Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival
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| Live album by Thelonious Monk | ||||
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| Label (s) | Monterey Jazz Festival Records (Concord Music Group) | |||
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CD |
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6th |
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59:05 |
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Jason Olaine, Nick Phillips |
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Monterey Jazz Festival |
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Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival is a posthumous album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 20, 1964, were released in 2007 as a compact disc by Monterey Jazz Festival Records ( Concord Music Group ).
background
Thelonious Monk had played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1963 and caused so much attention that he was invited back the following year. Seven months before that concert at the legendary Monterey Festival, Monk had appeared on the cover of Time magazine. His quartet consisted of Charlie Rouse on tenor saxophone, Ben Riley on drums and bassist Steve Swallow stepped in for John Ore that day , who also appeared at the event with Art Farmer , whose band Swallow was part of at the time. On the last two tracks, the band expanded to a nonet led by Californian musician Buddy Collette and played big band arrangements of Monk's music. The repertoire for this concert consisted of "Blue Monk", "Evidence", "Bright Mississippi", "Rhythm-a-ning" and then with the five additional horns "Think of One" and " Straight No Chaser ".
Editor's note
"Straight No Chaser" also appeared on the Columbia 3 CD edition Thelonious Monk: The Columbia Years '62 -'68 (COL 503046 2, 2001).
Track list
- Thelonious Monk - Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (Monterey Jazz Festival Records MJFR-30312)
- Blue Monk 10:39
- Evidence 10:04
- Bright Mississippi 9:36
- Rhythm-A-Ning 8:43
- Think of One 9:00
- Straight, No Chaser 11:03
- All compositions are by Thelonious Monk.
reception
Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3½ (out of five) stars to the album in Allmusic and said: “This is a fascinating document that is by no means essential, but unique alongside the many live recordings that Monk made in this historic year of his late career has made."
Will Layman wrote in Pop Matters , “To be honest, as good as it is, this music is not a revelation. It's just a great achievement from Monk from that time. While listening to the group with replacement bassist Swallow is something new, the character of the music is identical to the fine albums made on Columbia Records around the time. ”It was a great concert by the Thelonious Monk Quartet, Layman said; it would have been great to have been there and now you can relive the experience.
Greg Camphire, in his review for All About Jazz , went into more detail on the contributions of the MJF Workshop Orchestra led by Buddy Collette; he thought, “given the possibilities of having five additional wind instruments that dive deep into Monk's dense harmonic framework,” it was a bit disappointing to hear the average results. “While the additional sheet metal gives the melody statements a bit of strength, their casual background punctuation otherwise seems more like fleeting sketches than fully integrated arrangements .” The author suspects that the collaboration with Monk was rather hasty. Nonetheless, the contributions by trumpeters Bobby Bryant and Melvin Moore deserve special mention, "both of whom face the challenge with hot, energetic solos full of daring and show style."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 27, 2020.
- ^ A b Will Layman: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival. Pop Matters, December 2, 2007, accessed February 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 27, 2020)
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival at Discogs
- ^ Greg Camphire: Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival. All About Jazz, October 5, 2007, accessed February 27, 2020 .