John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
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Music Reviews of Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
Music Review: Mr Ben Milano... dear, oh dear!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
In case you weren't aware, Mr Ben Milano, this site asks you for a review of the said album; not for your horribly misguided opinion of the jazz genre! I'm of the impression, after reading your "review", that you haven't even bothered listening to the album. Why oh why would you bother reviewing a jazz album if you dislike jazz?! I certainly wouldn't review a gangsta-rap album because a) I dislike gangsta-rap enough to not even listen to it; and b) I know next to nothing about gangsta rap. Please stick to offering constructive criticisms of the albums themselves (whether for or against); and leave the real reviewing to those who have actually taken the time to listen to the music.
Oh, and by the way, this album is sensational! The musical chemistry between Monk & Trane is apparent from the outset, and the much-better-than-expected sound quality enhances the listening experience ten-fold. Better late than never I say, and let's hope more forgotten classics like this surface in the not to distant future.
Music Review: the future in a note
Rating: 5 Stars
Monk is probably the most "acquired" taste in mainstream jazz. He's playing along, he likes a passage, he just stops and hangs out there for a while. For him, it's always 4 AM. So if you're new to jazz, or the concept of 4 AM, this might be a hard place to start. But to us versed in the language, this is an almost sacred recording. It is every bit as beautiful as claimed. It is two seekers, looking as early as 1957 for the land beyond cars, bars and bandstands.
I can't even get past the first track, "Monks Mood". As Coltrane steps up to play the slow, quirky line, he finishes it with a long, languid sigh of a note that foretells it all: the leaving drugs behind, the quartet with Jones, Garrison and Tyner, the showering solos, the unashamedly spiritual fire of his personal quest as he took jazz on its giant steps into the 1960's.
What he himself heard in that note we may never know, but it is there for us to listen to, and thrill to, on the first track of this wonderful CD.
Music Review: Required Jazz and All that Implies
Rating: 5 Stars
I like jazz and I can't say that I am an ardent fan of anyone in particular but I have always loved Dave Brubeck's Take Five and suppose I do like his sound the most when it comes to jazz. I am also a collector primarily of motion picture scores and soundtracks. That being said, to find these recordings of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane made way back in the fifties would blow anybody's mind. These recordings are incredible. You just don't get this stuff everyday. It was like when they rediscovered Bernard Herrmann's original tape masters to his NORTH BY NORTHWEST score. I love it. This is unbelievable stuff. This is the stuff dreams are made of. I am very familiar with Thelonious Monk and this is an emotional as well as important find and CD. He's an icon and for good reason. In the mean time I am getting more acquainted with Coltrane and this CD has had a springboard effect on my appreciation of just who he is. These recordings are raw and very genuine and just hit the spot.
Music Review: A One-Of-A-Kind Concert
Rating: 5 Stars
I first learned about this Carnegie Hall performance by the Thelonious Monk Quartet and John Coltrane on NPR and immediately knew it was a disc worth buying. It is superbly engineered - especially if one considers the recording was made in 1957. It even more remarkable that such a fantastic concert was left in a box in the Library of Congress for over 40 years.
The 9 tracks are from two concert sessions with the 9th track incomplete. It was a high point for the Monk quartet as they had been playing for several weeks at the Five Spot and had a high level of confidence and freedom going into these sessions. John Coltrane was also reaching a personal best. His entrance in the first track - Monk's Mood - following a long piano solo by Thelonious Monk is dramatic and haunting. The disc contains Monk classics like Epistrophy, Evidence and Sweet and Lovely with each track seamlessly flowing into the next. A beautiful recording that begs to be played over and over.
Music Review: Really Good Recording
Rating: 4 Stars
glad this collection of material was un-earthed because we are talking about two of the Most Creative Forces in Jazz Music History both coming into there own. Thelonious Monk at this point was hitting his Musical Zenith. John Coltrane was just getting His stride into Gear. big difference here with Monk as to when he played with Miles Davis where to me He sounded like he was green&trying to find himself.but here He shows the bursts of Musical Spark that would create His early 60's Monster run where He turned things out. Monk had a way of playing which has a Signature all onto itself.nobody I have ever heard play the Piano has that Monk tecnique like He did.coltrane was starting to find His vocing on Sax. I wonder how Coltrane's Career had have gone had He worked more with Monk since the Creative Freedom on the structure&Playing allowed him room to breath Creatively?? the thing that stands out the most about this Record is the Freedom of the Instrumentation.