Two Hours with Thelonious
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| Studio album by Thelonious Monk | ||||
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LP, CD |
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16 |
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Olympia, Paris and Milan |
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Two Hours with Thelonious (European Concerts by Thelonious Monk) is a two-part album by Thelonious Monk . The recordings, which were made at the pianist's concerts on April 18 and 21, 1961 at Olympia (Paris) and at the Teatro Lirico in Milan, appeared on two long-playing records on Riverside Records in 1963 . The concert in Milan first appeared individually as Monk in Italy (Riverside RM 443), the Paris concert in 1965 as Monk in France (RM 491).
background
These recordings of Thelonious Monk were released by Riverside Records after signing his record deal with Columbia Records . That led to this set of two LPs, which contains long runs of Monk's standard repertoire at concerts in Milan and Paris. The Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse , John Ore and Frankie Dunlop had been in existence for a year when they went on their first European tour in the spring of 1961, wrote Thomas Fitterling. In Paris, it performed at the popular “ Olympia ; the recording comes from the French radio, which explains the mono recording. ”The Monk Quartet was enthusiastically celebrated at the time, wrote the author, and many critics saw it as the spearhead of jazz development, which is relativized in retrospect.
Track list
- Thelonious Monk - Two Hours with Thelonious (European Concerts by Thelonious Monk) (Riverside Records - RS 9460/9461)
A1 Epistrophy (Opening Theme) 6:16
A2 I Mean You 10:59
A3 Jackie-Ing (No. 1) 10:08
A4 Body and Soul (Heyman, Eyton, Green, Sour) 4:48
B1 Off Minor 11:39
B2 April in Paris ( Vernon Duke , EY Harburg ) 1:20
B3 Rythm-A-Ning (No. 1) 10:34
B4 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You ( George Bassman , Ned Washington ) 8 : 32
C1 Milan Introduction and ... Jackie-Ing (No. 2) 4:50
C2 Straight No Chaser 8:59
C3 Bemsha Swing 6:05
C4 Just a Gigolo ( Irving Caesar , Julius Brammer , Leonello Casucci ) 1:41
C5 Hackensack 9:45
D1 Well You Needn't 11:27
D2 San Francisco Holiday 5:57
D3 Rythm-A-Ning (No. 2) 5:47
D4 Crepuscule with Nellie 2:49
D5 Epistrophy (Closing Theme) 4:58
- All other compositions are by Thelonious Monk.
reception
Scott Yanow , who rated the album 4½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic , said: “While the leader / pianist's solos are excellent and tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse is in good shape, the contributions from bassist John Ore and drummer Frankie sound Dunlop is pretty routine (Ore just goes on his solos) and unnecessary. ”All of the material was previously recorded in more definitive versions, the author says, but this long-out-of-print two-CD set is still quite entertaining, if not too memorable .
According to Thomas Fitterling, the rhythmic conception of the quartet was no longer of the tension that the emotional listener would expect. “If you compare this rhythm group of this and the following Monk quartets with the rhythm team of 5 by Monk by 5 , Brilliant Corners and In Orbit or even with the rhythm groups of the sixties by John Coltrane or Miles Davis , a certain impoverishment must be observed . “At the Milan concert the atmosphere was a little less relaxed, but the music seemed more concentrated and the rhythm section was a bit more spacious. "But the recordings in Milan also convey the impression of a - quite positive - safeguarding of ownership at the highest level of performance at the time of the greatest public acceptance."
Documented concert recordings from Monk's European tour in 1961
- Monk Around the World Recordings from Monterey, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm and other European cities (Label: Thelonious TMF9323 [CD]) -
- Live in Amsterdam : Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Holland, April 15, 1961. (Musica Jazz / Magnetic)
- Live in Amsterdam, May 1961 - Bussum, April 1961 : TV recording, Bussum, Netherlands, April 15, 1961. (Jazz Archive (Du) NJA1401)
- Quartet 1961 European Tour, Vol. 1 : Live Casino, Bern, May 10, 1961. (Ingo (It) 5)
- In Stockholm : Konserthuset, Stockholm, May 16, 1961. (Dragon (Swd) DRLP151 / 152)
- Monk in Copenhagen : Odd Fellow Palaet, Copenhagen, May 17, 1961. (Storyville (Dan) STCD8283 [CD])
- Thelonious Monk Quartet : Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, May 20, 1961. (Netherlands Jazz Archive (Du) NJA1401 [CD])
- Thelonious Monk Quartet / Martial Solal Trio : Live Deutscher Jazz Salon , Berlin, May 22, 1961. (WDR / Jazzline (G) N77009 [CD])
Web links
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 13, 2020.
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 13, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved February 13, 2020.
- ↑ a b Thomas Fitterling: Thelonious Monk. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 1987, ISBN 3-923657-14-5 .
- ↑ Thelonious Monk - Two Hours with Thelonious (European Concerts by Thelonious Monk) at Discogs