Misterioso
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| Live album by Thelonious Monk | ||||
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| Label (s) | Riverside Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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58:04 |
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Studio (s) |
Five Spot, New York City |
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Misterioso is an album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made in the New York jazz club Five Spot Cafe in August 1957, were released in 1958 as a long-playing record on Riverside Records and in 2006 as a compact disc on Original Jazz Classics, expanded by two titles . Misterioso received its title from Monk's composition of the same name from 1948. It was the second publication of recordings of Monks from the Five Spot after Thelonious in Action .
background
The term "Misterioso" comes from Italian and means "in a mysterious way". It is most commonly used as a notation in classical music.
The Thelonious Monk Quartet had a long engagement in the New York Club Five Spot Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the summer of 1957 , which was a great success; "His five-spot appearance lasts eight months, the club is always full," wrote Thomas Fitterling. During this time Monk played with the saxophonist John Coltrane . In the following year there was also a longer guest appearance in Five Spot , this time with saxophonist Johnny Griffin ; In a quartet with this, the live recordings Thelonious in Action (July 9th) and Misterioso were made on August 7th, 1958. In September 1958 Griffin resigned because he could not live on the fees in the Five Spot ; Sonny Rollins joined the band in his place .
Track list
- Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso (Riverside Records - RLP 12-279)
A1 Nutty (Monk) 5:15
A2 Blues Five Spot (Monk) 8:06
A3 Let's Cool One (Monk) 9:14
B1 In Walked Bud (Monk) 11:22
B2 Just a Gigolo ( Irving Caesar , Leonello Casucci ) 2:03
B3 Misterioso (Monk) 10:50
- The CD edition contained the additional tracks " 'Round Midnight " (6:15) and "Evidence" (10:14).
reception
Lindsay Planer said in Allmusic about the playing of the quartet's musicians: "Your overwhelming and instinctive skills contribute directly to the powerful swing and the coherent sound that you could constantly reinvent."
"Misterioso" as an adjective describes less the music than the musician, says Jack Goldstein. “[Neil] Tesser points out that there are few jazz innovators these days more honored than Thelonious Monk. That wasn't always the case in the past. He may have paved the way for much of what more esteemed artists - Dizzy , Bird - did, but it took quite a long time to get recognition. He didn't issue the same type of free flowing bop . He didn't play with the same kind of virtuosity. Many critics found it difficult to understand exactly what made up the Five Spot about the man and his music . "
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Milestone Records released further recordings from the Five Soot in 1984 on the album Blues Five Spot .
- ↑ a b Jack Goldstein: Review of the album. Blog Critics, May 5, 2012, accessed February 12, 2020 .
- ^ Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 243
- ↑ Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .
- ^ Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, p. 250
- ↑ Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso at Discogs
- ↑ Thelonious Monk Quartet - Misterioso (CD) at Discogs
- ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed February 1, 2020.