Big Band and Quartet in Concert

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Big Band and Quartet in Concert
Live album by Thelonious Monk

Publication
(s)

1964

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

2LP, CD, 2-CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7/12

running time

1:47:52 (2-CD)

occupation
  • Piano: Thelonious Monk

production

Teo Macero , John Snyder (Reissue)

Studio (s)

Lincoln Center , New York City

chronology
Monk in Tokyo
(1963) 		Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time
(1964)
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Big Band and Quartet in Concert is an album by Thelonious Monk . The live recording, which was made in New York's Lincoln Center on December 30, 1963, was released in 1964 in an abridged form as a long-playing record and in an expanded form in 1996 on two compact discs by Columbia Records .

background

Thelonious Monks - after Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross - third album for Columbia Records was recorded live on Monday, December 30th, 1963, in the recently completed Philharmonic Hall in New York's Lincoln Center. The original LP release does not include the three compositions played at the concert: "Bye-Ya", "Misterioso" and "Light Blue", and to save space, Dunlop's drum solos were also cut out. The entire unprocessed concert was released in 1994 as a double album on LP and CD.

Monk's quartet (with Charlie Rouse , Butch Warren and Frankie Dunlop ) was joined by cornetist Thad Jones , trumpeter Nick Travis , Steve Lacy (soprano), alto saxophonist Phil Woods , baritone saxophonist Gene Allen and trombonist Eddie Bert . Jones and Woods have many solos, and while Steve Lacy surprisingly has no individual solos, his soprano saxophone is an important part of some ensemble passages, wrote Scott Yanow. Rehearsals also took place in the Jazz Loft .

The liner notes of the album were written by George T. Simon and Ira Gitler (original LP) and Robert Shelton (reissue).

Edition history

Columbia Records released excerpts from the concert recording in addition to the original LP on the compilations Monk's Miracles (Columbia Record Club D338) and (together with parts of Monk's Blues from 1968) on Who's Afraid of Big Band Monk? (CBS (Eu) 88034). The quartet number "Played Twice" was included on the compilation Always Know (CBS (Eu) 469185-2)

Track list

Original LP

  • Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert (Columbia - CS 8964)

A1 I Mean You ( Coleman Hawkins , Th. Monk) 12:42
A2 Evidence (Monk) 12:38
A3 (When It's) Darkness on the Delta ( Al Neiburg , Fud Livingston , Marty Symes ) 5:03 (solo)

B1 Oska T. (Monk) 9:20
B2 Played Twice (Monk) 6:24
B3 Four in One (Monk) 11:03
B4 Epistrophy ( Kenny Clarke , Th. Monk) 2:00

Single CD edition

  • Monk - Big Band and Quartet in Concert (Columbia - COL 468408 2, Columbia - 468408 2)
  1. I mean you 13:06
  2. Evidence 14:09
  3. (When It's) Darkness on the Delta 5:16
  4. Oska T. 9:32
  5. Played Twice 6:30
  6. Four In One 11:03
  7. Epistrophy 2:13

Double CD edition 1996

  • Monk - Big Band and Quartet in Concert (Columbia - 476898 2, Legacy - 476898 2, Columbia - COL 476898 2, Legacy - COL 476898 2)
CD 1
  1. Bye-Ya 11:23
  2. I mean you 12:49
  3. Evidence 14:03
  4. Epistrophy 2:07
  5. (When It's) Darkness on the Delta 5:15
  6. Played Twice 7:48
CD 2
  1. Misterioso 9:52
  2. Epistrophy 1:18
  3. Light Blue 12:53
  4. Oska T. 13:18
  5. Four In One 14:43
  6. Epistrophy 2:23

occupation

Eddie Bert
  • Big band (Thad Jones, Nick Travis, Eddie Bert, Steve Lacy, Phil Woods, Charlie Rouse, Gene Allen, Thelonious Monk, Butch Warren, Frankie Dunlop): "Bye-Ya", "I Mean You", "Evidence", " Light Blue "," Oska T "," Four in One "," Epistrophy "(CD 1–3, 2–6)
  • Quartet (Monk, Rouse, Warren, Dunlop: "Played Twice", "Misterioso", "Epistrophy" (CD 2–2))
  • Monk Solo: "When It's Darkness on the Delta"

reception

Scott Yanow gave the album the highest rating of five stars in Allmusic and said: “This is one of the greatest recordings by the pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and a highlight of his career.” Most notable is “Four in One,” which the orchestra followed a successful (and very rhythmic) solo played by Monk “plays a hal-overton transcription of a complex and rather lush Monk solo taken from his original recording [from 1951]. This set with two CDs is a jewel and can be considered indispensable for any jazz collection. "

According to Thomas Fitterling, the core cell of the band, the regular Monk quartet, was “much better coordinated” than the quartet from the first Town Hall big band session for Riverside (1959). The whole band had also rehearsed better here; the author speculates that this was due to the better budget of the Columbia label. Fitterling praises Hal Overton's Monk-adequate arrangements; "Even where the big band plays diversified chords behind the solos, the sound remains unobtrusive, does not become bombastic - and the rhythmic conception of this rhythm group is definitely monkish anyway." All pieces on this big band recording are "of a rousing freshness and of a thoroughly Monk-related variety. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed February 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 1, 2020)
  3. ↑ a b Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .
  4. ↑ Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert at Discogs
  5. ↑ Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert at Discogs
  6. ↑ Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert at Discogs