Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall

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Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Live album by Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane

Publication
(s)

1957 / 2005

Label (s) Blue note

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

9

running time

51:49

occupation

production

Michael Cuscuna , TS Monk (restoration)

Studio (s)

live Carnegie Hall

chronology
Monk 'Round the World
(2004) 		Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Thelonious Monk with Steve Lacy in Philadelphia 1960
(2006)

Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall is a live album by the Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane , recorded in New York's Carnegie Hall in1957but not released until 2005.

Background of the album

The recordings come from a benefit concert on November 29, 1957 at Thanksgiving Jazz , which Kenneth Lee Karpe produced for the Morningside Community Center in Harlem . In addition to Monk and Coltrane, u. a. Billie Holiday , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles , Sonny Rollins and Chet Baker with Zoot Sims .

The recordings for Voice of America , which were not broadcast, document two sets of Monk's quartet with Coltrane during the concert, an early set with tracks 1-5 and a somewhat more relaxed set with tracks 6-9, which are not complete are preserved.

The tapes were archived in the Library of Congress , where they were kept until they were rediscovered by archivist Larry Appelbaum in 2005. The recordings have been restored by producer Michael Cuscuna with Monks' son, Thelonious Sphere Monk, Jr.

The album has significantly increased the number of documents published about the collaboration between Monk and Coltrane. In addition to this album, in addition to the studio albums Monk's Music and Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, only the live recordings Live at the Five Spot Discovery are known, which were recorded with amateur equipment at a reunion concert by Monk and Coltrane in the Cafe Five Spot in 1958 (probably by Coltrane's first wife) and released in 1993.

Album pieces

  1. Monk's Mood - 7:52
  2. Evidence - 4:41
  3. Crepuscule with Nellie - 4:26
  4. Nutty - 5:03
  5. Epistrophy - 4:29
  6. Bye-Ya - 6:31
  7. Sweet & Lovely - 9:34
  8. Blue Monk - 6:31
  9. Epistrophy (incomplete) - 2:24

reception

The recordings received critical acclaim. Newsweek magazine called the recordings the "musical equivalent of discovering Mount Everest" and Amazon called it the "ultimate definition of classical music". Shortly after it was released, the album reached the first sales rank on Amazon.com .

Rolling Stone magazine voted the album at number 8 in its 2013 list of The 100 Best Jazz Albums .

literature

  • Gabriel Solis Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall Oxford University Press: New York City 2014, ISBN 978-0199744367

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Jazz Albums . Retrieved November 16, 2016.