Monk (album)

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monk
Studio album by Thelonious Monk

Publication
(s)

1965

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

7/10

running time

45:34

occupation
  • Piano: Thelonious Monk

production

Teo Macero

Studio (s)

new York

chronology
It's Monk's Time
(1964) 		monk Solo Monk
(1965)
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Monk (also MONK. ) Is an album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made in New York's Columbia Studio on March 9th and October 6th, 7th and 8th, 1964, were released in 1965 as a long-playing record and in 2002 as a compact disc with Columbia Records, expanded by three titles .

background

Monk contained various original compositions by the pianist as well as a number of jazz standards such as “ April in Paris ”. The title "Pannonica" pays homage to the jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter ; “Teo” was again a homage to the producer of the album, Teo Macero . The album cover is a photo of Monk taken by W. Eugene Smith in 1959 . Between 1957 and 1965 Monk and other prominent New York jazz musicians rehearsed in the house of the photographer nicknamed "The Jazz Loft".

On the track "Teo" (the only track from March 1964) played bassist Butch Warren , who was replaced in the later sessions in October 1964 by Larry Gales . (The recording was from the fourth and final recording session of the LP It's Monk's Time .)

Track list

Original LP

  • Monk: Monk . (Columbia - CS 9091, CL 2291 (mono version))

A1 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (G. Gershwin, G. Kahn, I. Gershwin) 4:35
A2 April in Paris (Harburg, Duke) 7:52
A3 That Old Man 4:55
A4 (Just One Way To Say) I Love You (I. Berlin) 6:45

B1 Just You, Just Me (Greer, Klages) 8:42
B2 Pannonica (Monk) 7:21
B3 Teo (Monk) 5:24

CD edition

  • Thelonious Monk - Monk. (Columbia - CK 86564, Legacy - CK 86564)
  1. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) ( George Gershwin , Gus Kahn , Ira Gershwin ) 4:37
  2. April in Paris (Take 6) ( EY Harburg , Vernon Duke ) 7:59
  3. Children's Song (That Old Man) (Thelonious Monk) 4:55
  4. I Love You (Sweetheart of All My Dreams) ( Irving Berlin ) 6:44
  5. Just You, Just Me ( Jesse Greer , Raymond Klages ) 8:42
  6. Pannonica (Re-take 2) (Thelonious Monk) 9:02
  7. Teo (Thelonious Monk) 5:25
  8. April in Paris (Take 1) (EY Harburg, Vernon Duke) 8:20
  9. Pannonica (Take 2) Monk) 6:42
  10. Medley: Just You, Just Me / Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away) 5:57

occupation

  • Thelonious Monk Quartet: Charlie Rouse (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Butch Warren (b) Ben Riley (dr): Teo - March 9, 1964
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet: Charlie Rouse (ts), Thelonious Monk (p), Larry Gales (b), Ben Riley (dr): Just you, Just Me, Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (quartet); I Love You Sweetheart of All My Dreams (Monk Solo) - October 6, 1964
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet: The T Old Man - October 7, 1964
  • Thelonious Monk Quartet: Pannonnice , Pannonica (retake 2), Just You, Just Me , April in Paris (2 versions)

reception

Scott Yanow said in Allmusic , “Surprisingly, only two of the songs ('Pannonica' and 'Teo') are his originals, but he's reinventing the obscure 'nursery rhyme', 'Just You, Just Me' and 'April in Paris' like that that they sound as if he wrote them! This set is highly recommended to Monk fans and is just further proof that he has never made an unworthy recording. "

According to Thomas Fitterling, “relative concilience and elegance” characterize this album. Larry Gales, who has replaced Butch Warren on bass, promises "to grow beyond the previous bassist ideal of the strictly" walking "timekeeper." The author quotes from a contemporary edition of Down Beat :

“ Monk moves on familiar ground, and we recognize in him an old friend who is serious about his humor, whose unpredictability has become predictable, and who has made himself comfortable in his homelessness. "

Fitterling's highlights include the “outstanding” first recording of the Monk composition “Pannonica” and “Teo”, a “succinctly simple ABA composition which is logical in its sequence”. In his opinion, the density and compactness made "Teo" the best piece on the album, with theme , tenor and piano solo, the theme - "and no superfluous phrase ."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judy Gelman Myers: W. Eugene Smith's Time in The Jazz Loft in Pop Photo
  2. ↑ a b c d Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .
  3. ↑ Monk at Discogs
  4. ↑ Moink at Discogs
  5. ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Accessed February 1, 2020.