledge of the harmonic underpinnings of all these tunes is just astonishing, and his knotty solos demonstrate that he understood the function of every note in every chord in every tune. He is one of the most *thorough* musicians in jazz history.
While trumpeter Copeland and alto Gigi Gryce really don't fit in here (Gryce in particular is out of his element...I wonder why he was picked, and can only imagine how much better Sahib Shihab would have been) the rest of the cast is superb, with bassist Wilbur Ware and drummers Blakey and on some tracks Shadow Wilson lending inspired support. On Trinkle Tinkle and Nutty you can hear Trane experimenting with his "sheets of sound" technique, while in other, earlier tracks he is still heavily influenced by hard bop. In other words, you can hear his style change across the album. While there are too many Crepuscule With Nellies for my taste, the rest of the album is superb. Sound is extremely good (despite a few dropouts here and there) for the time, or even by today's standards. And producer Orrin Keepnews' liner notes are informative and make you feel like you are there. While some of the solos meander, and Copeland and Gryce are clearly trying to find their way (and occasionally getting lost, even on the tracks that got used) Trane and Monk and Blakey contribute first-class jazz. After you digest this terrific set, check out the recently-unearthed Monk and Trane at Carnegie Hall.
MONK and TRANE.......2007-01-11
If you get this CD you'll be pleasantly surprised at the audio and musical quality of the songs and alternate takes. The little booklet inside was informative without being verbose.
Highly recommended!
An insult to two great jazz masters.......2006-07-29
Monk and Trane in the Studio: The Director's Cut! That is, The Producer's Cut!.......2006-06-28
For some the contents of this set may be too much of a good thing, given the number of alternate takes (plus the inclusion of several cuts from the same sessions that are missing one of the two key musicians). Ten tunes are featured among the twenty tracks included on the two CDs. However, for most listeners the multiple takes will be welcome. Both Monk and Coltrane almost always find something unique to say in their solos, although the five takes of "Crepuscule With Nellie" arguably do get a bit repetitive. Even so, bottom-of-the-barrel Monk and Trane out-takes would be over-the-top-of-the-barrel for most other musicians. Furthermore, I was surprised to find that two tracks are released here for the first time. Not to mention the master takes, which belong in the front wing of any jazz hall-of-fame!
Monk and Coltrane's names may be the only ones on the front cover, but the other musicians are among jazz's all-time greats as well, including tenor sax legend Coleman Hawkins on one session. There's really nothing more I can write than to say that these recordings are historically important, and timeless in their ability to sound fresh and innovative even a half-century after they were recorded. It's hard to find any jazz recordings over the course of its entire history that are more crucial than these Monk and Coltrane sessions.
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Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
Thelonious Monk , and John Coltrane ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AAVDZG Release Date: 2005-09-27 |
Tracks:
- Monk's Mood
- Evidence
- Crepuscule with Nellie
- Nutty
- Epistrophy
- Bye-Ya
- Sweet and Lovely
- Blue Monk
- Epistrophy [Incomplete Take]
Album Description
Australian pressing. This never-before heard jazz classic documents one of the most historically important working bands in all of Jazz history, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of America for a later radio broadcast that were located at the Library of Congress in Washington DC earlier this year. Blue Note. 2005.Customer Reviews:
Buy This Album.......2005-10-17
And then there's the room. You can hear Carnegie Hall in the music, that huge acoustically beautiful space all around these cats. The room sounds like God too. Whoever the Voice of America engineer who rigged the session was (nobody seems to know), he nailed it. You can hear everything, and everything sounds just right. When Shadow Wilson and Ahmed Abdul-Malik follow Trane into the tune, by god THEY sound like God.
So: you gotta stop whatever you're doing, hop in your car and get thee to a place of musical commerce! I'm telling you, your soul needs this. It is The Real Deal. Just when we didn't think there would ever again be any more, here it is.
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Manufacturer: Jazzland ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000B1A2G Release Date: 2003-09-30 |
Tracks:
- Ruby, My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Off Minor [Stereo] - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk
- Nutty
- Epistrophy [Stereo]
- Functional
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Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (20 Bit Mastering)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Manufacturer: Jazzland ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004UEIH Release Date: 2000-08-01 |
Tracks:
- Ruby, My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Off Minor
- Nutty
- Epistrophy
- Functional
Amazon.com essential recording
Among Thelonious Monk's long stays at New York's legendary Five Spot was a six-month period in 1957 with possibly his most brilliant band, with John Coltrane finding fuel in Monk's music for his harmonic explorations. The quartet only recorded three studio tracks: a sublime reading of Monk's ballad "Ruby, My Dear"; a loping version of "Nutty"; and a stunning version of "Trinkle Tinkle" on which Trane's tenor mirrors Monk's piano part. The CD is completed with outtakes from an octet session that joined Coltrane and Coleman Hawkins and an extended solo version of "Functional." --Stuart BroomerCustomer Reviews:
music from the Five Spot...........2007-06-22
great concert.......2007-06-02
great concert.......2007-06-02
great concert.......2007-06-02
Pleasing .......2006-08-25
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With John Coltrane
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000NO295M Release Date: 2007-04-17 |
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Where Do You Go from Here?
Bob Himmelberger Manufacturer: CD Baby ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA2OK2 Release Date: 2001-07-31 |
Tracks:
- Yeah
- Night Moods
- Dolphin
- Straight Up and Down
- Where Do You Go from Here?
- Options
- Trance
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- I See Your Face Before Me
- All of You
- Lazy Bird
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Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Manufacturer: Riverside/OJC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000FIHBJK Release Date: 2006-07-03 |
Tracks:
- Ruby, My Dear
- Trinkle, Tinkle
- Off Minor [Stereo] - John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Monk
- Nutty
- Epistrophy [Stereo]
- Functional
Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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Sloe Gin Fizz
Andy Tubman Manufacturer: Andy Tubman ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CADD7U Release Date: 2003-05-27 |
Tracks:
- High
- Invisible Diamond
- Bubble Gum World
- Tap Room
- Shine
- Hit the Road
- You Got It Goin' On
- Lullabye
- Hills Along the Way
- Autumn Falls
- Who's Kidding Who
- Guilty
- I Feel for You
- Song of My Dreams
- On and On
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