Thelonious Monk in 1963 in Japan
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| Label (s) | Baybridge Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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5 |
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TBS Studios Tokyo |
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Thelonious Monk 1963 in Japan is an album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made in a television studio of the broadcaster TBS in Tokyo on May 23, 1963, appeared as a long-playing record in 1977 with Baybridge Records and in later years on various labels such as Eastwind, Excelsior, Four Star, Candid and Prestige Records .
background
The music from this 1963 studio session was apparently recorded for television broadcasts for the Tokyo Broadcasting System media company after Thelonious Monk had performed in Tokyo on a tour of Japan two days earlier, documented on Columbia’s 1969 album Monk in Tokyo . With tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Frankie Dunlop, Monk explores four of his own compositions "Evidence", "Blue Monk", "Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are" and "Epistrophy", supplemented by a " somewhat ironic ”solo piano interpretation of the standard“ Just a Gigolo ”.
Track list
- Thelonious Monk 1963 in Japan (Baybridge Records ULS-6117-B)
A1 Evidence (Monk)
A2 Blue Monk (Monk)
A3 Just a Gigolo ( Irving Caesar , Julius Brammer , Leonello Casucci )
B1 Bolivar Blues (Balue Bolivar) (Monk)
B2 Epistrophy ( Kenny Clarke , Monk)
reception
Ken Dryden gave the album three stars in Allmusic and said that even if none of these tracks are better than their more famous counterparts from Monk's official releases, fans of his music will still want to take up this somewhat obscure session.
According to Thomas Fitterling, the technical quality of this studio session is far behind the otherwise high Japanese standards. “The quartet plays in the usual solo genre at a routinely high level; but in view of the excellent recordings on May 21st [ Monk in Tokyo ] this record turns out to be superfluous. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 21, 2020.
- ↑ Thelonious Monk 1963 in Japan at Discogs
- ↑ Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .