Criss-Cross (album)
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| Studio album by Thelonious Monk | ||||
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
9/12 |
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running time |
43:10 |
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Teo Macero (Original LP), Seth Rothstein , Orrin Keepnews (Reissue) |
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30th Street Studio, New York City |
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Criss-Cross is an album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made in New York's Columbia Studio from 25.-27. February and March 29, 1963, was released in 1963 as a long-playing record and in 2003 as a compact disc with Columbia Records, expanded by three titles .
background
This was Thelonious Monk's second album for Columbia Records. Most of the tracks were recorded on three consecutive afternoons from February 25-27, 1963 at 30th Street Studio , New York. “Tea for Two” was created on February 25th, “Think of One” on February 26th. The remaining pieces "Tea for Two" (without Charlie Rouse ), "Criss-Cross", "Eronel" and "Don't Blame Me" (piano solo) were written on the last day of recording in February. An additional session has been scheduled to fill the album on March 29th; it produced "Pannonica" and "Crepuscule with Nellie", but "Pannonica" was not used for this album and was not added to the first reissues on CD until 1993. This album was finally completed with two tracks, which were already created during the first sessions for Columbia in November 1962 ( Monk's Dream ), namely “Hackensack” and “Rhythm-a-ning”.
Track list
Original LP
- Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross (Columbia - CL 2038)
A1 Hackensack (Monk) 4:12
A2 Tea for Two ( Irving Caesar , Vincent Youmans ) 3:46
A3 Criss-Cross (Monk) 4:52
A4 Eronel (Monk) 4:29
B1 Rhythm-a-Ning (Monk) 3:53
B2 Don't Blame Me ( Dorothy Fields , Jimmy McHugh ) 7:04
B3 Think of One (Monk) 5:17
B4 Crepuscule with Nellie (Monk) 2:45
EP releases
- Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross : Tea for Two, Criss-Cross, Hackensack, Don't Blame Me (Columbia - 7-8838)
- Thelonious Monk - Rhythm-a-Ning / Crepuscule with Nellie / Think of One (CBS - EP 6091, CBS - FEP 322)
Extended CD edition
- Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross (Columbia - COL 513356 2, Legacy - 513356 2)
- Hackensack 4:12
- Tea for Two 3:46
- Criss Cross 4:41
- Eronel 4:30
- Rhythm-a-Ning 3:53
- Don't Blame Me (Retake 1) 7:05
- Think of One 6:05
- Crepuscule With Nellie 2:46
- Pannonica (Take 2) 6:45
- Coming on the Hudson (Take 3) 7:31
- Tea for Two (Take 9) 5:12
- Eronel (Take 3) 5:59
reception
Lindsay Planer awarded the album four (out of 5) stars in Allmusic and praised it: “ Criss-Cross [...] shows some of the best work that Monk has ever done with his trio and quartet in the [19] 60s in the studio. Regardless of whether you are revising pop standards or reinventing Monk's classical compositions, Monk and Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), John Ore (bass) and Frankie Dunlop (drums) exchange powerful musical ideas and ensure powerful solos throughout the CD. "
According to Thomas Fitterling, “the mood of the music and the mood of the band” on Criss-Cross and Monk's Dream largely correspond . It is quite understandable that the pianist went back to older compositions and now wants to make them heard with a world public that is better accessible via the major Columbia label . Many of his old recordings were out of print at this point in time, the author wrote, "and now he has a body of sound sworn exactly to his sound ideas."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross (EP)
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Rhythm-a-Ning / Crepuscule with Nellie / Think of One at Discogs
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Criss-Cross at Discogs
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .